Home›Open Questions›Why did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?Open QuestionsWhy did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextPsychology Atlas. "Why did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/facilitated-communication-persistence.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextPsychology Atlas. (n.d.). Why did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/facilitated-communication-persistenceCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{psychologyatlas-why-did-facilitated-communication-persis, author = {Psychology Atlas}, title = {Why did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/facilitated-communication-persistence}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionDespite more than fifty controlled studies by 2005 showing facilitators, not the person being facilitated, controlled the typed messages, and the American Psychological Association stating in 1994 there was no scientifically demonstrated support for the technique, some practitioners and family members continued to use and defend it for years afterward. The sources consulted here do not settle how much of that persistence reflects genuine belief formed from specific favorable cases versus institutional and emotional investment that made abandoning the technique difficult.What would resolve this A study of practitioner and family decision-making that traces why individual cases and institutions continued after the aggregate controlled evidence became clear, rather than only re-testing whether the technique itself produces authentic communication.OpenHistory and sociology of science, clinical psychologyWikipedia: Facilitated CommunicationCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnFacilitated Communication Studies, Studies and Experiments Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Facilitated Communicationtier 2SourcesWikipedia: Facilitated Communicationtier 2Wikimedia FoundationView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year