See me, hear me, touch me. ('facilitated communication' for autistic people) (includes related article)

U.S. News & World Report | July 27, 1992| | Copyright

Does a controversial new tool offer a window on the autistic mind?

Ben Lehr is a columnist for his high-school newspaper - no small triumph for an autistic kid whose teachers believed he couldn't even spell. When 13-year-old Richard Meives recently told his father, "I love you," it was a first for the boy with Down's syndrome and autistic behaviors who was thought incapable of expressing emotion. Kurtis Schiller, 8, can rattle off the temperature of Venus and other arcane facts about the solar system. In school the child was being taught his colors, but it turned out ...

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