Monday, April 4, 2011

Facilitated Communication (FC) enables non-verbal people on autism spectrum to communicate by typing

Mike Frandsen, of the DC Examiner, has written this extensive and detailed article about several people with autism who learned to communicate by typing using facilitated communication training techniques, which includes a video of Chammi Rajapatirana typing independently.

Facilitated Communication (FC) enables non-verbal people on autism spectrum to communicate by typing
“Thank you for inviting us today. I utterly happy to be here with you. I am a person with autism.” Chammi Rajapatirana, a 36-year old writer, poet, and advoc ate with autism, typed those words independently during a presentation about Facilitated Communication (FC) in Sri Lanka in 2009. . . .
http://www.examiner.com/dc-in-national/facilitated-communication-fc-enables-non-verbal-people-on-autism-spectrum-to-communicate-by-typing?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4cc6f02815e6e105%2C0


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