Standards of Proof

@article{Singer2014StandardsOP,
  title={Standards of Proof},
  author={George HS Singer and Robert H Horner and Glen Dunlap and Mian Wang},
  journal={Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities},
  year={2014},
  volume={39},
  pages={178 - 188},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145757011}
}
TASH’s historic commitment to advocacy and science has enabled it to be a trusted voice for people with severe disabilities and their families. We review recent developments in the controversy over facilitated communication (FC) in light of major contextual continuities and changes in the past two decades. A series of scholarly reviews of the literature on controlled experiments have established a preponderance of evidence that FC is not reliably an expression from the individual who receives… 
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