Posts Tagged ‘Supported Typing’
Facilitated Communication Training Program, Part 6: Skill Building III – Saturday, February 17, 2018
Facilitated Communication Training Program, Part 6: Skill Building III – Saturday, February 17, 2017 Program | Registration Information | Location Our ongoing Training Cycle for Communicators and Support Teams, a series of eight monthly FC Training Workshops, continues with the sixth workshop in the series, Skill Building III, on Saturday, February 17, from 9 AM…
Read MoreIntroduction to Facilitated Communication/Supported Typing Facilitator Training, June 17, 2017
Introduction to Facilitated Communication/Supported Typing Facilitator Training, June 17, 2017 Program | Registration Information | Location We are pleased to announce that Saved By Typing will be hosting the first of a new 8-part series of Facilitated Communication (FC) training programs in Central Indiana, an Introduction to Facilitated Communication/Supported Typing Training Workshop on Saturday June…
Read MoreFacilitated Communication Training Program, Part 2: Foundations Training – Saturday, July 15, 2017
Program | Registration Information | Location Our first of eight FC Training Workshops, an Introduction to Facilitated Communication/Supported Typing on June 17 was a big success. To those of you who attended, thank you for your support. We are pleased to announce that our next workshop in the series, Foundations Training, will take place on…
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Wellspring Guild: Employing Best Practice Standards for Facilitated Communication Training and Support
Facilitated Communication (FC,) also known as Supported Typing (ST) is, put simply, a technique in which physical, communication, and emotional support is provided by a facilitator to an individual with a communication disorder (communicator). Facilitated Communication Training (FCT) is a strategy within the methods of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) where the facilitator provides a…
Read MoreSBT’s Next Celebration of Communication is Saturday April 15, 2017
REGISTER for Our Next Celebration of Communication on Saturday, April 15, 2017 We are pleased to announce that our next Celebration of Communication which will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 4:00 PM. Please join us on the 3rd Saturday of every month for our Celebration of Communication. These informal gatherings provide a…
Read MoreNonverbal Autistic’s Brother Shows Support by “Racing for a Voice”
Joey and Clayton Tharpe are loving brothers. Unfortunately, as much as he wanted to, for 27 years Clayton was unable to tell his brother that he loved him. The reason for this is that Clayton has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that made him unable to speak or communicate in any effective way with his…
Read More3rd Annual Rethinking Autism Conference Returns April 20-21, 2017
Click to Scroll Down to Event & Registration Details After last years highly successful event, Optimal Rhythms, Inc. / ACCESS Academy will host the 3rd Annual Rethinking Autism Conference this April, which is National Autism Awareness Month, an initiative created to “promote autism awareness, inclusion and self-determination for all, and assure that each person…
Read MoreOne Parent’s Response to Lisa Brady’s Attack on Facilitated Communication
As we mentioned in our article “The New FC Debate, Round 3: Another “Expert” Enters the Fight,” Lisa Brady, M.Ed., a so-called “autism expert,” has entered the fray in an effort to throw the worst light possible on the use of FC to help nonverbal autistics communicate. In January, Brady distributed an email with the…
Read MoreThe New FC Debate, Round 3: Another “Expert” Enters the Fight
A few weeks ago, we first reported about the latest round of attacks on the efficacy of facilitated communication (FC) in the post “Join the Fight Against Attack on Nonverbal Autistics’ Right to Communicate.” after author David Auerbach published his controversial article “Facilitated Communication Is a Cult That Won’t Die,” on Slate.com. In our post,…
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