Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hand Puppet, Facilitated Communication, Rosemary Crossley
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Facilitated communication was developed initially by rosemary crossley in australia to help autistic children communicate, by providing them with physical and emotional support, allowing them to type things out on a keyboard. You have opened up doors for them, and they are now able to communicate. Douglas biklen has been a major champion of it in north america. This has been questioned as to if it is really effective, let alone if it is the children communicating, and not the facilitators. Betsy wheaton was a young girl who was working with a facilitator, and through this communication, she accused everyone in her family of sexual abuse. On the other hand, if they weren"t abusing her, then she was being seriously maltreated. There is then the issue of first party vs third party evidence and accusation. This is what he was very worried about.
