Friday, July 28, 2023

Hot off the presses: my critique of FC on Index on Censorship

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A PRACTITIONER SITS WITH a child at a table in the corner of a room. She prompts him continually. The child tries to escape but he’s totally...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Does a subgroup of minimally-speaking autistic individuals have close-to-normal comprehension skills?

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Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . One of the pro-FC individuals platformed at last January’s NIH-sponsored webinar on Minimall...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Going on automatic: should technology supplant penmanship, composition, and translation?

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And should ChatGPT supplant (parts of) the writing process?  And should Google translate supplant foreign language instruction?  To what ext...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Drexel talk on autism basics

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 Now on Drexel's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgJOo7r0gc
Monday, July 10, 2023

What is "independent typing"?

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A commenter on the FacilitationCommunication.org blog just asked us to address the question of individuals who start out with some form of ...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

How “non-speaking” and those who call themselves “non-speakers” muddy the waters in facilitated communication

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A number of people in the autism-FC universe describe themselves, at least to some extent, as non-speaking. This may sound totally unsurpris...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Does progressive education have to mean watered down math?

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One of the most common criticisms of "progressive math", aka "reform math", is that the math itself is highly watered do...