Telepathy via Facilitated Communication in Profound Autism: A 21st-Century Delusion

Katharine Beals traces the persistence of facilitated communication (FC) and its modern variants to a convergence of social, educational, and cultural forces, arguing that profound autism's communication challenges create fertile ground for the belief that hidden language abilities can be "unlocked."

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https://skepticalinquirer.org/2026/08/telepathy-via-facilitated-communication-in-profound-autism-a-21st-century-delusion/

About the Author:

Katharine Beals, PhD, is lecturer at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, an adjunct professor at the Drexel University and Temple University schools of education, and the author of numerous books and articles on language, literacy, math instruction, and problems with current practices in K–12 classrooms.

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