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Title: I Don't Want To Read These Books Anymore
Review: The introduction to this book extols the amazing breakthrough of facilitated communication, which has supposedly enabled Birger Sellin, a severely autistic and non-verbal young man, to communicate the genius trapped inside him in the ensuing poems.It omits to mention that every controlled study of facilitated communication has found that the messages almost invariably (more than 99% of the time) come from the hand of the facilitator, holding the autistic person's hand over a keyboard, in some cases forcibly, not from the person with autism.In passing, the introduction casually mentions that since facilitated communication was started with Birger Sellin, his screaming fits, tantrums, and other displays of extreme distress seem to be getting worse, especially when he is "typing". No one around him seems to have wondered why.
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