Facilitated communication/External Links


 * Bibliographies:
 * Facilitated Communication Training: An Annotated Bibliography
 * Samuel Gridley Howe Library Bibliographies: Facilitated Communication (PDF)


 * Articles:
 * Language and Retardation, Borthwick, C. and Crossley, R., Psycoloquy (1999)
 * Infant Motor Dyspraxia as a Predictor of Speech in Childhood Autism (PDF)


 * Controlled studies (and summaries):
 * Doug Wheeler: An Experience With Facilitated Communication (1993) (summary)
 * Montee et al. (1995)
 * Wegner, Fuller, & Sparrow's "Clever Hands" studies


 * By and About FC Users:
 * Articles By FC Users
 * Message-Passing: Part Of The Journey To Empowered Communication, by Mayer Shevin and Annegret Schubert
 * Learning About Independent Typing From People Working To Achieve It, by Douglas Biklen, with comments from Lucy Harrison, Larry Bissonnette and Sharisa Joy Kochmeister
 * Independent typist: Lucy Blackman


 * Media:
 * "Prisoners of Silence": Frontline show on FC aired October 19, 1993
 * In The Front Line - Response to Frontline show by Rosemary Crossley and other FC proponents
 * Autism Is A World: Documentary on FC user Sue Rubin (using an alternate method of FC where the assistant holds the keyboard instead of Sue's hand or arm) which aired on "CNN Presents"
 * Facilitated communication advocated in CNN-funded documentary - Critical review of "Autism Is A World" from Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan
 * Pseudoscience in Autism Treatment - Critical review of "Autism Is A World" from Pasadena Weekly


 * Position statements:
 * American Psychological Association (1994)
 * TASH (1994)
 * American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (1994) (PDF)
 * American Academy of Pediatrics (1998)
 * Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan (BAAM) (1998)
 * New York State Department of Health (1999)
 * Report of the MADSEC Autism Task Force, pages 35-41 (2000) (PDF)
 * Autism National Committee (AutCom): Policy and Principles Regarding Facilitated Communication, 2008