No More No More | Facilitated Communication | Spelling to Communicate
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2023
- This educational video is intended to draw attention to facilitator cuing in a technique called Spelling to Communication (S2C). S2C is a variant of Facilitated Communication (FC) and is also known as Rapid Prompting Method (RPM).
This critique features a video clip from a movie called "The Reason I Jump" where a mother and daughter sit on a park bench facilitating. While the mother calls out letters, her daughter says "No more! No More!." Why, we ask, are the daughter's verbal requests being ignored?
To date, there are no reliably controlled studies to prove proponent claims of independent communication. Like with FC, which has been thoroughly discredited, concerns about facilitator control over letter selection arise when a letter board is held in the air and the facilitator uses hand signals (and other physical, visual and auditory cues) to aid in letter selection.
Organizations like the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) opposes the use of FC/S2C/RPM citing concerns over facilitator control, prompt dependency, lack of scientific evidence, financial and opportunity costs, and potential harms, including false allegations of abuse.
Controlled studies, systematic reviews, opposition statements, and other information regarding FC/S2C/RPM are available on the website facilitatedcommunication.org.
It's chilling that the mom is so focused on spelling out a sentence that she is ignoring Emma's distress and speech.
Facilitators are taught to ignore everything except the typed messages.
It’s very obvious the mom is moving her hand BEFORE Emma’s pointing, there’s no need for the mom to do that if Emma knows what to say. Heartbreaking.
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Thanks for the clear breakdown of what was actually going on in that video. My friends swore they had watched this, and there was no influence of the facilitator at all.
Most people focus on the person being facilitated and not the facilitator, so they miss the physical, visual, and auditory cues provided by the facilitator. Slowing down the video, paying close attention to the facilitator's behaviors (as well as the person being subjected to FC) is helpful, though cues can be subtle and not easily picked up by the naked eye. That's why reliably controlled testing to rule out facilitator influence is important.
Wow I didn't even think of that, she is holding the toy just fine and able to push the buttons to make it play music, why can't she type on the letter board on her own, even a keyboard so the mother doesn't need to be there at all?
A very good question.
You have to understand apraxia, and how it affects the body in order to understand why she is able to do a task like push buttons to make music play vs. communicating her thoughts and ideas. It takes much more motor control to type out your thoughts because they are always different. It's taken her a lot of hard work and practice to get to this point. If you don't know, apraxia is the inability to intentionally move your body (on demand), even though you understand the task, or what you want to do. It's a motor planning disorder, we are finding that autism is a motor sensory difference, not a behavioral and cognitive disorder. Elizabeth Torres from Rutgers has some very interesting research on the subject.
@@dawnjennings-os4ho "we are finding that autism is a motor sensory difference"?
Is this really what the world of experts on autism thinks?
@@dawnjennings-os4ho So why is the letter board held? Why not put it somewhere in the same angle but stable without anyone able to move it? And why is a facilitator needed, if you used a keyboard or tablet that recorded when she touched the screen, you wouldn't need someone to call out the letters.
Oh wow until you pointed it out I didn't see the mother's moving hand
Hand cues can be very subtle. Naturally, our attention is drawn to the client and not the facilitator, so the cues are easy to miss.
The whole thing is utterly evil.
It's hard to watch her verbal and non-verbal protestations be ignored by the facilitator.
@@fcisnotscience IKR?!
And this shite is the very thing that the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network is actively bloody supporting ... entirely unwilling to see the bloody irony of it!
Meanwhile, behaviour analysts are teaching non-orative autistic kids to use AAC devices to communicate independently ... which often leads to these kids orating including in self-advocacy.
How dare you say she does not have motor skill problems because she can hold the music making toy, which if you knew autism, when the autistic individual find comfort or sensory exposure to a certain thing there ability is much higher, so again this is not a fair observation. I don't know what this channel is trying to achieve but you are misleading people about the understanding of autism so tred carefully when your informing people
If you have questions about facilitated communication and its variants, you might want to visit www.facilitatedcommunication.org, which is a resource for controlled studies, systematic reviews, opposition statements, critiques of FC, and more.
@@fcisnotscience I have no questions I am well versed in autism and i know children and adults with autism are much more capable then you keep implying them not to be
@@soulstarseeking9 The problem is with facilitator-dependent techniques (FC/S2C/RPM) and not those being subjected to its use. I refer you to www.facilitatedcommunication.org for more information about FC/S2C/RPM, including controlled studies, systematic reviews, opposition statements, critiques of FC/S2C/RPM and more.
@@fcisnotscience There is great research out of Rutgers (Elizabeth Torres) and University of Virginia (literacy and eye tracking studies). You should be informed yourself if you are providing others with information.
@@dawnjennings-os4ho The Jaswal studies have major flaws--particularly when it comes to ruling out facilitator influence and control. Reviews are available on our website: www.facilitatedcommunication.org. I/we will check out the Torres studies.