🆕 Hemsley, B., Bryant, L., & Beals, K. (2026). Book Review: #GLP: Supporting Autistic and Neurodivergent Children with Natural Language Acquisition by Alison Battye. CLTT, doi.org/10.1177/0265... @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

"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.”

Catherine Johnson on How to teach students to write better than a robot, and why scienceofhumanwriting.substack.com/p/how-to-tea...

"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."

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

"It’s the actions ppl take after they access scientific evidence that counts the most. Do they go deeper into their belief system or do they follow the science? Do they take facilitator claims on face value? Or do they set up authorship testing before implementing the program?"

A responsible article on quackery in #autism in the Philadelphia Inquirer! www.inquirer.com/.../autism-t.... With links to Janyce Boynton's page for parents on our website-- www.facilitatedcommunication.org www.facilitatedcommunication.org/parents

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...

In which Adam extending a finger to God's extended finger is compared with Dan Bergmann extending a finger to Soma Mukhopadhyay's letterboard. vimeo.com/1071912273/1...

I suspect someone high up may have a personal stake in this. And that's very alarming.

The only time the HoloBoard typing was definitively unprompted was when it occurred in solo mode. Only 5 kids could do that & all they did was spell short answers when asked to do so (name, home city, parents’ names, favorite movie, age). www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/can-jas...

Good article but she might have credited the website from which she took her image. asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo... www.facilitatedcommunication.org

"instead of steering those people in the direction of reliably controlled methods and techniques to address the complex communication needs of their clients and loved ones, she sends them on a wild goose chase with the promise of a magical solution to real world problems."

Autism does not involve a "deranged relationship with one's body." My moderately autistic son, who can express all his thoughts thru writing, will never be published by the NYTimes. His level of writing is consistent with his diagnosis, and w/ the tremendous language interventions he received.

This is what it looks like when J. types: www.tiktok.com/@daily_writi...

It's out! Despite all the pressure from self-styled #autism #neurodiversity advocates! And open access, no less! You can access the whole article on this link This stuff should NOT be controversial!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A journalist strives for "balance", and makes yet another reference to those "100 studies" that supposedly find evidence for FC/RPM/S2C. www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/jeffers...

"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-...

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