blog of Brian Hughes of January 5, 2016

http://thesciencebit.net/2016/01/05/who-let-the-dogmas-out/

my comment:

ARTHUR GOLDEN (@atbeyond)

January 6, 2016 • 6:14 pm

Brian – as the current President of the international Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), I presume that you are well aware that persons with nonverbal autism are often subject to extreme anxiety. While a blog comment is not the appropriate place for a scholarly discussion of these matters, let me simply state that clever autism experts, such as Dr. Howard Shane, were able to design “tests” in the early 1990’s that no one with nonverbal autism could pass, including my own then 22 year-old son Ben on May 3, 1994, not because they could not communicate but due to their autism. Others who were not so clever, such as Dr. Peter Eisen in 1979 in Melbourne, Australia, conveniently misplaced any data that validated the Facilitated Communication (references available on request). I understand Professor of Special Education Mark Mostert is insistent that special education practice must be based on experimental research, but what if there is research fraud?