Scamming Autistic People: Exposing Facilitated Communication
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Published 2022-10-20
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Resources and Further Reading:
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17489539.2012.…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8441353/
archive.org/details/PrisonersofSilence
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/a-magician-c…
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www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/why-does-joi…
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/what-is-join…
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/is-eye-conta…
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/from-eye-tra…
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/aba-vs-fc-wh…
www.amazon.com/Cutting-Edge-Language-Literacy-Stud…
www.amazon.com/Students-Autism-language-literacy-a…
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00:00 Introduction
00:57 What is Facilitated Communication?
01:55 What are the conditions for which facilitated communication is used?
02:25 Janyce as a facilitator
03:22 Did you work with some of these autistic people?
04:00 Janyce's journey from facilitator to activist
10:00 How did you discover you were deceiving yourself?
20:03 Are there people in the field who are knowingly taking advantage of autistic people?
26:02 Could this method have any benefits?
28:18 How is FC still a thing? How can its organisations get away with it?
31:51 Do we know what part of the brain affects speech in autistic people?
33:44 Is there a science-based method to help non-verbal autistic people to communicate?
34:53 What are the ways we can identify FC?
36:10 The other names of facilitated communication
40:06 What could be the the motives behind Facilitators?
41:59 Janyce's activism
43:54 How to get in touch with Janyce
All Comments (12)
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Always test before “being wishfully thinking” that FC works. Examples of good test are easy to find, and can rule out the influence of the facilitator(s).
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Anyone read the recent published papers about the relationship between autism and pfas toxicity? It’s stark and frankly terrifying..
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How do spellers learn how to spell? Would they teach the students spelling first before transitioning to FC?
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This is good information.. Thanks Mr Rationable 🙌
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Good episode, Abhijit! I would very much love to see at least one of these pseudosciences be proven not pseudo after all, but my wishes have no bearing on reality. FC is a good example of one that could be so beneficial if it were true, but as Boynton notes here, the evidence is very much against. Thank you both for this interview.
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Scam my son you'll be sorry
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Easy solution. Maybe switch communicators. Maybe 7 telecommunicator for 1 disabled person and if they all get the same answer. Then perhaps it works
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How can it be a scam when the speller ends up independently typing and says that it was their words all along??? So many self-advocates out there who independently type as a result of methods like facilitated communication.
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The documentaries assertion that "facilitators are just interpreting the autist's perceptions for themselves in a way akin to palm reading" is a gross one. It reflects the biases of the documentary maker more than anything else.
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I skipped to the part where she promotes ABA and immediately clicked off. Maybe you mention it in the video, but do you consider AAC a problematic form of facilitated communication? Because I think it’s really fucked up to withhold that type of technology
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Look.. some of it is very real.. some isn’t.. when the facilitator must guide the hand it’s fake.. when they can point on their own and press it’s real.. but it’s not 100% crap.. it’s patient dependent
