International Perspectives
The Italian Experience
A paper delivered On May 4th, 1998 at the Syracuse Facilitated Communication Conference.
In the spring of 1992, during a visit to Florida, I had the opportunity to watch a video which originated at Syracuse University. A strange communication technique was shown in the video which they called Facilitated Communication. The moment I saw it, I immediately realized the implications suggested by the technique described in the video. I am the mother of Alberto, an autistic boy who at that time was 14 years old. At last all my unexpressed intuitions about what was actually going on in my son's head could possibly be demonstrated.
read more...Assessing the Assessors: A Review of the Triple C Communication Assessment
This article originally appeared in the December, 1999 issue of the DEAL Newsletter.
>I am reacting pre-intentionally to the Triple C, a new assessment tool being used with people with severe communication impairments in Victoria. I know I'm pre-intentional reactive because I assessed myself and that's where I got most ticks. "The Triple C is a communication assessment designed for use with adolescents and adults who have severe or multiple disabilities." (Bloomberg & West, 1999, 1). It is "divided into 6 communicative/cognitive stages -- 3 preintentional stages -- 1)reflexive, ii)reactive, iii)proactive and 3 intentional stages -- iv)informal, v)formal, vi)referential" (ibid., 4).
read more...Facilitated Communication in Central Europe
This article originally appeared in Vol.3 No. 4 (August, 1995) of the Facilitated Communication Digest, [pp.9-10]
>As I travelled through Germany and Switzerland this summer, giving facilitated communication workshops at several locations, one of the questions that was on my mind was, "what can the people here learn from our experiences with facilitated communication in North America?" On my return, my question has become, "what can we here learn from the facilitated communication experiences of those in Central Europe?" read more...
The Italian Experience: Patrizia Cadei
In the spring of 1992, during a visit to Florida, I had the opportunity to watch a video which originated at Syracuse University. A strange communication technique was shown in the video which they called Facilitated Communication. The moment I saw it, I immediately realized the implications suggested by the technique described in the video. I am the mother of Alberto, an autistic boy who at that time was 14 years old. At last all my unexpressed intuitions about what was actually going on in my son's head could possibly be demonstrated. read more...