Simon Paynton:

But it has to be facilitated to some extent – someone has to be there to interpret and read out loud what someone is pointing to.

Ah, but I’m not facilitating your communication by reading your post.

And you’re not facilitating my communication by reading my post.

We’re both conveying, exchanging, and absorbing each o…[Read more]

But it has to be facilitated to some extent – someone has to be there to interpret and read out loud what someone is pointing to.

If they are doing it themselves it is not FC.

If somebody’s pushing somebody’s elbow as they type at a keyboard, or point to letters, then obviously that’s a pointless exercise.  But if they’re doing it themselves, it opens up communication to an otherwise non-verbal person.

Facilitated Communication sits at the intersection of hope, identity, and perceived injustice, which makes it unusually resistant to evidence. When you watch FC in action, it can be convincing. The person appears to be communicating fluently, even sometimes at a level far beyond what anyone expected. The problem is that this impression is exactly…[Read more]