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The facilitator's hand steered the typing and spoke the children's words
A silent child types sentences while a facilitator’s hand guides her - facilitated communication promises a voice, but whose words are they?
The facilitator's hand steered the typing and spoke the children's words
In this episode, we lay out the rise of facilitated communication and the central moment that forced a single question about authorship into the center of disability medicine. We trace how diagnostic limits, parental desperation, and a simple test exposed a hidden mechanism that changed countless families' lives - but what did that test actually show?
Person: Douglas Biklen
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