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" …showed first 75 words of 2599 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2599 total…facilitated communication. Some scientists and psychologists question its’ factuality suggesting that the findings of controlled, as opposed to qualitative, studies have been consistently negative, indicating that FC is neither reliably replicable nor valid when produced. In each of these articles, there have been some argued, yet proven points about facilitated communication, and as we progress in our years to come of health science, scientists continue to prove and help validate the effectiveness of facilitated communication.