Who made this site, and why.

FacilitatedCommunication.com was built by contributors from varied backgrounds — researchers, educators, speech-language pathologists, psychologists, physicians, occupational therapists, behaviorists, parents, typers, and spellers. Many of us began with questions or reservations. We stayed open enough to learn directly from people who teach, study, support, and use these methods.

We built this site because the public conversation about facilitated and assisted communication has been frozen since the 1990s. The first page of search results still describes a practice and a population that today's communicators, families, and clinicians do not recognize. We wanted a place to translate the contemporary peer-reviewed evidence, surface lived experience, and answer the recurring criticisms calmly and on the record.

What this site is

• A research translation hub — plain-language summaries of peer-reviewed work, with citations intact (see the Research Database).
• A directory of methods, taught by the organizations that actually teach them (see Methods).
• A library of first-person writing, documentaries, and primary sources (see Library).
• A set of careful responses to the recurring criticisms (see Responses).
• An ongoing collection of testimonials from families, typers, spellers, and practitioners (see Testimonials).

What this site is not

• It is not a training program. People seeking instruction should go directly to the method organizations listed under Methods.
• It is not a clinical service. Nothing here substitutes for individualized assessment by a qualified practitioner.
• It is not a single-method site. We treat FC, S2C, RPM, the Spellers Method, and supported typing as related but distinct, with their own histories, training models, and terminology.
• It is not anti-AAC. Spelling and typing approaches sit alongside other AAC, not in opposition to it.

How we work

Editorial decisions are made by the site's contributors in consultation with practitioners and nonspeaking communicators. We update pages when better evidence becomes available, when language used by the community changes, and when readers point out errors. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

A note on the name

The domain — facilitatedcommunication.com — is the phrase people search when they want to know whether a nonspeaking family member could communicate. We use it because that is what brings people here. Throughout the site we work to distinguish historical FC from the broader umbrella of Assisted Communication and the contemporary methods practiced today.