@katharinebeals
Author of "Students with Autism" and "Cutting-Edge Language and Literacy Tools for Students on the Autism Spectrum." Designer of the SentenceWeaver: interactive grammar instruction for students with autism. Adjunct at Temple, Drexel, and Penn.
"Cardinal essentially sabotaged their goal of developing a protocol that “controlled for variables that could threaten the study’s validity” by giving facilitators & the people documenting the facilitated messages (called recorders) in the study access to the word list being used for test stimuli."
🆕 Hemsley, B., Bryant, L., & Beals, K. (2026). Book Review: #GLP: Supporting Autistic and Neurodivergent Children with Natural Language Acquisition by Alison Battye. CLTT, doi.org/10.1177/0265... @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
"Despite claiming in their study that they “blinded” facilitators from the test stimuli, Cardinal et al. gave facilitators open access to the word list used in the testing & essentially sabotaged their own stated goal of “controlling for variables” & keeping facilitators “blind.”
scienceofhumanwriting.substack.com/p/how-to-tea...
Catherine Johnson on How to teach students to write better than a robot, and why
scienceofhumanwriting.substack.com/p/how-to-tea...
"The HoloBoard, the HoloLens, the HoloGaze, the LetterBox: all of it rings so hollow. & it’s painful to think of how all the financial & intellectual capital that went into these projects might have been spent on to improve, rather than to diminish, the fragile lives of minimal speakers w/ autism."
"We can only wonder what the excluded data would have suggested to their readers about language and literacy skills in non-speaking autism"
"It’s the actions ppl take after they access scientific evidence that counts the most. Do they go deeper into their belief system or do they follow the science? Do they take facilitator claims on face value? Or do they set up authorship testing before implementing the program?"
A responsible article on quackery in #autism in the Philadelphia Inquirer!
www.inquirer.com/.../autism-t....
With links to Janyce Boynton's page for parents on our website-- www.facilitatedcommunication.org
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/parents
I’m not sure what this extremely slow letter selection process means, but it isn’t good news for those who wish to make claims about intact language comprehension and literacy in S2C-ed individuals.
Can Jaswal's "LetterBoxes" substitute for letter boards?
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-jas...
In which Adam extending a finger to God's extended finger is compared with Dan Bergmann extending a finger to Soma Mukhopadhyay's letterboard.
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I suspect someone high up may have a personal stake in this.
And that's very alarming.
The only time the HoloBoard typing was definitively unprompted was when it occurred in solo mode. Only 5 kids could do that & all they did was spell short answers when asked to do so (name, home city, parents’ names, favorite movie, age).
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-jas...
Good article but she might have credited the website from which she took her image.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
www.facilitatedcommunication.org
"instead of steering those people in the direction of reliably controlled methods and techniques to address the complex communication needs of their clients and loved ones, she sends them on a wild goose chase with the promise of a magical solution to real world problems."
Autism does not involve a "deranged relationship with one's body."
My moderately autistic son, who can express all his thoughts thru writing, will never be published by the NYTimes. His level of writing is consistent with his diagnosis, and w/ the tremendous language interventions he received.
Autism does not involve a "deranged relationship with one's body."
My moderately autistic son, who can express all his thoughts thru writing, will never be published by the NYTimes. His level of writing is consistent with his diagnosis, and w/ the tremendous language interventions he received.
This is what it looks like when J. types:
www.tiktok.com/@daily_writi...
It's out!
Despite all the pressure from self-styled #autism #neurodiversity advocates!
And open access, no less! You can access the whole article on this link
This stuff should NOT be controversial!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A journalist strives for "balance", and makes yet another reference to those "100 studies" that supposedly find evidence for FC/RPM/S2C.
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/jeffers...
"Since these are experiments on humans, has UVA’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved the testing? And does the testing include authorship testing for FC/S2C/RPM, since we already know that these are facilitator-dependent techniques?"
Review of Joe Rogan's interview with Telepathy Tapes host Ky Dickens: the stuff of conspiracy theories, fantasy, and urban legends (Part 4)
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/review-...
Barense “believes that many autistic ppl who don’t speak may be hindered not by problems of intellect but motor control... She doesn’t seem to be aware of the Chen et al. study and what it says about how problems of with motor control in non-speakers correlate with comprehension deficits."
