Out In Left Field

Science of Human Writing Facilitated Communication And occasional, as other topics arise, back here at OILF.

A few weeks ago, I encountered something that surprised me: a full-length documentary about profound autism.

Over the past couple of years, S2C proponent Vikram Jaswal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and the father of an S2C user, and Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary and t…

Over the past couple of years, S2C proponent Vikram Jaswal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and the father of an S2C user, and Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary and t…

Can Jaswal’s “LetterBoxes” substitute for letterboards?

This post picks up where I left off in my discussion of a recent paper co-authored by Vikram Jaswal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and the father of an S2C user, and Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engin…

Over the past couple of years, S2C proponent Vikram Jaswal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and the father of an S2C user, and Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary and t…

Continuing my closer look at some of the news items from our recent news roundup, I now turn to a June 26th article on the University of Minnesota Center for Genomics Engineering website entitled Celebrating Emelia: Science for All.

Despite all the pressure from self-styled neurodiversity and disability rights advocates who support facilitated communication, Rapid Prompting Method, and Spelling to Communicate, a reputable journal dared to publish it You can access the entire article…

Continuing my closer look at some of the news items from our recent news roundup, I now turn to a May 2nd piece on Jefferson Public Radio entitled Medford psychiatrist’s research into autism and telepathy sparks debate over communication.

Continuing my closer look at some of the news items from our recent news roundup, I now turn to three items that focus on the son of Cincinnati radio personality Jenn Jordan.

Every so often my Twitter suspension comes up on social media, with various detractors of mine voicing different theories about why I was suspended from Twitter.

In this post, I’ll focus on a second news item from my recent news roundup: a January 23rd article in the University of Toronto Magazine entitled When Words Won’t Cooperate.

In the next few posts, I’ll be looking at some of the news items from our recent news roundup in greater depth.

It’s been about 6 months since our last news roundup of FC/S2C/RPM, and we just finished our seven-part series on the Lower Merion trial, so we thought it appropriate to roundup and post the FC/S2C/RPM. news items that have come out since the turn of the…

This is the seventh and final installment in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

This is the sixth installment in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

This is the sixth installment in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

If you want to critique a linguist's paper, you don't need a PhD in linguistics.

This is the fourth part in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

This is the third part in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part II This is the second part in a series on a Spelling to Communicate (S2C) lawsuit against a school district.

After three months of talking about telepathy, I’m changing the subject to courtroom drama.

This is an important book making key points others haven't thought of--or dared to say.

The world of facilitated communication and variants (RPM, S2C, Spellers Method) is heavily fortified against researchers and skeptics.