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Facilitated communication (FC), or supported typing, is a scientifically discredited technique [1] which claims to allow non-verbal people, such as those with autism, to communicate. The technique involves a facilitator guiding the disabled person's arm or hand in an attempt to help them type on a keyboard or other such device that they are ...
Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. [1] [2] That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.
Augmentative and alternative communication is typically much slower than speech, [67] with users generally producing 8–10 words per minute. [51] Rate enhancement strategies can increase the user's rate of output to around 12–15 words per minute, [51] and as a result enhance the efficiency of communication. There are two main options for ...
Some of his early research provided evidence that sad children learn better than happy children. [7] He began researching autism when his daughter was diagnosed with the condition. [2] Jaswal's recent research focuses on augmentative communication methods, including facilitated communication for non-speaking autistic
These rules are usually reiterated in some form at the outset of a facilitated meeting or workshop to ensure participants understand the various roles being employed and the responsibilities accorded to each. Certain aspects feature highly such as: being open to suggestions; building on what is there, not knocking down ideas
Facilitated communication, a technique in which a facilitator supports a person with disabilities at the arm, wrist or hand during the process of typing on a letter board, is closely related to RPM. Controlled studies in the 1990s determined that, when facilitators did not know the answers to questions being asked through FC, the answers were ...
The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems, published in 2011, is a self-help book by Stephen Covey, also the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In it, he takes a more detailed look at habit six from that book, "synergize". [ 1 ]
It is an alternative model to the bureaucratic model known as Taylorism. [1] There is not a clear definition of the high performance organization, but research shows that organizations that fit this model all hold a common set of characteristics.