Scamming Autistic People: Exposing Facilitated Communication

Janyce Boynton used to be a facilitator who was helping non-verbal autistic people communicate. She soon found out this was all a horrible scam that was taking advantage of these vulnerable people and their families. So she set to work exposing the whole deal. This is her story. #facilitatedcommunication #scam Resources and Further Reading: https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8441353/ https://archive.org/details/Prisoners... https://www.facilitatedcommunication....    • Session 19 | The Return of Facilitated Com...   https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.facilitatedcommunication.... https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Edge-L... https://www.amazon.com/Students-Autis... Questions, suggestions or just want to get in touch? Find me on Instagram and Twitter @berationable and on Facebook @Rationable. Join the conversation on the Rationable Conversations Facebook group and email me at [email protected]. For more content like this, visit www.berationable.com. 00:00 Introduction 00:57 What is Facilitated Communication? 01:55 What are the conditions for which facilitated communication is used? 02:25 Janyce as a facilitator 03:22 Did you work with some of these autistic people? 04:00 Janyce's journey from facilitator to activist 10:00 How did you discover you were deceiving yourself? 20:03 Are there people in the field who are knowingly taking advantage of autistic people? 26:02 Could this method have any benefits? 28:18 How is FC still a thing? How can its organisations get away with it? 31:51 Do we know what part of the brain affects speech in autistic people? 33:44 Is there a science-based method to help non-verbal autistic people to communicate? 34:53 What are the ways we can identify FC? 36:10 The other names of facilitated communication 40:06 What could be the the motives behind Facilitators? 41:59 Janyce's activism 43:54 How to get in touch with Janyce