Facilitated Communication

Kathleen Miles

Nonverbal Teen Labeled 'Mentally Retarded' Stuns Family

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 01.12.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- For the first seven years of Jacob Artson's life, his family believed the doctors who labeled their nonverbal son with autism as "menta...

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The Coma Man Hoax: Rom Houben's "Communication" Is "Ideomotor" Ouija Board Effect

Michael Shermer | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael Shermer

Sorry to be the spoiler of a feel-good story -- that of Rom Houben, the Belgian man who allegedly "woke up" from a 23-year long coma -- but the hard truth must win out over hopeful emotions.

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Obama and Autism

Elaine Hall | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elaine Hall

We found that Obama speaks for all people who cannot speak. Who do not have a voice, literally and figuratively. Somehow, some way, my son with severe autism had picked up this truth.

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