Out In Left Field

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Why apraxia can’t explain away the need for physical touch, held-up letterboards, or hovering prompters

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). The most helpful comments we receive on this blog are ones that point us to specific artic...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Falling for Happiness Falls: Is it too much to ask we overcome our skepticism and just believe?

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). In Happiness Falls , a new book by Angie Kim, a 20-year-old college student, home fo...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Spellers but not Readers--update re peripheral vision

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(A follow-up to an earlier post ). I've just encountered another claim about how facilitated individuals read--this one in reference to ...
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...
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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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