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Telepathy Tapes Review, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 6/4/25 Telepathy Tapes Review, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 6/4/25

Mixing Misinformation with Magical Thinking: Thoughts about the Telepathy Tapes (Episode 8)

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FC in the Media, Telepathy Tapes Review Janyce Boynton 2/5/25 FC in the Media, Telepathy Tapes Review Janyce Boynton 2/5/25

Proving Facilitator Authorship in FC/RPM messages: Thoughts About the Telepathy Tapes (Episode 3)

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Facilitated Communication, Spellers Method, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 8/14/24 Facilitated Communication, Spellers Method, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 8/14/24

What Forbes Contributor Steven Aquino Forgot to Mention About the Spellers Method

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FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate Janyce Boynton 4/24/24 FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate Janyce Boynton 4/24/24

Questions to ask facilitators and yourself while observing FC/S2C/RPM sessions

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Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/20/24 Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/20/24

Facilitated messages attributed to different people show distinctive styles, but this fails to rule out complete facilitator control

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Spelling to Communicate, Validation Testing, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 2/21/24 Spelling to Communicate, Validation Testing, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 2/21/24

Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part II

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Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 7/19/23 Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 7/19/23

Does a subgroup of minimally-speaking autistic individuals have close-to-normal comprehension skills? A critique of Belmonte et al., 2013

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Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/10/23 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/10/23

A final post on autism-related challenges that are supposed to explain away our concerns about FC: motor control, echolalia, and word retrieval

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Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 4/26/23 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 4/26/23

Do facilitated individuals have motor difficulties that explain away our concerns about FC? Part II

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Facilitated Communication, Movie Review, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 4/19/23 Facilitated Communication, Movie Review, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 4/19/23

Does “Inside the Edge” Live Up to its Claims that FC Leads to Independence?

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Spelling to Communicate, FC in Schools, Disability Rights, FC and the Legal System Janyce Boynton 2/22/23 Spelling to Communicate, FC in Schools, Disability Rights, FC and the Legal System Janyce Boynton 2/22/23

What Schools Can Learn about S2C from the Lower Merion School District

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Facilitated Communication, Video Critique, Facilitator Cues Janyce Boynton 2/8/23 Facilitated Communication, Video Critique, Facilitator Cues Janyce Boynton 2/8/23

Facilitation: In a Completely Different Zone

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Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in Schools, FC and the Legal System Katharine Beals 9/28/22 Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in Schools, FC and the Legal System Katharine Beals 9/28/22

Science prevails in another victory for a Pennsylvania school district

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Movie Review, FC in the Media, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 8/17/22 Movie Review, FC in the Media, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 8/17/22

Coping with RPM: Review of “Far From the Tree”

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FC in the Media, FC in Schools, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 7/27/22 FC in the Media, FC in Schools, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 7/27/22

Critical Questions the CBS LA Reporters Apparently Forgot to Ask About FC

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Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Conferences and Webinars Janyce Boynton 7/16/22 Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Conferences and Webinars Janyce Boynton 7/16/22

Supplement to the “Anatomy of Facilitated Communication” SkeptiCal Talk

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FC in the Media, FC in Schools, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 5/18/22 FC in the Media, FC in Schools, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Janyce Boynton 5/18/22

FC/S2C/RPM: Selling the Illusion

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Video Critique, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 5/4/22 Video Critique, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Janyce Boynton 5/4/22

Review of Deej Q&A

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Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 4/13/22 Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 4/13/22

Review of A Passion to Believe: Autism and the Facilitated Communication Phenomenon

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Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Effects of Facilitation Janyce Boynton 3/23/22 Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Effects of Facilitation Janyce Boynton 3/23/22

Do “Problematic Behaviors” Vanish with Facilitated Communication?

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