It's time to stop exposing people to the dangers of Facilitated Communication
- Written by Bronwyn Hemsley, Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney
Facilitated Communication began in Australia in the 1980s.Shutterstock
Anna Stubblefield, an ex-Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy, was convicted in 2015 of the rape of an intellectually and physically disabled man after falsely obtaining his consent for sex via a technique known as Facilitated Communication (FC).
Stubblefield was originally...
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