Monday, October 21, 2024

Just out: journalist Zaid Jilani's piece on autism pseudo-science!

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Check out this fantastic new piece by Zaid Jilani investigating the latest variants of autism FC pseudoscience. Zaid Jilani, to my knowledg...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

And open letter to practitioners of speech therapy based on "Natural Language Processing"/"Gestalt Language Processing" principles

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Suppose I told you that I’ve been working for decades with a different population of language learners: people I’ve identified as "mus...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

A linguist's take on Gestalt Language Processing

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 Just out today: A Linguist’s Take on Blanc’s Proposition of Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition: An Implausible Th...
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...