PSYC 3230 Lecture Notes - Facilitated Communication
31 Jan 2013
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Designed to assist people with autism to communicate. Autistic people point towards letters to spell out words while a facilitator holds their hand for stabilization. That autistic people don"t understand most of what is being said. Skeptics say that the facilitators are leading the autistic person to choose certain letters and are communicating for them. When the autistic person is asked to spell something that the facilitator cannot see, the results are gibberish. Studies determine that the communications come unwittingly from the facilitator. It has been deemed invalid and has been deemed unethical This documentary is about 15 years old and fc is no longer used in many areas (including ontario) Once something has been brought into use, it is difficult to change beliefs about it.
