Regal R A, Rooney J R, Wandas T
Young Adult Institute, Tarrytown, New York.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1994 Jun;24(3):345-55. doi: 10.1007/BF02172232.
Nineteen participants in a day treatment program for the developmentally disabled participated in this validation study of facilitated communication (FC). Subjects and facilitators had been involved in FC and judged competent by supervisors of the FC project at the facility. An information-passing design was used requiring short-term recall of one randomly selected stimulus card at a time. Cards varied by the shape, the color of that shape, and the number of that shape used on each card. Results failed to validate facilitated communication for the group as a whole, any individual facilitator, or any of the subjects. The closeness of the results to chance expectations from an experiment designed to validate only the most elemental claims of FC suggests that extraordinary caution be accorded any claims of communication that are the sole product of FC.
19名参加发育障碍日间治疗项目的参与者参与了这项辅助沟通（FC）的验证研究。受试者和辅助者都参与过辅助沟通，并被该机构FC项目的主管判定为具备能力。采用了信息传递设计，每次需要短期回忆一张随机抽取的刺激卡片。卡片的形状、该形状的颜色以及每张卡片上该形状的数量各不相同。结果未能验证辅助沟通对整个群体、任何个体辅助者或任何受试者的有效性。该结果与仅为验证FC最基本主张而设计的实验中偶然预期的接近程度表明，对于任何仅由FC产生的沟通主张都应格外谨慎。
