Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Grit, revisited

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This past weekend at the Festival of Education in Potomac, Maryland, I had the pleasure of attending  David Steiner 's fascinating and h...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Social Deficits Correlate with Motor Deficits: Commentary on some recent “research” cited by the pro-FC organization United for Communication Choice.

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommuniction.org .) In a recent post, I critiqued the curious “facts” listed on United for Communication Choice...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

From Frankenstein to Facilitated Communication

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What do Frankenstein and Facilitated Communication have in common? Both involve miraculous stories of word learning.  In one case you have a...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

A critique of United for Communication Choice’s “facts” page

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 Cross posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . I recently stumbled upon the “facts” page of the pro-FC organization United For Communicatio...
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...