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Call on Researchers, Not Filmmakers, to Test Facilitated Communication: A Commentary on Spellers 

May 24, 2023 Jill Escher

Amy Lutz argues that we must turn to objective science, not slickly edited documentary films, to test the agency of people with autism using facilitated communication.

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In communication Tags facilitated communication, nonverbal autism, Amy Lutz, Jenny McCarthy, J.B. Handley, Spellers, Pat Notaro
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What Are You Doing With Those Old Train Toys? The Story of an Autistic Man on a Mission

April 20, 2022 Jill Escher

His parents were panicking when he fled the house, but all along Alex harbored a secret mission.

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Tags nonverbal autism
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Please respond to urgent need for evidence-based services for adults with ASD

October 19, 2021 Jill Escher

“For those of us in the trenches, living with and supporting an adult with severe autism, [lack of services] is an issue of how to stave off the suffering and misery that lie in his future when we can no longer protect him.”

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In Adult Services Tags IACC, Adults, profound autism, aba therapy, Housing, day programs, evidence-based, severe autism, nonverbal autism
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