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KMID : 0894920120120020159
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2012 Volume.12 No. 2 p.159 ~ p.176
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Re-reading Debate over Facilitated Communication from a Postmodernist Perspective
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Um Su-Jung
Won Jong-Lye
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Abstract
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This study aims to re-read debate over facilitated communication (FC) from a postmodernist perspective informed by Foucault, Said, and Spivak. As most researchers have focused their attention on whether or not FC is a scientifically valid communication tool, they have not been able to acknowledge important issues that FC offers. In an analytic essay format, this study discusses the following issues: 1) normalcy as an ideological system, 2) relationship between power and knowledge, and 3) representation and ethics. By exploring several examples of people with autism who use FC, this study discusses if what we have believed in is true, why we have believed it is true, how it is associated with the concept of normalcy, and how the notion of representation explains the reproduction of ideology of normalcy in cultural practice.
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KEYWORD
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facilitated communication(FC), postmodernism, normalcy, power/knowledge relationship, representation
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