Out In Left Field

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Mysterious disappearances in the world of FC: What does it take to sustain the illusion?

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Cross posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . A couple of weeks ago, Autism Science Foundation founder Alison Singer posted on Twitte...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Two unsung heroes of higher-level thinking

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  Every year when teaching my Autism, Language and Resaoning class at Penn, I have another chance to delve into cognitive science. And each ...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Word prediction on steriods and the authorship questions it raises

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I've been thinking lately about the future of word prediction (and phrase and sentence prediction). We’re at a point now where, without ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

The NIH falls for FC: How did this happen and is it reversible?

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Some six weeks ago, the National Institutes of Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD) sponsored a conference entitled “Minimally Verba...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Another opportunity lost to vague language

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If you want to legislate reform, you need to be extremely specific about what must change. Any vagueness in your language will inevitably on...
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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Your children are not your children

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  Your children are not your children.    ... You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

What authorship tests have shown us about RPM and S2C

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ) For outside observers, possibly the biggest problem with Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) and Sp...
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Katharine Beals
Katharine Beals, PhD, is the author of "Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School" (Shambhala/Trumpeter) Katharine is an educator and the mother of three left-brain children. She has taught math, computer science, social studies, expository writing, linguistics, and English as a second language to students of all ages, both in the U.S. and overseas. She is also the architect of the GrammarTrainer, a linguistic software program for language impaired children. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and an adjunct professor at the Drexel University School of Education.
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