Kezuka E
Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Japan.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1997 Oct;27(5):571-93. doi: 10.1023/a:1025882127478.
Imagine that one day a nonverbal autistic child suddenly starts to type messages, such as "I am not retarded," using a computer keyboard while being touched by an assistant. Facilitated communication (FC) appears to create this miracle around the world. To understand how this works, experiments were conducted involving a "telepathy game" using a rod with an attached strain gauge. A force from the assistant, which controlled what was spelled through physical support, was measured. It was thus completely possible for any message to appear to be typed with FC regardless of the autistic child's actual knowledge or language ability.
想象一下，有一天，一个不会说话的自闭症儿童在助手触摸其身体时，突然开始使用电脑键盘打出诸如“我不弱智”这样的信息。辅助沟通（FC）似乎在世界各地创造了这样的奇迹。为了弄清楚这是如何实现的，人们进行了一些实验，其中包括使用一根连接了应变仪的杆进行“心灵感应游戏”。实验测量了助手施加的力，而正是这股力通过身体支撑控制着打出的内容。因此，无论自闭症儿童的实际知识或语言能力如何，任何信息都完全有可能看似是通过辅助沟通打出来的。
