An experimental analysis of facilitated communication.

An experimental analysis of facilitated communication.

We evaluated the authorship of messages produced through facilitated communication by 7 adults with moderate or severe mental retardation and their facilitators. The clients had been reported to be communicating fluently through facilitated communication. We controlled the facilitators' access to information to be communicated in two evaluation formats, naming pictures and describing activities...

Authorship in facilitated communication: an analysis of 11 cases.

We studied the authorship of messages produced through facilitated communication (FC) for all users of FC in two comprehensive schools in a small city in Finland. The participants were 11 children with intellectual disabilities, including autism, all having used FC from 1-3 years. The test conditions involved open and blind information-passing tasks in which the participants were directed to wr...

an infinite planar array of rectangular microstrip patch antenna analysis

the methods which are used to analyze microstrip antennas, are divited into three categories: empirical methods, semi-empirical methods and full-wave analysis. empirical and semi-empirical methods are generally based on some fundamental simplifying assumptions about quality of surface current distribution and substrate thickness. thses simplificatioms cause low accuracy in field evaluation. ful...

An Experimental Multimedia Communication System

ETHMICS is a testbed to investigate various aspects of multimedia communication in a high speed networked environment such as B-ISDN. With a view to realistic application experiments, a multimedia workstation has been developed, yielding new insights about workstation architecture and local access arrangements. In terms of software, ETHMICS is based on an object-oriented application framework. ...

Questions concerning facilitated communication: response to Duchan.