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Publication Date: 1994
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What If...: A Plea to Professionals to Consider the Risk-Benefit Ratio of Facilitated Communication.
Levine, Karen; And Others
Mental Retardation, v32 n4 p300-04 Aug 1994
This examination of the risks and benefits of using facilitated communication with individuals having autism or mental retardation concludes that the risks to these individuals, to families and teachers, and to society of this unsupported methodology are great and that the development of independent augmentative communication strategies is more desirable. (DB)
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Intervention, Mental Retardation, Risk, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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