5:51 p.m.
See below- one of the reasons you will see us continually hammer home the focus on some
iteration of evidence, evidence-based practice, research validated practices, etc.
etc.…those of you in language likely aren’t so aware of the facilitated communication
controversy…but they have a new movie on Netflix- Tell Them You Love Me on the
Stubblefield case but it is characteristic of a long line of cases about FC since it was
invented by Blinken and his crew at Syracuse, who is also part of the full inclusion
movement, and a founding member of TASH.
https://time.com/6989297/tell-them-you-love-me-netflix-explained/
https://www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/at-what-point-was-anna-stub...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2018/06/18/facilitated-commun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abuse_allegations_made_through_faci...
Nice video:
https://www.facilitatedcommunication.org/movies
More recently, it has been rebranded as “supported typing or rapid prompting.” And nice
people supporting it- always hard to go against families who have kids with
disabilities…”Tharp Completes Ironman Triathalon to Honor His Nonverbal Autistic Brother
and Support Saved By Typing”
https://savedbytyping.com/
And some of the hokey stuff that originated at Syracuse is making its way into special
education, being rolled out under the ablism umbrella…now being pushed out by Kansas of
all places…
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