Courtesy of the Daily Grail, there's an interesting blog article in the Guardian by Chris French and Michael Marshall (of the Merseyside Skeptics [sic] Society), questioning whether a child suffering from severe cerebral palsy is really able to communicate with the help of a facilitator, or whether the supposed communications are spurious. A similar Belgian case is cited, where tests showed the communication failed when the facilitator was unaware of the facts to be communicated:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog...t-question
I think this is obviously potentially relevant to Diane Hennacy Powell's studies of severely autistic children.
[Edit: It's really genuine facilitated communication that is potentially relevant to Dr Powell's studies, not the spurious kind.]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog...t-question
I think this is obviously potentially relevant to Diane Hennacy Powell's studies of severely autistic children.
[Edit: It's really genuine facilitated communication that is potentially relevant to Dr Powell's studies, not the spurious kind.]