Q&A: A look at nonverbal autism, facilitated communication
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Q&A: A look at nonverbal autism, facilitated communication

Associated Press  

Benjamin Alexander, the first student with nonverbal autism to attend Tulane University in New Orleans, is an English major and a writer who’s had essays published locally. Here are some questions and answers about nonverbal autism and facilitated communication. Dr. Paul Lipkin, an autism researcher in Baltimore, says a majority of people who are autistic and nonverbal generally don’t speak because of lower intellectual ability. Dr. Paul Wang, vice president of medical research for the organization Autism Speaks, points to Naoki Higashida, a young man in Japan who has written a book about his nonverbal autism, “The Reason I Jump,” and Carly Fleischmann, a Canadian woman who is on the autism spectrum and has written a book with her father.

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