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Facilitated Communication Ethics

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I don’t think they acted in an ethical manner. They were communicating for the disabled children and making crazy allegations on their behalf. It was mentioned that they didn’t realize they were influencing the disabled person so much, but they had to have some knowledge of what they were doing. Everyone who was involved with Facilitated communication loved it and thought it was a great program so they didn’t question it at all. That’s very unethical because they were looking past all of the signs of error. Usually the disabled person was not looking at the keyboard at all, while the facilitator was staring directly at it. This should have thrown up red flags because it’s nearly impossible to type with one finger without looking. Since the

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