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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