People Who Use Facilitated Communication

This page has been for the most part superseded. For a very good list of autistic people who use FC and/or other forms of augmentative and alternative communication (aka AAC or Aug Comm), please see this link at the blog Ballastexistenz:

Autistic Aug Comm Users

On this page are mentioned a few more FC users who are not mentioned on the above page.

See also Articles by Facilitated Communication Users and the bookstore (.pdf file) of the Autism National Committee.

Alberto Frugone

Italy.
Author of chapter in Autism And The Myth Of The Person Alone (New York University Press, 2005), ed. Douglas Biklen.
Essay by Alberto on the subject of independence.

Lucy Harrison

USA.
Lucy is featured in the video documentary "Every Step Of The Way: Toward Facilitated Communication" (link on Facilitated Communication Institute's site.)
Lucy is quoted and some of her achievements are described in Douglas Biklen's essay "No Time For Silence".

See also Learning About Independent Typing From People Working To Achieve It.

Anne McDonald

Melbourne, Australia.
Coauthor with Rosemary Crossley of Annie's Coming Out (Penguin, 1980).
Anne McDonald's Institution Page
Assessing The Assessors: A Review of the Triple C Communication Assessment