2024 Year in Review
2024 was a busy year for FC/S2C/RPM practitioners. Alas, none of them provided us with reliably controlled evidence to prove their claims of independent communication. Maybe next year?
In any event, thank you to those of you who sent us links to FC-related events, asked questions, and provided feedback. We covered topics ranging from authorship to FC/S2C/RPM in the legal system.
In case you missed them, here are links to our 2024 blog posts:
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Facilitator Cueing and Control
Can facilitators NOT cue their clients, even if they wanted to? (Hint: It’s not likely)
How Effectively does the Ideomotor Response Explain Cueing in Facilitated Communication? - Part 1
How Effectively does the Ideomotor Response Explain Cueing in Facilitated Communication? - Part 2
Unreliable speech? “So they tell me, and they certainly speak truth, for my Lady says the same”
FC/S2C/RPM and the Legal System
FC/S2C/RPM in the Media
Actually this is mostly about you—and (indirectly) about FC
A psychologist overlooks the science and a journalist, the full story
Do proponents mean “Ask Me Anything” about spelling (aka FC)?
Falling for Happiness Falls: Is it too much to ask we overcome our skepticism and just believe?
News Roundup, May 2022 to April, 2024: Uncritical reports of S2C and RPM breakthroughs
RFK Jr. and FC-Adjacent Beliefs: from chelation to Planet X to calculus in a day
Some possible revelations on what goes on in facilitators’ heads when they facilitate big projects
Thoughts about “Tell Them You Love Me,” Anna Stubblefield, and FC/S2C/RPM
What Forbes Contributor Steven Aquino Forgot to Mention about the Spellers Method
What isn’t new: Credulous reporters promoting FC/S2C/RPM
What Reporter Natalie Beneviat from Trib Live forgot to mention about RPM
History of FC/S2C/RPM
A long history of derision and embarrassment for Syracuse University’s support of FC
Announcing a new page at FacilitatedCommunication.org: Organizations Supporting FC
Announcing a second new page at FacilitatedCommunication.org: Evidence-Based Practitioners Using FC
FC/S2C/RPM and False Allegations of Abuse
Has FC changed since the early 1990s? Part 2
Reaction to a 1994 Article I Wrote about my Experiences with FC
Response to Reader Question: Has FC changed since the early 1990s? - Part 1
The “evolution” of FC: Making FC look more convincing
Literature Reviews
Does Bernardi and Tuzzi’s 2011 Analysis of FC Prove…Anything?
Ethical Issues Related to FC Then and Now: Review of Dayan and Minnes (1995)
Illusions of literacy in nonspeaking autistic people: a response to Jaswal et al. 2024
In which Vikram Jaswal fails to establish the authenticity of S2C for non-speakers
Narrowing Responses to Questions by Using Facilitator Prompts? Review of Sheehan and Matuozzi (1996)
Thoughts about credulity, willful ignorance, science and pseudoscience in FC/S2C/RPM
Virtual facilitation: a means to independence or yet another high-tech distraction?
Speech, Language, and Motor Issues
Early Works by Barry Prizant: Laying the groundwork for disbelief in FC
New takes on apraxia, miracles, presuming competence et al. from S2C proponents
Recent findings about language comprehension in minimal speakers with autism
Thoughts about SLPs, AAC, and FC/RPM (but mostly AAC)
Why FC proponents constantly invoke apraxia and how they’ve got it all wrong
Testing FC/S2C/RPM
Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part 1
Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part 2
Questions to ask facilitators and yourself while observing FC/S2C/RPM sessions
Thoughts about a reader’s suggestion that I “Grow the (Beep) Up”
Why Won’t You Accept My Anecdotes as Proof of Independent Communication?