TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faure,Patrick
AU  -  Gepner,Bruno
TI  - Agency and facilitated communication: A videographic study of the congruences between the text produced by and behaviors observed in a deaf and autistic adolescent
PY  - 2024///.
							
N1  - 54
N2  - Facilitated communication (FC) is a communication method designed to help people with disabilities affecting verbal communication and expression to point to images/words/letters with the help of a communication partner, known as a “facilitator,” who supports the person’s hand or arm. The question of who is really communicating, the patient and/or the facilitator, is crucial to judging the validity of this controversial method. To answer this question, we filmed five FC sessions between a seventeen-year-old congenitally deaf and autistic adolescent (BL) and his facilitator over a five-month period, and extracted twelve representative sequences. A detailed analysis of these twelve sequences revealed numerous congruences between the content of the co-written texts, on the one hand, and the wide array of facial expressions/sounds/gestures/emotional and intentional behaviors observable in BL, on the other. These congruences between the text and the clinical observations seem to demonstrate the patient’s agency in the co-production of written messages
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-l-information-psychiatrique-2024-5-page-335?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -