Who's Controlling the Communication Tools? | Spelling to Communicate | Facilitated Communication
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- This education video is intended to raise awareness of facilitator cuing in a technique called Facilitated Communication (FC), also known as Spelling to Communicate (S2C), Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), Supported Tying (ST), and more.
In this video, we look at a clip from the documercial "Spellers" where Dawnmarie Gaivin holds a plastic stencil letter board in the air for her client, Aydan, to spell out "Great life is ahead." But, who is controlling the communication tools?
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To date, there is no reliably controlled evidence that proves messages obtained using FC, S2C, RPM or any of their variants produces independent communication. Rather, research shows that facilitators and not their clients are controlling the messages.
Organizations such as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, among others, oppose its use, citing lack of scientific evidence, facilitator cuing, prompt dependency, and potential harms (e.g. false allegations of abuse).
FMI about controlled studies, systematic reviews, opposition statements, and more, please check out our website at www.facilitatedcommunication.org
Why doesn't anyone ever ask for a milkshake or chocolate. Its always something vague and philosphical.
They do
Speller's is now streaming on UA-cam for free if you want to watch it for yourselves.
This is a great opportunity to see how facilitators provide visual, auditory and physical cues that aid in letter selection. And, though these are supposedly exemplars of "successful" FC/S2C/RPM sessions, there are examples of facilitators calling out letters while their client or loved one is not looking at the letter board. I suggest familiarizing yourself with these questions before watching the film. www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/questions-to-ask-facilitators-and-yourself-while-observing-fc-s2c-rpm-sessions
There are also reviews of the movie on our website www.facilitatedcommunication.org
It's just an odd thing to say too. The kids in the film where very philosophical in the answers.
These letterboards seem so much better than the icon based AAC (which teacher keeps "modeling, modeling, modeling" HER THOUGHTS which is TELLING and INFLUENCING the students' messages) With the full alphabet the students can spell whatever is in their own head, not only what their SLP programmed into their app and teacher modelled!
The problem in FC/S2C/RPM is not high or low-tech technology. Letter boards can be used as a legitimate tool. Many AAC devices include a full letter board/keyboard. Rather, the problem is facilitator influence and control over letter selection, which comes in the form of physical, visual, and auditory cues. There are many articles and blog posts about this issue on our website: www.facilitatedcommunication.org
They have an easier time believing that these "cognitively impaired" individuals can pick up on these subtle cues that SAT test proctors, college professors, doctors miss in order to accurately point, letter by letter, to spell out paragraphs of information. Or that the communication partner is somehow telepathically telling them what letters to poke. That makes more sense to them then nonspeakers being intelligent and learning how to point to letters in order to spell out their thoughts. This isn't a grand conspiracy, it's just an alphabet.
Thank you for your awareness to the lies
Even facilitators are not always aware of the control they have and influence and then there are thise VERY aware. Its emotional manipulation of parents who are desperate to blindly believe this lie for the false hope and is truely dispicable to be a proponent of. This is not helping.
You need to learn more about how difficult apraxia is to overcome! Yes when learning the speller need a lot of support. Their body is very out of their control and they depend on their communication partner to keep them regulated!! Once they become fully fluent they are able to consistently hit the letter they want to
Thank you. I am familiar with the misuse of this term in the FC/S2C/RPM literature. Many people being subject to its use are able to perform gross and fine motor tasks (e.g., picking up a chip from a plate, tying their shoes, using a paintbrush, shaving) that would also enable them to select letters on a keyboard. We've covered this topic on our website. Here is a link to some of this information: www.facilitatedcommunication.org/search?q=apraxia
It also feels odd that she ends the word "is", even though he could have been spelling a longer word that begins with "is". How does she know that's not the case?
That's exactly the problem with facilitators controlling access to the letter board.
That was a lot of work Janyce to put this video together! I kept answering the questions as you asked them, frustrating that the supporters of this nonsense won’t answer the questions.
That’s the first time I’ve seen someone need to look at a nose in order to communicate. I’ve seen Soma take the pencil Aldo right out of the hand. Rude and it seems pointless.
@@sgerbic From what I can tell, facilitators try to deflect attention away from their behavior...so even asking the questions is considered being against FC.
It also appears facilitators grab the pencil away when the client isn't pointing to the letter they want them to. It's another subtle-not-so-subtle way of controlling the messaging.
If he continues spelling a longer word she'll write it down and see that it wasn't "is" it was "issue" it happens all the time. Watch Elizabeth Bonker's valedictorian speech, it's on UA-cam. Do you think she fooled her teachers and professors her whole life?
@@sgerbiclearn about the method, learn about apraxia and it will make sense to you.
It looks much more authentic and reliable than the PECs system, which also uses prompting and modeling. Also, there are studies verifying the words are the spellers. An eye tracking study out of the University of Virginia proves that the spellers eyes track from one letter to the next letter faster than anyone would possibly be able to prompt or influence them to go there. Educate yourself and your viewers.
While facilitator/assistant cueing is always a concern, at least PECS is evidence based. There are no reliably controlled studies proving proponent claims that FC/S2C/RPM (or other facilitator-dependent techniques) lead to independent communication. The Jaswal studies coming out of the University of Virginia did not control for facilitator influence/control of the letter board, which negates some, if not all of the claims made by the researchers. Reviews of the eye-tracking study (and more) are available on our website: www.facilitatedcommunication.org
You have too much time to waste then trying to understand and learn more about it.
You'll find more information about FC/S2C/RPM at www.facilitatedcommunication.org Much of what's listed there are resources are omitted from pro-FC/S2C/RPM websites.