Out In Left Field

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Autism and Abstract Thinking

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One of the assumptions commonly made about autistic people is that they tend to be "concrete thinkers."  Since the mild/Asperger...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Early Works by Barry Prizant: Laying the groundwork for disbelief in FC

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). Reading up on another autism pseudoscience, “gestalt language processing,” has taken me to ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Tell Them It’s Not Hate Speech: FC, facilitator crimes, and the ethically compromised world of disability studies

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(Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ). Shortly after Netflix released it, just a few weeks ago, the latest facilitated communicati...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Recapping some reasons why language is impaired in autism—and why degree of impairment correlates with autism severity

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  …With some implications for FC. [Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org ]. For infants to pick up language, they need to tune into ...
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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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