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Title: Contested Words, Contested Science: Unraveling the Facilitated Communication Controversy (Special Education Series (Teachers College Pr)) by Douglas Biklen, Donald N. Cardinal ISBN: 0-8077-3602-3 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Essential reading for anyone interested in disability.
Comment: Biklen's compilation brings together a collection of double-blind experimental evidence on the reality of facilitated communication that can only be ignored by those people (mainly psychologists) who feel that any positive findings they find unwelcome are automatically suspect. useful for people who want to explore the possibility of taking a new view of the significance of communication handicap in intellectual disability and autism. (I've read the book, by the way: the last (anonymous) reviewer seems to have condemned it unread on the basis of its authorship on the give-a-dog-a-bad-name-and-hang him principle).

Rating: 1
Summary: Possibly just a slight trace of bias?
Comment: Since Douglas Biklen is one of the foremost and most vocal proponents of FC, and since none of the essays in the book are written by the many scientists, researchers, parents and people with autism who have criticised FC, I wonder whether this book is really the best place to start for anyone genuinely interested in "unravelling the facilitated communication controversy".