Yes, I Love Facebook...Really? | Facilitated Communication | Rapid Prompting Method

This educational video is intended to draw attention to the problem of facilitator cuing in Facilitated Communication (FC). FC is also known as Supported Typing, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, and more.
In this Autism Society of America interview, a facilitator, Sara, uses Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) with her client, Ben Breaux. As they answer a question about Ben's experiences with Facebook, Sara holds a plastic letter board in the air. Ben points to it with an outstretched finger, but do the letters and words Sara calls out accurately reflect his selections?
To date, there is no reliably controlled evidence proving that FC/S2C/RPM or any of their variants produce independent communications. On the contrary, facilitators, not their clients, are the most likely sources of the messages obtained using these techniques.
Organizations such as the American Speech Language Hearing Association and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, among others, oppose their use, citing lack of scientific evidence, prompt dependency, facilitator cuing, and potential harms (such as false allegations of abuse) as just some of the reasons for their position.
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[@sgerbic]

Just amazing - he isn't looking at the board and it's so obvious when you point it out that he is pointing to completely different places than what the facilitator is calling out, plus he is pointing more than there are letters in the words. I'm just shocked they get away with this nonsense.

[@fcisnotscience]

And yet, this was put out by an autism group as an example of "legitimate" communication using FC. Most of the comments on the FB thread were positive.