FC Users' Writing
My New Years Wishes: Gene Marcus
My new years wishes are for all my brothers and sisters who do not speak. My wish is for a voice for each of us -- a voice quiet and loud, a voice calm and angry, a voice speaking above those who don't want to hear, and making them listen and listen with their hearts. read more...
How FC Users and Their Professional Supporters Can Define and Defend Success in Facilitated Communication: Eugene Marcus
Very few success stories are agreed on by everyone. Before I could use FC, my success could only be measured by how often I did what I was told. How that just burns me up, to think that I was considered most successful at those times when I was least myself. read more...
I Deserve to be Heard: Sharisa Kochmeister
I DESERVE TO BE HEARD. IF MY NAME AND IMAGE ARE USED, WHY NOT MY WORDS? WE NEED TO FIGHT BIGOTRY WITH ONE LOUD UNIFIED VOICE. read more...
Relentless Activism: Excerpts from Letters and Speeches: Tyler Fihe
Tyler Fihe shares poems, letters to senators, conference presentation, graduation speeches, or a letter to an IEP board, presented at the Narrating dis/Ability conference in Syracuse, NY, April, 2002. read more...
More Articles:
- The View from Huntington College -- II
- View from Huntington College, The
- The Jenn and Gene Comedy Hour
- Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- A Recipe for Success
- On Doing One's Homework
- Killing Autism is a Constant Battle
- Independent Typing
- In the Footsteps of Cesar Chavez
- Castigating Assumptions About Mental Retardation and Low Functioning Autism
- A Brief Account of my Life with FC
- Knowing and Longing
- On Being Mute
- Letter of Introduction
- How Things Have Changed
- Me and Lanny
- FC Was the Key
- Helping Facilitated Communication Speakers Make Friends
- My New Years Wishes
- Outrigging the Partnership: Reflections on Collaborative Songwriting
- On Almost Becoming a Person
- My Life Among The Chatterers
- How FC Users and their Professional Supporters Can Define and Defend Success in Facilitated Communication
- Compulsion, and Yes, Freedom Too
- Advice to Peer Supporters
- A Gathering of the Lonesome Doves
- Excerpts from Shattering Walls
- Reflections on a Year of Turmoil and Growth
- I Deserve To Be Heard
- FC and Me
- Taming the Untameable -poem
- It's Your Move
- Relentless Activism: Excerpts from Letters and Speeches
- In Memory of Gunnar Dybwad
- Why Retards Are Sad in This World
- The School of my Dreams
- Celebrating 25 Years of IDEA
- Beyond Questions and Answers: Free Expression Through Art and Words
- Learning About Independent Typing from People Working to Achieve It
- My Half of the Tide
- Letter
- In the Real World
- Speaking Freely
- Not Comprehending is Not All the Time: Not Comprehending is not the Same as Not Thinking
- Gathering of the "Lonesome Doves"
- On Almost Becoming a Person
- How FC Users and their Professional Supporters Can Define and Defend Success in Facilitated Communication.
- Advice to Peer Supporters