Supported Typing Demonstration - Featuring Jake Willman Chris Jorwic - 12/21/2013

Supported typing is a type of Facilitated Communication that can give nonverbal autistics a way to communicate with the outside world.
For thousands of children and adults on the Autism Disorder Spectrum (ADS), the ability to talk or communicate has been disrupted, or virtually eliminated in many cases, by the neurological disorder that affects 1 in every 88 children in the US. To the "outside world," these non-verbal individuals are considered to be mentally handicapped and uneducatable beyond basic "life skills" like learning to use utensils to feed themselves.
But the truth is that many of these nonverbal individuals are not only NOT mentally handicapped, they are often highly intelligent.
For more information about Facilitated Communication and Supported Typing, visit savedbytyping.com.

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He's not even looking at the keyboard! Parents, please watch the documentary on facilitated communication called "Prisoners of Silence" and read everything you can about this method. Facilitated communication is a fraud.

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the disabled individual often is looking completely away from the keyboard while typing with one hand (absolutely impossible, even for typing experts, one needs to situate themselves on a keyboard to be able to type eyes closed) while the facilitator is always staring directly at the keyboard.
why do people still believe in this? I have a loy of contempt for facilitators who make a living doing this. they are essentially using a human being as a puppet, and the family is often none the wiser.
if you are a facilitator and believe this is working, please do some extensive research and then attempt to do some double blind tests and really ask yourself whether or not you're kidding yourself. humans lie to each other and to themselves all the time, and sometimes a lie gets so out of hand that all those involves forget it's a lie.
I feel bad for these disabled individuals as they are being used in a very abusive way with FC.