“If my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would regain all the rest.” —Daniel Webster.

“'She’s never picked up a book… that I’m aware of,' her mother notes. “One of many red flags that raises serious qs abt actual literacy & language comprehension in FC/RPM/S2Ced ppl & that should’ve raised serious concerns with this article’s author, journalist Susan Glaser.”.

What do you want to know?.

RT @AltB56073878: @BarryGarelick @smarterparrot @RCsEvilTwin @ToddTruitt76508 @BrankinMomma13 @johnmighton The prob w/ computerized math pr….

“Proponents claim the sole reason FC got a bad name was bc of a handful of “poorly trained” facilitators who misused FC & brought false allegations… [But] Rosemary Crossley (the founder of FC) & 8 of her facilitators were among the 1st ever to bring false allegations of abuse”.

Why do the Common Core Standards, which people pretend aren’t operative any more but which continue to reduce k12 achievement across the country, have to be the one thing that both Democratic and Republican leaders agree on?.Great piece by @RichardPPhelps .

Random thought: to what extent are the age divisions we draw between phases of life, esp childhood vs adolescence vs adulthood, driven by the base 10 number system (i.e., how many fingers we have)?.

Headline dangler du jour

*divining.

This study, published in Scientific Reports, assumes that autistic masking exists, defines it in terms of a discrepancy btw formal measures (designed to be reliable) and teacher & parent ratings (much less unreliable), & doesn’t consider the possibility of over-dx of mild cases.

Up there w/ ad hominem attacks: impugning of motives. This means somehow diving the internal states of one’s adversaries, accusing them of cowardice or sinister motivations. Defenders of telepathy, fittingly, are especially prone to this presumptuous tactic.

Paranormalist’s syllogisms. The Defense Department uses psychics.Police departments use psychics.Therefore psychic phenomena are real.

RT @BarryGarelick: @savemathnow's Well-researched info on Jo Boaler's infamous "Railside Study", which although debunked and discredited, s….

Well there you have it.

Child abuse. "MAKE ME CARRY ON. HELP ME RESIST THE URGE TO STOP. I REALLY WANT TO HELP MAKE RESEARCH.".

Child abuse.

“If Dhanda is using his device independently, why does his father need to move to MIT also?”.….“Someone’s going to be getting a degree in math from MIT.”.

One journalist reports that a facilitated communication victim .“could apparently move backwards in time, and can also ‘condense’ time.”. Yet another meme that has capitalized on the apparent tabula rasa that is nonspeaking #autism.

Dept chair wants me to find updated books/articles for my High Functioning Autism class. But everyone is so afraid of publicly acknowledging that there are differences in cognitive & academic functioning level that few books/articles on this topic have appeared since 2015!.

Vocation nomenclature inflation: “scholar” for student; “colleague” for co-worker; .What else?.

RT @atbeyond: 3/3 On May 3, 1994 after testing my own son 22 year-old Ben, Howard Shane admitted in private meeting that his tests did not….