Out In Left Field

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Back to School Edition: At What Point Do Accommodations Start Resembling Facilitated Communication?

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Within local autism politics, I’ve become aware of an alliance between parents whose children are subjected to variants of facilitated commu...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Should professors embrace ChatGPT and other LLMs?

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Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, thinks we should. In fact, he requires it, at least for certain...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

How might touch reduce the cognitive load of FCed typers?

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Proponents of facilitated communication—specifically, of the classic, touch-based variant of FC—have come up with all sorts of reasons for w...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Research on camouflaging in autism is built on sand

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 A recent article, entitled  Camouflaging in autism: A systematic review , reviews 29 studies that examine the purported tendency among auti...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Right-brained science: the myth of the finches

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Behold Albert Einstein: not the tidy young patent clerk, working through his most groundbreaking theories, but the scraggly eccentric of his...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Spellers but not Readers? Do facilitated individuals ever read books?

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org .) Let’s begin with an authorship-to-readership syllogism: For a message to be authored by so...
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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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