Advocates of "spelling to communicate" claim it can help nonverbal people communicate with words. Top-level experts have criticized the method and said the people are "cued" to point to the letters.

This two-part conference will address the resurgence of new variants of facilitated communication (FC) that have appeared across the country, including in the Philadelphia area. A school in Newtown ...

“Once I sluggishly died to the idea of talking, my mind was free to roam.” Those words begin a poem written by Richie Specht, 27, using what is known as the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). The poem was ...

LAWRENCE — Working in schools as an occupational therapist and board-certified behavior analyst, Gretchen Scheibel would often see students, parents and educators at crisis points. Though youths ...

At 18 years old, these North Texas twins with autism are able to communicate through a technique called the Rapid Prompting Method. Senate Democrats block government funding bill for 13th time Car ...

On May 10, 2023, the journal Nature stooped to a new low when it credulously highlighted one of the most rampant forms of pseudoscience in the world of autism. Facilitated communication, a method that ...