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Month: November 2018

Why is Facilitated Communication making a comeback? (Part I)

November 27, 2018January 21, 2019 ~ katharinepbeals ~ 1 Comment

(I, too, am making a comeback, after suddenly becoming intensely busy with a small NSF grant–more on that later).

This post continues a series I’ve promised would take us to “highly contagious and dangerously inaccurate meme about what autism is.”

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I can read this !

November 1, 2018January 21, 2019 ~ Catherine ~ Leave a comment

Hi everyone – long time, no see – it’s so frustrating not to have more time to write (!)

I’m putting this post up on the fly. 

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