Empty Reviews are not Context-Free: Implications for RPM and S2C  — Facilitated Communication In a recent podcast (“Uniquely Human”), Dr. Prizant suggested that my work on empty reviews is inconsistent: that one cannot draw conclusions in the absence of evidence, yet I discourage the use of RP...

Empty Reviews are not context free: implications for RPM/S2C (Guest post by Dr. Ralf Schlosser)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/empty-r...

Ha! Yes. Just another slippery way proponents have of NOT participating in a simple activity that makes sure they aren't controlling letter selection. It's almost like they know who's really controlling the (facilitator-dependent) messages.

All he needs to do is provide reliably controlled evidence of his claims of communication independence in facilitator-dependent techniques. It's really simple. The protocols for such testing have been in place at least since the mid-1980s, maybe earlier.

So that’s why FCed individuals don’t look at the letter board! A review of the article “Association between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Vision Problems” — Facilitated Communication In today’s blog post, we’ll be looking at a study sent to us by an FC proponent (thank you!). The article is titled “ Association between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and vision problems. A systemat...

So that's why FCed individuals don't look at the letter board! A review of the article "Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Vision Problems"

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/so-that...

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/barry-p...
Presuming that s.o. has so little control over their body that all their behaviors are essentially meaningless (except those elicited by their facilitators) is the most extreme presumption of incompetence ever made.

@davidkaufer.bsky.social

Barry Prizant and David Kaufer take on the “Naysayers” and “Haters” of “modern spelling methods” — Facilitated Communication ‍In a recent episode of his Uniquely Human Podcast , pro-FC convert Barry Prizant hosted David Kaufer , the parent of a non-speaking son and an advocate of what he calls “modern spelling methods.”...

Barry Prizant and David Kaufer take on the "Naysayers" and "Haters" of "modern spelling methods"

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/barry-p...

Bees, Flies, and the Question of Authorship: A reflection on evidence, belief, and responsibility — Facilitated Communication There is a teaching often attributed to the spiritual writer Anthony de Mello about two insects in a garden. A fly and a bee enter the same place. The fly searches for rot, decay, and waste. Eve...

Dr. Howard Shane is today's guest contributor.

Bees, Flies, and the Question of Authorship: A Reflection on Evidence, Belief, and Responsibility

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/bees-fl...

"In Cardinal’s email exchange with me, he indicated there was data left out of the final report... Sadly, he couldn’t provide that data to me when I asked... All I wanted to know was how many correct vs. incorrect responses were given in each of the conditions of their study."

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham’s 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC? Part 5 (What FCed Errors Tell Us About Facilitator Influence) — Facilitated Communication Today’s blog post is the fifth in a series reviewing a 1996 article titled “Investigation of authorship in facilitated communication.” (Links to prior blog posts below). The Cardinal, Hanson, and Wake...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham's 1996 study prove authorship in FC (Part 5)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/does-ca...

Talking back to “Talking Back to Autism” — Facilitated Communication Last week, I posted a review of Beyond , a surprisingly realistic documentary about profound autism that came out in 2023 and included some surprisingly unremarkable scenes of facilitated communi...

Talking back to "Talking Back to Autism"

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/talking...

Opposition Statements: Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate — Facilitated Communication Speech/language, psychological, health, autism, and behavioral organizations who oppose the use of FC, S2C, RPM and their variants, citing lack of scientific evidence, prompt dependency, facilitator c...

La Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) (France) has just come out with an opposition statement regarding FC/RPM. FMI:
www.facilitatedcommunication.org/organization...

"Cardinal essentially sabotaged their goal of developing a protocol that “controlled for variables that could threaten the study’s validity” by giving facilitators & the people documenting the facilitated messages (called recorders) in the study access to the word list being used for test stimuli."

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham’s 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC? Part 4 (Facilitator Behaviors) — Facilitated Communication Today’s blog post is the fourth in a series featuring a 1996 article titled “Investigation of authorship in facilitated communication.” This is one of the top studies that proponents include on pro-FC...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham's 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC - Part 4 (Facilitator Behaviors)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/does-ca...

"Despite claiming in their study that they “blinded” facilitators from the test stimuli, Cardinal et al. gave facilitators open access to the word list used in the testing & essentially sabotaged their own stated goal of “controlling for variables” & keeping facilitators “blind.”

FC Past and Present: A Now-Normalized Routine that Solves Nothing — Facilitated Communication A few weeks ago, I encountered something that surprised me: a full-length documentary about profound autism. Even though it came out in 2023, I’d somehow never heard of it—and neither had any of my au...

FC Past and Present: A Now-Normalized Routine that Solves Nothing

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/fc-past...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham’s 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC? Part 3 (Competing for words) — Facilitated Communication Today’s blog post is the third in a series featuring a 1996 article titled “ Investigation of authorship in facilitated communication .” I will provide links to the previous blog posts below. To reca...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham's 1996 study prove authorship in FC? Part 3 (Competing for Words)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/does-ca...

RFK Jr. Puts Facilitated Communication Users on the HHS Autism Panel | Skeptical Inquirer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can now add support for discredited methods of communication to his list of anti-science accomplishments as Secretary of Health and Hu ...

RFK Jr. puts facilitated communication users on the HHS autism panel.

skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/rf...

ASHA 2025: The Empty Review of FC/RPM/S2C/Spellers Method and its aftermath — Facilitated Communication My news roundup of two weeks ago captured only a subset of the FC/RPM/S2C/Spellers Method developments that were unfolding the whole time I was posting about holoboards and hololenses and letterb...

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/asha-20...

ASHA 2025: The Empty Review of FC/RPM/S2C/Spellers Method and its aftermath — Facilitated Communication My news roundup of two weeks ago captured only a subset of the FC/RPM/S2C/Spellers Method developments that were unfolding the whole time I was posting about holoboards and hololenses and letterb...

ASHA 2025: The Empty Review of FC/RPM/S2C/Spellers Method and its aftermath

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/asha-20...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham’s 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC? Part 2 (Test Design) — Facilitated Communication Today’s blog post is the second in a series featuring a 1996 article titled “ Investigation of authorship in facilitated communication .” In my previous blog post, I outlined the intent of the researc...

Does Cardinal, Hanson, and Wakeham's 1996 Study Prove Authorship in FC? Part 2 (Test Design)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/does-ca...

"The HoloBoard, the HoloLens, the HoloGaze, the LetterBox: all of it rings so hollow. & it’s painful to think of how all the financial & intellectual capital that went into these projects might have been spent on to improve, rather than to diminish, the fragile lives of minimal speakers w/ autism."

News Roundup: August - December 2025

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/news-ro...

Can HoloLens lessons liberate S2Ced individuals from their facilitators?--Plus a recap Jaswal et al.’s 2023-2025 virtual reality oeuvre

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-hol...

End of the Year Review (2025) — Facilitated Communication As 2025 winds down, I can’t help but scratch my head at FC’s resurgence that’s happened under the guise of Spelling To Communicate (S2C) and Rapid Prompting Method (RPM)—with a bizarre telepathic twis...

End of the Year Review (2025)

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/end-of-...

"We can only wonder what the excluded data would have suggested to their readers about language and literacy skills in non-speaking autism"

Can the Hologaze liberate S2Ced individuals from their facilitators?

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-the...

Maine Chooses Science Over Pseudoscience and Terminates the S2C Pilot Program — Facilitated Communication Today’s blog post is the third in a series I’ve written about Maine’s Spelling to Communicate (S2C) Pilot Program and efforts to raise awareness about the concerns my colleagues and I have about facil...

Maine chooses science over pseudoscience and terminate the S2C Pilot Program

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/maine-c...

I’m not sure what this extremely slow letter selection process means, but it isn’t good news for those who wish to make claims about intact language comprehension and literacy in S2C-ed individuals.

Can Jaswal's "LetterBoxes" substitute for letter boards?

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-jas...

Are Maine Public Schools Violating IDEA? And Other Questions About Maine’s S2C Pilot Program — Facilitated Communication In my last blog post , I discussed Maine’s Spelling to Communicate (S2C) Pilot program that is being funded by the Maine Department of Education and my reactions to it. S2C is a variant of Facilitate...

Are Maine Public Schools Violating IDEA? And Other Questions About Maine's S2C pIlot Program

www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/are-mai...