Facilitated Communication

Academic Search Elite Title: Facilitated communication in America: Eight years and counting. Subject(s): FACILITATED communication -- History; AUTISTIC children -- Education Source: Skeptic, 1998, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p64, 8p, 1bw IN THE LATE 1980S AN AMERICAN professor of education named Douglas Biklen went to Australia to lecture on mainstreaming disabled children into regular schools. While there he came across a fascinating discovery called Facilitated Communication (FC). FC supposedly enables nonverbal autistic children to speak by "typing" …

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