Friday, January 27, 2023

Upcoming virtual conference on the use of facilitated communication in individuals with autism!

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At Drexel University, this Thursday and next Thursday evenings. Six speakers bring a variety of expertise to cover different facets of the u...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Where is AI where we really need it?

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With the help of my readers, I've found out about several typos in my recent books that went undetected by me, my editors, and my early...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Is there really no Theory of Mind deficit in autism? Part V: Do Theory of Mind tests fail to predict understanding of goals and desires?

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Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ).  In my last four posts, I critiqued the arguments in Gernsbacher and Yergeau’s 2019 article ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Metaphors in autism--a failure of imagination?

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As I've noted elsewhere , metaphors proliferate in the typed output that is extracted from autistic individuals via facilitated communic...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Special Needs Kids and the Common Core Straitjacket

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Here's an update of an old post, based on an article I published in the Atlantic, The Common Core is Tough on Kids with Special Needs , ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Best students, best graduates, and/or neurodiversity: what should colleges be looking for?

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The elimination or downplaying by more and more colleges of applicant SAT scores, along with a  recent article on why that's a bad idea...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

Why would a promoter of free-range childhood promote coercive quackery for society’s most vulnerable children?

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  In a   recent article   at the New York Post, “ free range kids ” proponent Lenore Skenazy inadvertently promotes what all the available e...