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Severe Communication Impairment
AAC -
Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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Facilitated Communication Training


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Only a few centres around the world believe that people without speech are capable of great things -- what Doug Biklen of Syracuse calls the presumption of competence. 

American Centres

Syracuse Facilitated Communication Institute
Doug Biklen's marvellous mob
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/

FC Project (Phoenix, Arizona)
The Facilitated Communication (FC) Project operates in the greater Phoenix area to offer a variety of training and consultation services to persons involved with facilitated communication, including parents, professionals, and individuals with motoric and communication differences.
http://aztec.asu.edu/fcproj/

West Georgia Facilitated Communication Regional Resource Center
Within the The University of West Georgia Teaching College Teaching Materials Center (TMC)  curriculum laboratory.
http://tmc.ed.westga.edu/tour_WGFC.htm

Facilitated Communication Coalition of Indiana
Through the provision of guidelines, resources, advocacy, training and technical assistance, the Facilitated Communication Coalition of Indiana supports the technique of facilitated communication, the people who use FC, and the people who directly and/or indirectly support facilitated communication.
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~fcindy/

FC in Washington (State)
Now known as The FCWashington Work Group -- an evolving program designed to meet the needs of the Facilitated Communication community throughout the region.  Offers individualized services, including individualized communication supports and training, education, advocacy, documentation, planning, and community building:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/8925/home.html

Watch Our Words
An organisation for users of Facilitated Communication and their friends in Colorado
http://donna.jdowning.com/index.htm

Maine's Center for Community Inclusion

Vermont Facilitated Communication Network
http://www.uvm.edu/~uapvt/faccom.html

European Centres

FC 2000 DK (Denmark)

Candle (Communication and Learning Enterprises) (UK)
Learning and Communication Support for young people and adults experiencing barriers to inclusion.

Bolton Institute (UK)

RADAR (UK)

Zentrum für gestützte Kommunikation (Helvetica)
Sonnegstrasse 44
CH-8006 Zürich
Tel. +41 (0)1 253 14 25
fc-zentrum@gmx.ch

FC Netz Deutschland (Deutschland)



Position Statements

Autism National Committee Position on Facilitated Communication

TASH RESOLUTION ON FACILITATED COMMUNICATION
 
Center on Human Policy (Syracuse) Position Statement on the Facilitated Communication (FC) Controversy

Autism Society of Wisconsin Position Statement on Facilitated Communication


Personal Sites

Darlene Hanson
http://mysite.verizon.net/dghanson/id10.html

Jessica Vohs
http://www.jessicavohs.com/FCstatement.htm

Escaping The Glass Bubble Through Facilitated Communication
by Mary Lapos, M.S.
http://greg.quuxuum.org/journal/lapos.html

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THE FC NETWORK
An e-mail network where FCT users can exchange tips and news. Send a message to join!


538 Dandenong Road, Caulfield, Victoria 3162, AUSTRALIA
Ph. (61-3) 9509 632
 Fax. (61-3) 9386 0761
e-mail: dealcc@vicnet.net.au
DEAL has now seen over 2,000 clients with diagnoses that  include

 Autism/ASDCerebral PalsyDown Syndrome,  Intellectual Impairment,   Learning Disability,   Fragile X SyndromeRett SyndromeStroke/CVA, 
Persistent/Permanent Vegetative State,  Acquired Brain Damage,
Motor Neurone Disease/ALS, and Huntington's Disease.
              
DEAL has been able to help people with all of these diagnoses to communicate.