{"id":21406,"date":"2015-03-18T03:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:35:56","slug":"comments-rpsd-issue-facilitated-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/comments-rpsd-issue-facilitated-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on RPSD Issue on Facilitated Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that there are questions in the community about TASH and its position on Facilitated Communication. The <a href=\"https:\/\/rps.sagepub.com\/content\/39\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest issue<\/a> (vol. 39, no. 3) of TASH\u2019s peer-reviewed journal, <em>Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities<\/em> (RPSD) was structured as an exchange on Facilitated Communication (FC). Publishing this issue of RPSD was a well-intentioned effort to re-open a dialogue, which was hoped to be useful and productive. There are a few things we\u2019d like to clarify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RPSD does not speak for the Board of TASH \u2013 it publishes the work of individual researchers<\/li>\n<li>The TASH board has not changed its position on FC; in fact, the board does not have a position specific to FC at this time, and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/tash.org\/about\/resolutions\/tash-resolution-right-communicate\/\">Resolution on the Right to Communicate<\/a>. The board is neutral on FC, since there are very different views held by board members. This variety of views is reflective of the TASH membership as a whole.<\/li>\n<li>The journal editor issued an open call for articles to the field of researchers and to TASH membership for this issue; the hope was to offer a balance of viewpoints on the issue. Although several individuals indicated an intent to send articles supporting FC, only one paper supportive of FC was submitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People who have read this issue of RPSD and would like to respond are invited to do so by following the <a href=\"https:\/\/tash.org\/publications\/research-practice-persons-severe-disabilities\/editorial-policy-author-guidelines\/\">editorial guidelines<\/a> at www.tashorgstg.wpengine.com.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nBarb Trader, Executive Director<br \/>\nRalph Edwards, TASH Board President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that there are questions in the community about TASH and its position on Facilitated Communication. The latest issue (vol. 39, no. 3) of TASH\u2019s peer-reviewed journal, Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD) was structured as an exchange on Facilitated Communication (FC). Publishing this issue of RPSD was a well-intentioned effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}