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A new paper from Eric Fombonne is in electronic print at the journal Pediatric Research.
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The title is ‘Epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders’
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Combining all these categories together Fombonne presents a prevalence of 60-70/10,000.
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NeuroLogica Blog » Facilitated Communication Persists Despite Scientific Crit... - 0 views
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Facilitated Communication (FC) is a technique for allegedly aiding those with communication impairment, such as some people with autism, to communicate through typing or pointing at a letter board. The idea is that some children have greater cognitive ability than is apparent through their verbal skills, but they lack the motor skills to type or write. The facilitator in FC is trained to hold and support their client’s hand, to help stabilize it, so that they can type out their thoughts.
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FC was enthusiastically embraced by the special education community in the late 1980s and early 1990s but problems quickly emerged, namely the question of authorship – who is doing the communicating, the client or the facilitator?
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The scientific evidence came down clearly on one side of that debate – it is the facilitator who is the author of the communication, not the client.
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Comprehensive List of Social Stories and Visual Scripts for Daily Living and Social Ski... - 0 views
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"Social stories or visual scripts are stories that describe with words and pictures different activities or events that happen in life in a step by step detailed way. The social stories or visual scripts listed are mostly in PDF format (unless otherwise noted). If you do not have a PDF reader, you can download Adobe PDF Reader."
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