Facilitated Communication
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" words when they are assisted by a teacher who holds on to their hand or arm to help guide their fingers over a keyboard. Biklen was at first skeptical of this unbelievable breakthrough, but after seeing a live demonstration he became convinced that it was a major development in the disability field. Shortly thereafter, he published an article on his discovery and started training thousands of people interested in the new technique at Syracuse University. So goes the official version of Biklen's discovery of FC repeated in hundreds of news stories over the past eight years. These articles covered everything from the amazing discovery of FC in the early 1990s to Biklen's continued
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Approximate Word count = 2589
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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