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The purpose of these critiques is to educate people about facilitator cues in Facilitated Communication (FC), Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), Spelling to Communicate (S2C), and their variants. The clips used for these critiques are from pro-FC videos, webinars, and movies. While it is not possible to determine an individual’s language and academic skills from a video, it is possible to detect physical, visual, and auditory cues from facilitators that appear to influence letter selection. Criticisms are directed toward FC as a technique, not those being subjected to its use.
Why does Soma Mukhopadhyay (inventor of Rapid Prompting Method) have her student trapped in a corner?
As Sara and her client, Ben Breaux, use Facilitated Communication to discuss gun rights, do the letters/words she calls out match where Ben touched the board?
In this video, a King5 reporter covers a news story about a family who believes their special needs student is being discriminated against by a school system who will not allow S2C. The reporter included a brief statement by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), but did he go far enough in explaining why ASHA opposes its use?
In this video, we look at a clip from the documercial "Spellers" where Dawnmarie Gaivin holds a plastic stencil letter board in the air for her client, Aydan, to spell out "Great life is ahead." But, who is controlling the communication tools?
In this video, we analyze a spelling session from a video called "Rachel Tells it All: Autism 101 Explained by an Autistic Advocate." During this session, a facilitator holds a plastic letter board in the air while Rachel points to it. But, are the letter selections free from facilitator influence and control?
Ben Breaux and his facilitator, Sara, answer questions in an Autism Society of America interview using Facilitated Communication, but do the letters/words Sara calls out match where Ben touched the board?
Ben Breaux and his facilitator, Sara, use Facilitated Communication to type out “Yes, I Love Facebook,” do the letters/words Sara calls out match where Ben touched the board?
In this video, we explore the Facilitated Communication Institute of Syracuse University's claims of typing that is "free from physical touch," as depicted in their documentary "Inside the Edge: A Journey to Using Speech Through Typing."