The article examines a disputed assisted spelling method for nonspeaking autistic people, contrasting families’ reports of transformative communication with researchers’ concerns about facilitator influence, false messages, and lack of rigorous evidence. It describes emerging blinded tests and eye‑tracking work probing whether users genuinely author the words attributed to them.
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The article examines a disputed assisted spelling method for nonspeaking autistic people, contrasting families’ reports of transformative communication with researchers’ concerns about facilitator influence, false messages, and lack of rigorous evidence. It describes emerging blinded tests and eye‑tracking work probing whether users genuinely author the words attributed to them.