facilitated communication meaning

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Facilitated Communication (FC), or supported typing, is a discredited technique used by some caregivers and educators in an attempt to assist people with severe educational and communication disabilities.
There is widespread agreement within the scientific community and multiple disability advocacy organizations that facilitators, not the person with the communication disability, are the source of all or most messages obtained through FC,
Most experts in disability studies consider FC to be a pseudoscience that causes great risk and emotional distress to people with communication disabilities, their families and their caregivers.

Definition of facilitated communication in English Dictionary

NounSUF-ication
1. The technique of assisting a person with a disability to communicate by helping them to point out letters of the alphabet on a board so as to spell a message.

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