Out In Left Field

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Can facilitator influence be reduced to co-construction of meaning?

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Sometimes it seems there are as many FC-defending tactics as there are FC proponents. One such tactic is to conflate facilitator influence w...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Are autism rates really going up? And why are there so few moderately autistic kids?

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It has recently occurred to me that there may be a connection between: autism rates appearing to keep rising moderate autism appearing to be...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Might non-speaking individuals with autism be brilliant?

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommuniction.org).                      What if they’ve been wrong, about every single one of them? What if they...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Highlights from this month’s ASHA conference

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A couple of weeks ago, before the Thanksgiving festivities, I went up to Boston for the American Speech Language Hearing Association Conven...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Another Side Effect of FC: Alternative Facts

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). Besides the communication rights violations, opportunity costs, and false abuse allegation...
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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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