Facilitated Communication Under New Scrutiny
Typing while an aide supported her hand, Mark Storch's autistic teenage daughter two years ago spelled out horrendous accusations against her father. In graphic language, she accused him of committing more than 200 vaginal and anal rapes upon her.
The case landed in a New York State family court, where the charges against Mr. Storch, a teacher from Shokan, N.Y., were eventually dismissed.
The controversy, however, has not ended. Now Mr. Storch is planning to bring suit against the Ulster County social-services agency and the facilitator who supported the...
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