Out In Left Field

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Facilitated messages attributed to different people show distinctive styles, but this fails to rule out complete facilitator control

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). I got so distracted with other pro-FC developments that have emerged since last August—Ang...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Life lessons from programming

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Your instructions must be crystal clear, not omit any steps, and anticipate all possible scenarios. If something goes awry, there’s always a...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Illusions of literacy in nonspeaking autistic people: a response to Jaswal et al. 2024

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). Do minimally-speaking autistic individuals have literacy skills? You might assess this by ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

From proto-syntax to actual syntax

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Many minimally verbal, severe-to-moderately autistic individuals are able to pick up, with little to no instruction, what we might call “pro...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part II

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). This post continues my critique of Jennifer  Binder Le-Pape’s recent blog post on the offi...
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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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