"Since these are experiments on humans, has UVA’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved the testing? And does the testing include authorship testing for FC/S2C/RPM, since we already know that these are facilitator-dependent techniques?"

Review of Joe Rogan's interview with Telepathy Tapes host Ky Dickens: the stuff of conspiracy theories, fantasy, and urban legends (Part 4) www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/review-...

Barense “believes that many autistic ppl who don’t speak may be hindered not by problems of intellect but motor control... She doesn’t seem to be aware of the Chen et al. study and what it says about how problems of with motor control in non-speakers correlate with comprehension deficits."

In a separate interview, Ky Dickens "mentions she is (or was at the time of the interview) training to become an S2C facilitator. I find it curious that, in the first 10 episodes of the Telepathy Tapes podcast, Dickens fails to mention this fact."

From unlocked genius to telepathy to time travel--gullible reporters fall for facilitated communication (#FC/#RPM/#S2C)--and a handful of reporters report responsibly. www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/fcrpms2...

Standing outside in the snow in the middle of the cemetery, I asked myself the same question I’d asked myself in Courtroom 15B on December 2nd after A.L. typed out his first response about was happening in a picture. Why didn’t I see this coming? www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/spellin...

Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part VII (The Conclusion) www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/spellin...

Favorite nugget: "Nonspeaking individuals have evolved so much that they no longer need “spelling” to communicate. They only use FC because their (neurotypical) facilitators have not yet evolved enough to keep up with their abilities."

🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!

What will it take for more prominent autism specialists and advocates to speak out more publicly against this? www.fox5dc.com/video/1663794

Message-passing failure: www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/spellin...

oilf.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-li... @carolinebowen.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social

Mixing Misinformation with Magical Thinking: Thoughts about the Telepathy Tapes (Episode 8) www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/mixing-...

Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial Part IV www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/spellin...

We’re *all* chronically fatigued, neorodivergent, socially anxious attention deficient social maskers who engage in repetitive stimming behaviors. Most of us are subclinical & say so. But the more attention-seeking & narcissistic of us routinely self dx & proclaim otherwise. whyy.org/programs/the...

I'll be giving a presentation with John Mighton; hope to see many of you there. @rastokke.bsky.social @mayak46.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @amandavande.bsky.social @amypento.bsky.social @bodiluk.bsky.social @nathanielswain.bsky.social @embracethesor.bsky.social @mrzachg.bsky.social

Recruiting #autistic participants with sentence grammar challenges for a new study!

Hot off the presses: skepticalinquirer.org/2025/04/how-...

FIT/FITTED Looking at @katharinebeals.bsky.social Sentence Weaver autism-language-therapies.com & marvelling at a subtle difference between 🇺🇸& 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿etc English. writingexplained.org/fit-or-fitte... 🇺🇸 The hat fit Bill perfectly. ✔️ 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿etc The hat fitted Bill perfectly. ✔️ 🇨🇦 Which predominates in Canada❓

Life right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32B...

Nice review of Students with Autism. www.nas.org/academic-que...

Another podcast on the Telepathy Tapes. Jim Todd and I are interviewed. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

FC proponents try to argue that the most rigorous tests are the least rigorous, and that the consistently negative results they’ve produced show that there's something wrong with the tests, not what they’re testing. And so the earth must be flat! www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/when-no...

Inside the Minds of Facilitators: Thoughts About the Telepathy Tapes (Episode 5) www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/inside-...

"The hostility in both the worlds of FC and the worlds of education towards objective, well-controlled, informative testing underscores what’s so powerful about such tests: they are the brass tacks that everything comes down to."

This week's blog post: Fighting FC pseudoscience requires a broader critique of paranormal beliefs--here's mine www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/fightin...

Pi day: A day where Ss participate in contests to recite as many of the digits of pi as possible -- promoted by those who believe memorization of number facts is bad. Any contests that test Ss "conceptual understanding" of pi? @mayak46.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @mrzachg.bsky.social

"NSF gave Alabama A&M University a $343,789 grant in 2023 to study systemic racism in mathematics teacher education." Good grief. 1819news.com/news/item/na... @toddtruitt.bsky.social @rastokke.bsky.social @rscodding.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @mikesully97.bsky.social

youtube.com/playlist?lis... @katharinebeals.bsky.social Restraint. Restrictive practice. High profile SLPs are supporting #Spellers method. Marge Blanc text promotes it. Alison Battye text promotes it. Genuine Q - why do #GLP #NLA writers promote #FC and #S2C? - Is it as NLA is ineffective?

ICYMI The FABULOUS 🆓 #IJLCDWinterLecture 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #DevLangDis www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_c... presented by @cristina-mckean.bsky.social👑 💐and @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social👑💐 Starts with @markjayes.bsky.social announcing the 2025 IJLCD journal prize-winner @lottiegasp.bsky.social Terrific slides!

$$$$ Ky Dickens' Telepathy Tapes merch - great representation of the brainwashing and also being completely inadequate as a form of sun protection. Whoever came up with this one was prioritising the merch $$ over the message.

Today I got a window into how Scientific Reports, which published Vikram #Jaswal's poorly designed, pro- #FC Eye Tracking Study, operates via peer review. They reach out to a bunch of potential reviewers all at once, and they tell you the names of the paper's authors. This is not blind peer review!

This week's blog post: Channeling lies on the Telepathy Tapes--including lies about autism and lying. www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/channel...

J.R. Wilson & I are interviewed by the incomparable @mrzachg.bsky.social. We talk about our book "Traditional Math" and about Zach's book "Just Tell Them". educationrickshaw.com/2025/02/23/s... @johncattedu.bsky.social @rastokke.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @nsachdeva.bsky.social

Sold a Story dropped the first of three new episodes today! 🎧 Listen to Episode 11: The Outlier at features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/.

Here is a short pilot vid under 2 mins explaining our systematic review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition and its alerts to clinicians. @carolinebowen.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @drjuliadray.bsky.social app.heygen.com/share/2c4d7a...

@katharinebeals.bsky.social Thanks, @speechbite.bsky.social! ICYMI 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Bryant, L., Bowen, C., Grove, R. et al. Systematic Review of Interventions Based on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) doi.org/10.1007/s404...

It will be interesting to see what books, book chapters in this review actually report any research done by Blanc and reported before or since 2012. Reported by anyone. And all those newsletter articles! We found one treatment study that supervisors (who we know) refused us access to read.

Last in our first set of 100! catherineandkatharine.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/s...

Our systematic review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition travels again - this time in South Australia. Thx Department for Education for the invitation! Next stop Canada - Weds night!! (-Thurs for some of us). @katharinebeals.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social

@rastokke.bsky.social @embracethesor.bsky.social @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social @sarahoberle.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @efratfurst.bsky.social @mrzachg.bsky.social @nsachdeva.bsky.social

The dx conflation of #Aspergers w/ #Autism has allowed fully-fluent ppl to: -claim to speak for #autistic individuals -claim to have the "standing" to be included in "inclusive" autism research -provide a pretext for rejecting/filibustering papers that aren't deemed sufficiently inclusive/affirming.

Re InformedSLP views on GLP (more supportive than not): “one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others” “none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.