Skeptic: Extraordinary Claims, Revolutionary Ideas, and the Promotion of Science
Facilitated Communication?, by Dr. Gina Green
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In Facilitated Communication: Mental Miracle or Sleight of Hand?, Dr. Gina Green, the Director of Research, New England Center for Autism, examines the claims of what is being touted as a spectacular new therapy that allows formerly non-verbal autistic patients to speak through the typing of a facilitator who holds the child’s hand. Green shows that this is nothing more than a cruel self-deception on the part of caring therapists. More importantly, Green demonstrates how they experimentally tested the claim, then concludes by discussing the sex abuse angle, which began when some children, through their facilitators, began typing obscene messages about sexual abuse.