Facilitated Communication (FC)

Another person provides physical support to an individual using an alternative or augmentative communication device (e.g. picture board, typewriter or computer). FC has revealed great depths of thought in some people with an Autism Spectrum Disorder but is also considered controversial. Questions have been raised concerning the influence of the person supporting the hand or arm of the individual.

Deal Communication Centre
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dealcc/welcome.htm

Facilitated Communication and Autism: Separating Fact from Fiction
http://www.csaac.org/pub-fac.htm

A History of Facilitated Communication: Science, Pseudoscience, and Antiscience: Science Working Group on Facilitated Communication
http://www.apa.org/journals/jacobson.html

American Academy of Pediatrics: Auditory Integration Training and Facilitated Communication for Autism
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics%3b102/2/431

Resolution on Facilitated Communication by the American Psychological Association
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/apafc.htm

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