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A Slice of My Life: Facilitated Communication Training
Jane Remington-Gurney (2009)

This book brings together a history of Facilitated Communication, stories from some users of Facilitation, recording measures and photographs illustrating some of the key aspects of this augmentative and alternative communication strategy.

Seeing all Kids as Readers: A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
Christopher Kliewer (2008)
  This book examines literacy development and inclusion in the classroom community for young children with significant disabilities.

 

Reasonable People
Ralph Savarese (2007)

The story of a Grinnell College professor, Savarese, and his adopted son DJ. Savarese describes DJ’s communication development and larger disability rights issues. DJ utilizes facilitated communication to express his thoughts and feelings. This is also a story of inclusion and the families fight to include DJ in general education classrooms.

 

"A Land We Can Share": Teaching Literacy to Students with Autism
Paula Kluth and Kelly Chandler-Olcott (2007)

“This guidebook brings cutting-edge literacy concepts to special educators who are already familiar with autism but may not have specific training in teaching reading skills and is an essential "literacy meets autism" primer for general educators and reading specialists." www.paulakluth.com

 

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone
Douglas Biklen, Editor (2005)

“A basic premise of the book is that people classified as autistic, even those who cannot speak, are thinking people with ideas about their lives and their relationship to the world. I call this orientation the presumption of competence” (p. 1).

                                  

Beyond the Silence: My Life, the World and Autism

Tito Mukhopadhyay (2000)

An autobiographical account by a young man with autism who learned to communicate with physical support and who now types independently and can speak. 

 

"I Had No Means to Shout!"
Mary Jane Gray Hale and Charles Martel Hale, Jr. (1999)

Charles Hale, a man with autism, discovered facilitated communication (FC) when he was 36 years old, and this book chronicles his life before and after he began to use FC through both Charles’ and his mother’s narratives. 


 

Contested Words, Contested Science: Unraveling the Facilitated Communication Controvesy
Douglas Biklen and Donald Cardinal, Editors (1997)

A collection of studies (controlled, quantitative ones as well as qualitative investigations) of facilitation, focusing mainly on the authorship question: Who is doing the typing--the facilitator or the person with the communication impairment? 
 
 

Speechless: Facilitating Communication for People without Voices
Rosemary Crossley (1997)

This book, written by the Australian educator widely recognized as one of the first to use facilitated communication, and certainly the first to prove the method’s effectiveness through validation tests, includes a series of case studies, told autobiographically.


 

I don't want to be inside me anymore
Birger Sellin (1995)

An autobiographical account of one person’s learning to communicate via facilitation. This book provides exceptionally rich material on how Sellin experiences autism.