Arguments for Observer-Expectancy
I think that no matter how much everyone wants to believe in facilitated communication and no matter how great it would be if all autistic individuals could have the opportunity to communicate ... a lot more research must go into the idea because I think that facilitated communication is very much like the case of Clever Hans.
No matter how much families want to believe it, I seriously believe there is nothing to support the validity of facilitated communication. Unless the children can communicate under test conditions (facilitator with no idea what question is being asked), then I can't bring myself to believe it works. The mother Ö is really just hanging on to the hope that her son is expressing himself at a higher level than