Review of Questions to Ask Facilitators and Yourself While Observing FC/S2C/RPM Sessions

  Boynton, J. (2024). Questions to ask facilitators and yourself while observing FC/S2C/RPM sessions. Facilitatedcommunication.org https://www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/questions-to-ask-facilitators-and-yourself-while-observing-fc-s2c-rpm-sessions Reviewed by Smrithi Thyagarajan (Extern) and David Celiberti, PhD, BABA-D Association for Science in Autism Treatment The Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) firmly believes that consumers are well within their rights to question providers and to receive…

Review of Interrogating Neurotypical bias in Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, and Spelling 2 Communicate Through a Humanistic Lens

  Schlosser, R. W., & Prabhu, A. (2024). Interrogating neurotypical bias in Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, and Spelling 2 Communicate through a humanistic lens. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 11(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40474-024-00296-w   Reviewed by Angela Fuhrmann-Knowles, MA, BCBA Endicott College Reports have indicated that approximately 25-35% of autistic individuals have minimal to no speech…

Facilitated Communication

Updated by: David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D, Kathryn Daly, MA, BCBA, and Jamaun Willis, MEd, BCBA Association for Science in Autism Treatment Description: Facilitated Communication (FC) is an intervention in which the service provider, a “facilitator,” holds the participant’s hands, wrists, or arms to help him or her spell messages on a keyboard or a board…