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Living with Autism or Aspergers Syndrome definitely isn`t an easy ride, you will want plenty of information and support and for many you have to strive for it.
This web site was built as a focalpoint to help you find the information you need to meet the challenges ahead with skill and fortitiude.
We have collated all the web sites concerning Autism, Asperger Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome that we could find, and built them into this autism related portal including a full search engine.
Sites:
- A History of Facilitated Communication: Science, Pseudoscience, and Antiscience: Science Working Group on Facilitated Communication - A paper published by 'The American Psychologist' concluding that in controlled research settings people with disabilities were unable to respond accurately to label or describe stimuli unseen by their assistants, and that the responses are in fact controlled by the assistants.
- DEAL Communication Centre - Helps people who have little or no speech. Headed by Rosemary Crossley, the inventor of Facilitated Communication.
- Exploring Facilitated Communication - Article published in the September 1995 'The Rocky Mountain Skeptic' addressing the issue of FC being used as the basis for allegations of physical or sexual abuse by a parent or caretaker.
- Facilitated Communication - Detailed account of experimental testing of FC, by the Director of Research at the New England Center for Autism.
- Facilitated Communication 2000 Denmark - Articles, references and other information concerning Facilitated Communication, a method to help people with pointing disabilities and lack of speech to communicate through typing.
- Facilitated Communication and Autism: Separating Fact From Fiction - An article written by Marcia Datlow Smith and Ronald G. Belcher which concludes that FC should be considered experimental and its use limited to scientific inquiry.
- Facilitated Communication Institute - A current schedule of upcoming activities including research, public education, training and scholarly seminars at the Institute as well as the full text of conference keynote speeches by FC users.
- Facilitated Communication Training - Guidelines intended to support the effective and appropriate use of FC.
- Facilitated Communication: All Sides of the Issue - An essay on FC including its history, the controversy, validation studies and commentary from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
- Lonesome Doves - A Group of facilitated communication users in Pennsylvania who are actively promoting FC as a valid method of alternative and augmentive communication. This website is designed by them.
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