David's Facilitated Communication Eval

An amazing day! Our son David was evaluated for FC and chose to type his first message ever to mom!
To the untrained eye it appears the facilitator is guiding David's arm, but I was sitting on David's left side and can assure anyone, this was all David's doing.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• autism
• fc
• facilitated
• communication
• non
• verbal
• asbergers
• asd
• spectrum
• disorder

[dave4248]

My autistic son uses a keyboard but he DOESN'T need a facilitator. What he types are sentence fragments. Some of them make sense, some don't. The point is, it's not genuine if a second person has to hold your hand. It's her words you're reading, not his.

[davidversusautism]

@dave4248 I disagree completely. I have witnessed many children using FC that have shared experiences that only mom and dad would know of. The facilitators are the paraprofessionals who would have no knowledge of these instances. For example on person typed of his memory at the age of 3 the day he was diagnosed with ASD. He remembered his mom putting him in his crib then laying on the bed and crying.

[davidversusautism]

He felt sad that he could not comfort her. His mom hadn't shared with with anyone not even family. This is just one of many instances.

[davidversusautism]

Research:

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It will be the first link that comes up

[davidversusautism]

New research being conducted on RPM at Cornell....see Research post here.

[imapc08]

at that age, how is "poignant" in his everyday vocabulary?....

[ItsAReefer]

@davidversusautism What mother wouldn't cry the day their child was diagnosed with autism? I say your mother cried on your first day of school. Call me psychic.

[FlatulousMaximus]

Such a sick fraud! So tell me, how did this kid learn to spell at all?? especially a word like "poignant" to know the meaning of "poignant", how to properly use "poignant" in a sentence or how he even learned to compose a sentence. This "FC" crap is a FRAUD. It is an assault on the child, it is child abuse and a crime against humanity!

[ClaireLe]

FC is a fake. Do a test. Show your kid a picture and ask him to type it, but don't let the FC sees what the picture is. Or show your kid a picture and show the FC a DIFFERENT picture and sees what is type out. Or ask your kid a question but don't let the FC hears what you have asked. Then see what your kid type.

[shissqbob]

@Nellicolor I'm sorry, but when did a touch on the shoulder stimulate neurons in the brain to stay on task?

[vickie0515]

We started to train autistic kids and parents to type on a paper keyboard since 1-2 years ago in Taiwan. Now some kids can type independently with computer keyboard and some needs very limited assistance (mothers gradually tapered their assistance during the exercise). Then, some special education teachers tried out the skills after they attended our speech and they successfully helped some kids to type, who were previously thought to be severely mentally retarded.

[Clel0005]

Look, don't get mad at people for calling something pseudoscience that has been discredited since the 90's. If you knew someone that was going through leech treatment as a cancer treatment you would do the same damn thing.

[aDinoSupremacist]

facilitated communication is fake

[privatepile762]

@Nellicolor Science caught up to the lie of FC in the 1990s. Nobody is doing research on it now because it has been debunked by the scientific community. I suppose we alos ought to believe in the ouija board while we "wait for the research" to catch up to its effectiveness as well. You are investing in a fraud and no matter how badly you want FC to be authentic and a valid means of communication, it never will be. The APA called FC "an immediate threat to individual civil & human rights."

[Nellicolor]

@davidversusautism i'm responding on my husbands site. I appreciate your response so much.

my daughter has just begun this journey. i believe in time she will be able to type independently.

some people don't have the physical capability of doing it without the support in various parts

of the arm. some others, have neuro situations that require a touch to the shoulder to keep on

task. however it is........more and more are getting a voice. like braille for the blind.

[Nellicolor]

@privatepile762 no you and the others who so insistently call it a lie are WRONG.

until science can catch up..........that's what the ignorant will say.