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Part II", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/11/can-jaswals-holoboards-substitute-for_18.html", "published_at": "2025-11-18T14:40:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b7-00eb-7213-9cd2-7829870c5a9f", "title": "Can Jaswal’s “HoloBoards” substitute for letterboards? 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"01a087b7-00eb-7213-9cd2-7829887cd17c", "title": "Cincinnati local news and NPR Weekend Edition on Jakob Jordan", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/09/cincinnati-local-news-and-npr-weekend.html", "published_at": "2025-09-18T13:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b7-00eb-7213-9cd2-782988da76f9", "title": "Twitter suspensions and their aftermath", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/09/twitter-suspensions-and-their-aftermath.html", "published_at": "2025-09-06T16:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b7-00eb-7213-9cd2-782989530881", "title": "University of Toronto Magazine on “When Words Won’t Cooperate”", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/09/university-of-toronto-magazine-on-when.html", "published_at": "2025-09-03T12:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b7-00eb-7213-9cd2-782989d46e01", "title": "Disability Scoop on “Communication Method Finally Gives Nonverbal Woman A Voice”", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/08/disability-scoop-on-communication.html", "published_at": 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"url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-fc-myths-coincide-with-edu-mythsand.html", "published_at": "2025-03-26T16:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab455a5cc5d", "title": "Fighting FC pseudoscience requires a broader critique of paranormal beliefs—here’s mine", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/03/fighting-fc-pseudoscience-requires.html", "published_at": "2025-03-12T16:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab456774e16", "title": "Channeling lies on the Telepathy Tapes—including lies about autism and lying", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/02/channeling-lies-on-telepathy.html", "published_at": "2025-02-26T20:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab45702adac", "title": "Whose Voice? A review of Makayla’s Voice", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/02/whose-voice-review-of-makaylas-voice.html", "published_at": "2025-02-19T14:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab458024967", "title": "Scrambling the spectrum, flattening the curve, and making FC seem more plausible", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/02/scrambling-spectrum-flattening-curve.html", "published_at": "2025-02-13T16:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab458a7c62c", "title": "The Informed SLP attempts to discuss my paper on Gestalt Language Processing", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-informed-slp-attempts-to-discuss-my.html", "published_at": "2025-01-28T02:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab45987440b", "title": "News Roundup, May, 2024 to December, 2024 Uncritical reports of S2C and RPM breakthroughs", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2025/01/news-roundup-may-2024-to-december-2024.html", "published_at": "2025-01-15T01:43:00+00:00" }, { 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groundwork for disbelief in FC", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/07/early-works-by-barry-prizant-laying.html", "published_at": "2024-07-25T12:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab45dd950fe", "title": "Tell Them It’s Not Hate Speech: FC, facilitator crimes, and the ethically compromised world of disability studies", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/07/tell-them-its-not-hate-speech-fc.html", "published_at": "2024-07-17T18:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab45e3683d9", "title": "Recapping some reasons why language is impaired in autism—and why degree of impairment correlates with autism severity", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/07/recapping-some-reasons-why-language-is.html", "published_at": "2024-07-08T20:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd0-cc9b-71d0-b2b0-1ab45ece4705", "title": "Recent findings about language comprehension in minimal speakers with autism", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/07/recent-findings-about-language.html", 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"2024-02-08T02:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30cacfa29", "title": "News rundown: more non-academic requirement in schools", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/02/news-rundown-more-non-academic.html", "published_at": "2024-02-01T15:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30cb8ca9b", "title": "Why apraxia can’t explain away the need for physical touch, held-up letterboards, or hovering prompters", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/01/why-apraxia-cant-explain-away-need-for.html", "published_at": "2024-01-24T19:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30d442991", "title": "Falling for Happiness Falls: Is it too much to ask we overcome our skepticism and just believe?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/01/falling-for-happiness-falls-is-it-too.html", "published_at": "2024-01-10T16:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30ddfdc93", "title": "Spellers but not Readers--update re peripheral vision", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2024/01/spellers-but-not-readers-update-re.html", "published_at": "2024-01-02T15:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30eaa1e57", "title": "Can facilitator influence be reduced to co-construction of meaning?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/12/can-facilitator-influence-be-reduced-to.html", "published_at": "2023-12-20T17:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30ee2e285", "title": "Are autism rates really going up? And why are there so few moderately autistic kids?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/12/are-autism-rates-really-going-up-and.html", "published_at": "2023-12-13T16:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a30f64c566", "title": "Might non-speaking individuals with autism be brilliant?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/12/might-non-speaking-individuals-with.html", "published_at": "2023-12-07T02:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a3104f28ab", "title": "Highlights from this month’s ASHA conference", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/11/highlights-from-this-months-asha.html", "published_at": "2023-11-29T18:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-9ba9-717a-a5bd-47a3109bfcb3", "title": "Another Side Effect of FC: Alternative Facts", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/11/another-side-effect-of-fc-alternative.html", "published_at": "2023-11-15T20:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275d3b4f52", "title": "Malapropism watch", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/11/malapropism-watch.html", "published_at": "2023-11-08T17:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275e0c9a79", "title": "FC-friendly trends in autism diagnoses", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/11/fc-friendly-trends-in-autism-diagnoses.html", "published_at": "2023-11-01T18:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275ea61af6", "title": "Grit, revisited", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/10/grit-revisited.html", "published_at": "2023-10-25T15:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275eb71ced", "title": "Social Deficits Correlate with Motor Deficits: Commentary on some recent “research” cited by the pro-FC organization United for Communication Choice.", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/10/social-deficits-correlate-with-motor.html", "published_at": "2023-10-19T15:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275f2794c5", "title": "From Frankenstein to Facilitated Communication", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-frankenstein-to-facilitated.html", "published_at": "2023-10-11T13:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275f431cb0", "title": "A critique of United for Communication Choice’s “facts” page", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-critique-of-united-for-communication.html", "published_at": "2023-10-03T16:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275f6c81ac", "title": "Back to School Edition: At What Point Do Accommodations Start Resembling Facilitated Communication?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/09/back-to-school-edition-at-what-point-do.html", "published_at": "2023-09-14T21:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b275feb45a6", "title": "Should professors embrace ChatGPT and other LLMs?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/09/should-professors-embrace-chatgpt-and.html", "published_at": "2023-09-06T13:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b276053dd46", "title": "How might touch reduce the cognitive load of FCed typers?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-might-touch-reduce-cognitive-load.html", "published_at": "2023-08-31T12:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27606e5c09", "title": "Research on camouflaging in autism is built on sand", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/research-on-camouflaging-in-autism-is.html", "published_at": "2023-08-25T21:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2760fa6e81", "title": "Right-brained science: the myth of the finches", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/right-brained-science-myth-of-finches.html", "published_at": "2023-08-22T19:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2761d4a5d6", "title": "Spellers but not Readers? Do facilitated individuals ever read books?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/spellers-but-not-readers-do-facilitated.html", "published_at": "2023-08-18T19:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27627c96c0", "title": "Do sex differences in autism symptomology explain the sex differences in diagnosis rates?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/do-sex-differences-in-autism.html", "published_at": "2023-08-11T14:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27631ede5c", "title": "How a critique of FC replaced a critique of ABA in a journal dedicated to free speech", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-critique-of-fc-replaced-critique-of.html", "published_at": "2023-08-04T16:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2763c6df4e", "title": "Hot off the presses: my critique of FC on Index on Censorship", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/hot-off-presses-my-critique-of-fc-on.html", "published_at": "2023-07-28T20:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b276429838a", "title": "Does a subgroup of minimally-speaking autistic individuals have close-to-normal comprehension skills?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/does-subgroup-of-minimally-speaking.html", "published_at": "2023-07-22T22:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27648a0d31", "title": "Going on automatic: should technology supplant penmanship, composition, and translation?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/going-on-automatic-should-technology.html", "published_at": "2023-07-18T12:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2764b729f4", "title": "Drexel talk on autism basics", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/drexel-talk-on-autism-basics.html", "published_at": "2023-07-12T16:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b276596599a", "title": "What is \"independent typing\"?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-is-independent-typing.html", "published_at": "2023-07-10T13:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27663feb9a", "title": "How “non-speaking” and those who call themselves “non-speakers” muddy the waters in facilitated communication", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-non-speaking-and-those-who-call.html", "published_at": "2023-07-06T12:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2766d93641", "title": "Does progressive education have to mean watered down math?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/07/does-progressive-education-have-to-mean.html", "published_at": "2023-07-01T23:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b2767d80696", "title": "Joyful classrooms?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/06/joyful-classrooms.html", "published_at": "2023-06-26T19:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b276841f456", "title": "Why no one can learn their first language without engaging in joint attention behaviors", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/06/why-no-one-can-learn-their-first.html", "published_at": "2023-06-22T12:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b27689a3e45", "title": "It's not just non-cognitive skills that are (supposedly) undervalued", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/06/its-not-just-non-cognitive-skills-that.html", "published_at": "2023-06-14T14:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-e40a-7037-88f1-0b276987b529", "title": "Are autistic individuals really as socially motivated as the rest of us?", "url": "https://oilf.blogspot.com/2023/06/are-autistic-individuals-really-as.html", "published_at": "2023-06-08T13:20:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Find me on Substack and at FacilitatedCommunication.orgoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
FC Past and Present: A Now-Normalized Routine that Solves Nothingoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
Can HoloLens lessons liberate S2Ced individuals from their facilitators?—plus a recap of Jaswal et al.’s 2023-2025 virtual reality oeuvreoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2026

2025

Can the HoloGaze liberate S2Ced individuals from their facilitators?original ↗
19 Dec 2025
Can Jaswal’s “LetterBoxes” substitute for letterboards?original ↗
4 Dec 2025
Can Jaswal’s “HoloBoards” substitute for letterboards? Part IIoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
Can Jaswal’s “HoloBoards” substitute for letterboards? Part Ioriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
University of Minnesota Center for Genomics Engineering on “Celebrating Emelia: Science for All”original ↗
20 Oct 2025
Our communication rights paper is out!original ↗
8 Oct 2025
Jefferson Public Radio on “Medford psychiatrist’s research into autism and telepathy sparks debate over communication”original ↗
2 Oct 2025
Cincinnati local news and NPR Weekend Edition on Jakob Jordanoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
Twitter suspensions and their aftermathoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2025
University of Toronto Magazine on “When Words Won’t Cooperate”original ↗
3 Sept 2025
Disability Scoop on “Communication Method Finally Gives Nonverbal Woman A Voice”original ↗
21 Aug 2025
FC/RPM/S2C News Roundup: January to July, 2025original ↗
7 Aug 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part VII, The Conclusionoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part VIoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial, Part Voriginal ↗
2 Jul 2025
A linguist's take on linguists' takesoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part IVoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part IIIoriginal ↗
28 May 2025
Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part IIoriginal ↗
15 May 2025
Spelling to Communicate goes to trialoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
Just out--a review of Richard Phelps' The Malfunction of U.S. Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishnessoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2025
When nothing else works: Blaming the scientific method instead of the pseudoscienceoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2025
How FC myths coincide with edu-myths—and why even those who don’t believe in telepathy are primed to believe in FCoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
Fighting FC pseudoscience requires a broader critique of paranormal beliefs—here’s mineoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2025
Channeling lies on the Telepathy Tapes—including lies about autism and lyingoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
Whose Voice? A review of Makayla’s Voiceoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2025
Scrambling the spectrum, flattening the curve, and making FC seem more plausibleoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2025
The Informed SLP attempts to discuss my paper on Gestalt Language Processingoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
News Roundup, May, 2024 to December, 2024 Uncritical reports of S2C and RPM breakthroughsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025

2024

RFK Jr. and FC-Adjacent Beliefs: from chelation to Planet X to calculus in a dayoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2024
My single most controversial slide at ASHAoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
In which Vikram Jaswal fails to establish the authenticity of S2C for non-speakersoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2024
Actually this is mostly about you—and (indirectly) about FCoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2024
Just out: journalist Zaid Jilani's piece on autism pseudo-science!original ↗
21 Oct 2024
And open letter to practitioners of speech therapy based on "Natural Language Processing"/"Gestalt Language Processing" principlesoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2024
A linguist's take on Gestalt Language Processingoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
Autism pseudoscience updateoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2024
Unreliable speech? “So they tell me, and they certainly speak truth, for my Lady says the same”original ↗
27 Aug 2024
New takes on apraxia, miracles, presuming competence et al. from S2C proponentsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2024
Autism and Abstract Thinkingoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
Early Works by Barry Prizant: Laying the groundwork for disbelief in FCoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Tell Them It’s Not Hate Speech: FC, facilitator crimes, and the ethically compromised world of disability studiesoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2024
Recapping some reasons why language is impaired in autism—and why degree of impairment correlates with autism severityoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2024
Recent findings about language comprehension in minimal speakers with autismoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2024
Should Schools Dedicate Time to Grit and Growth Mindset?original ↗
26 Jun 2024
On Chalk & Talk--Math and Autism with Anna Stokkeoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2024
Has AI gotten any better at reading since 2019?original ↗
11 Jun 2024
Some possible revelations on what goes on in facilitators’ heads when they facilitate big projectsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
19th Century English Vocabularyoriginal ↗
23 May 2024
News Roundup, May 2022 to April, 2024: Uncritical reports of S2C and RPM breakthroughsoriginal ↗
17 May 2024
19th century English syntaxoriginal ↗
8 May 2024
Virtual facilitation: a means to independence or yet another high-tech distraction?original ↗
1 May 2024
Disability-Ability Matching Testoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2024
A psychologist overlooks the science and a journalist, the full storyoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2024
Autism Acceptance Month--what do we accept these days as autistic?original ↗
11 Apr 2024
From Literacy to “Support Needs” to “Communication Boards”: How vague guidelines enable non-evidence based claims and practicesoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2024
Facilitated messages attributed to different people show distinctive styles, but this fails to rule out complete facilitator controloriginal ↗
20 Mar 2024
Life lessons from programmingoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2024
Illusions of literacy in nonspeaking autistic people: a response to Jaswal et al. 2024original ↗
6 Mar 2024
From proto-syntax to actual syntaxoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part IIoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2024
Several reasons to doubt that rates of autism are going uporiginal ↗
15 Feb 2024
Myths about myths, validity, and natural message-passing tests, Part Ioriginal ↗
8 Feb 2024
News rundown: more non-academic requirement in schoolsoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2024
Why apraxia can’t explain away the need for physical touch, held-up letterboards, or hovering promptersoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2024
Falling for Happiness Falls: Is it too much to ask we overcome our skepticism and just believe?original ↗
10 Jan 2024
Spellers but not Readers--update re peripheral visionoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

Can facilitator influence be reduced to co-construction of meaning?original ↗
20 Dec 2023
Are autism rates really going up? And why are there so few moderately autistic kids?original ↗
13 Dec 2023
Might non-speaking individuals with autism be brilliant?original ↗
7 Dec 2023
Highlights from this month’s ASHA conferenceoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2023
Another Side Effect of FC: Alternative Factsoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2023
Malapropism watchoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2023
FC-friendly trends in autism diagnosesoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2023
Grit, revisitedoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2023
Social Deficits Correlate with Motor Deficits: Commentary on some recent “research” cited by the pro-FC organization United for Communication Choice.original ↗
19 Oct 2023
From Frankenstein to Facilitated Communicationoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2023
A critique of United for Communication Choice’s “facts” pageoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2023
Back to School Edition: At What Point Do Accommodations Start Resembling Facilitated Communication?original ↗
14 Sept 2023
Should professors embrace ChatGPT and other LLMs?original ↗
6 Sept 2023
How might touch reduce the cognitive load of FCed typers?original ↗
31 Aug 2023
Research on camouflaging in autism is built on sandoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2023
Right-brained science: the myth of the finchesoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2023
Spellers but not Readers? Do facilitated individuals ever read books?original ↗
18 Aug 2023
Do sex differences in autism symptomology explain the sex differences in diagnosis rates?original ↗
11 Aug 2023
How a critique of FC replaced a critique of ABA in a journal dedicated to free speechoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2023
Hot off the presses: my critique of FC on Index on Censorshiporiginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
Does a subgroup of minimally-speaking autistic individuals have close-to-normal comprehension skills?original ↗
22 Jul 2023
Going on automatic: should technology supplant penmanship, composition, and translation?original ↗
18 Jul 2023
Drexel talk on autism basicsoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2023
What is "independent typing"?original ↗
10 Jul 2023
How “non-speaking” and those who call themselves “non-speakers” muddy the waters in facilitated communicationoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2023
Does progressive education have to mean watered down math?original ↗
1 Jul 2023
Joyful classrooms?original ↗
26 Jun 2023
Why no one can learn their first language without engaging in joint attention behaviorsoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2023
It's not just non-cognitive skills that are (supposedly) undervaluedoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2023
Are autistic individuals really as socially motivated as the rest of us?original ↗
8 Jun 2023
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