Abstract
In this paper of the EBP Speaker's Corner, the former producer of the FRONTLINE report “Prisoners of Silence, “reacts to the perspectives paper by Janyce Boynton, entitled “Facilitated Communication – what harm it can do: Confessions of a former facilitator” (Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 6(1), 3–13).
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Jon Palfreman, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, is KEZI Distinguished Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the University of Oregon. A veteran of both UK and US television, he has made more than 40 BBC and PBS one-hour documentaries, including the Peabody Award-winning series The Machine That Changed the World, the Emmy Award-winning NOVA program Siamese Twins, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton winner Harvest of Fear. In 1993, he produced the FRONTLINE report Prisoners of Silence, which helped to expose Facilitated Communication.
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