Communication Resources

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  • Biklen, Douglas. “Communication unbound: How facilitated communication is challenging traditional views of autism and ability/disability.” Teachers College Press , NY, NY. (1993).   The author, other caregivers, and parents are followed as they learn about facilitated communication, experience its successes and failures, and confront the controversies surrounding its use.
  • Biklen, Douglas Ed, and Donald N. Cardinal. Contested words, contested science: Unraveling the facilitated communication controversy. Teachers College Press, 1997.
  • Crossley, Rosemary. “Annie’s Coming Out.” New York: Penguin Books. 1984.
  • Crossley, Rosemary. “Getting the words out: Case studies in facilitated communication training.” Topics in Language Disorders 12.4 (1992): 46-59.
  • Crossley, Rosemary. Speechless: Facilitating Communication for People without Voices. Dutton, Penguin, NY, NY. 1997.
  • Eberlin, Michael, et al. “Facilitated communication: A failure to replicate the phenomenon.” Journal of autism and developmental disorders 23.3 (1993): 507-530.
  • Donnellan, Anne M., Laural A. Sabin, and L. Ann Majure. “Facilitated communication: Beyond the quandary to the questions.” Topics in Language Disorders 12.4 (1992): 69-82.
  • Erevelles, Nirmala. Signs of Reason; Rivière, Facilitated Communication, and the Crisis of the Subject. Shelley Tremain (Ed.) Foucault and the Government of Disability: The University of Michigan Press. 2005.
  • Green, Gina. “Facilitated communication: Mental miracle or sleight of hand.”Behavior and Social Issues 4.1 (1994).
  • Hodge, Suzanne. “Why is the potential of augmentative and alternative communication not being realized? Exploring the experiences of people who use communication aids.” Disability & Society. 22:5. 457-471. (2007).
  • Jacobson, John W., James A. Mulick, and Allen A. Schwartz. “A history of facilitated communication: Science, pseudoscience, and antiscience science working group on facilitated communication.” American Psychologist 50.9 (1995): 750.
  • Kasa-Hendrikson, C. “Typing to communicate: Understanding facilitated communication.” Autism Advocate. 43 (2006, May): 20-34.
  • Mirenda, P. & Iacono, T. Autism spectrum disorders and AAC. Baltimore,Maryland: Brookes Publishing. 2008.
  • Morton, Missy. “Silenced in the court: meanings of research and difference in the US legal system.” Disability & Society. 24(7): 883-895. 2009.
  • Mostert, Mark P. Facilitated communication and its legitimacy—Twenty-first century developments. Exceptionality, 18 (2010), 31-41.
  • Mostert, Mark P. “Facilitated communication since 1995: a review of published studies.” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 31.3 (2001): 287-313.
  • Mukhopadhyay, Tito. The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks Through The Silence of Autism. Arcade Publishing. 2003.
  • Mukhopadhyay, Tito Rajarshi. How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move? Inside my autistic mind. New York: Arcade Publishing. 2008.
  • Pralferman, J. “The Australian origins of facilitated communication.” In H. Shane(Ed.), Facilitated Communication: The clinical and social phenomenon. 33-56. San Diego, CA; Singular Publishing Group. 1994.
  • Sequenza, Amy. (2012). Non-Speaking, “Low Functioning.” In Loud Hands. Printed by The Autistic Self Advocacy Network. 159-161.
  • Shane, H. (1994a). Establishing the source of communication. In H. Shane (Ed.). Facilitated Communication: The clinical and social phenomenon. 259-298. San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.
  • Shane, H. (1994b). The facilitated nightmare. The dark side of facilitated communication. In H. Shane (Ed.). Facilitated Communication: The clinical and social phenomenon. 299-319. San Diego, CA. Singular Publishing Group.
  • Simpson, R. L., & Myles, B. S. (1995). Effectiveness of facilitated communication with children and youth with autism. Journal of Special Education, 28, 424-39.
  • Stock, Barbara. (2011). Mixed Messages: Validity and Ethics of Facilitated Communication. Disability Studies Quarterly. Vol. 31 (4)
  • Todd, James T. (2012). The moral obligation to be empirical: Comments on Boynton’s “Facilitated Communication – what harm it can do: Confessions of a former facilitator.” Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. 6:1, 36-57.