Out In Left Field

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

My single most controversial slide at ASHA

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Seen by thousands of people in multiple overflow rooms at the Seattle Convention Center, reposted all over social media, and disparaged by s...
Monday, November 18, 2024

In which Vikram Jaswal fails to establish the authenticity of S2C for non-speakers

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 Cross-posted at facilitatedcommunication.org . In a recent episode of Barry Prizant’s Uniquely Human podcast entitled “Establishing the Au...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Actually this is mostly about you—and (indirectly) about FC

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 (Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org) The 2021 biopic This is Not About Me , recently became available for a small rental fee on Y...
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...
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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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