Out In Left Field

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Autism pseudoscience update

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It's been a busy month for me in the world of autism pseudoscience. I've got one recent publication relating to one variety of auti...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Unreliable speech? “So they tell me, and they certainly speak truth, for my Lady says the same”

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Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . The Uniquely Human podcasts I blogged about below have reminded me of one of my favorite sec...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

New takes on apraxia, miracles, presuming competence et al. from S2C proponents

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The perusal of Prizant’s website that inspired my last post also led me to his Uniquely Human Podcast . As I mentioned, at least four of th...
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 ...
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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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