Thursday, July 4, 2024

Recent findings about language comprehension in minimal speakers with autism

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). A recent paper on language in autism has some interesting implications for facilitated...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Should Schools Dedicate Time to Grit and Growth Mindset?

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 Just out in Skeptical Inquirer !
Friday, June 14, 2024

On Chalk & Talk--Math and Autism with Anna Stokke

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 In which we discuss Direct Instruction, Precision Teaching and--of course!--math instruction meets facilitated communication: https://...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Has AI gotten any better at reading since 2019?

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  …2019 being the year that Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis published   Rebooting AI   and discussed the inability of AI to handle passages lik...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Some possible revelations on what goes on in facilitators’ heads when they facilitate big projects

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org .) In this post, I return to one of the news stories I included in my FC news roundup from two...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

19th Century English Vocabulary

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Notes from the last decade (or so) of reading 19 th  century novels (a follow-up to my earlier post on syntax) … with a special focus on ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

News Roundup, May 2022 to April, 2024: Uncritical reports of S2C and RPM breakthroughs

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ) It’s been a busy two years for irresponsible, pro-FC reporting by the media, which means ou...