Authorship in facilitated communication – an analysis of 11 cases
Saloviita, T., Leppänen, M., & Ojalammi, U. (2014). Authorship in facilitated communication – an analysis of 11 cases. Augmentative and alternative communication, 30(3), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.3109/07434618.2014.927529
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We studied the authorship of messages produced through facilitated communication (FC) for all users of FC in two comprehensive schools in a small city in Finland. The participants were 11 children with intellectual disabilities, including autism, all having used FC from 1 to 3 years. The test conditions involved open and blind information-passing tasks in which the participants were directed to write down the contents of written or pictorial stimuli. The results failed to validate FC as a method of communication for any participant or facilitator. An analysis of the messages produced under the FC condition revealed a large degree of facilitator influence on the content of the messages produced. Additionally, FC impaired the performance of the two participants who had previously demonstrated some independent writing skills.
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