Facilitated communication (FC) is a method that purports to help people with speech or expressive problems to point to spell out words and sentences. The goal of the method is to enable the person to use an augmentative communication device independently. Usually, the facilitator holds the person's hand, wrist or arm in his hand, prompting the patient to pick out letters on a letterboard or keyboard. The facilitator prompts the client to point to letters and puts slight pressure back on the hand, wr ...

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facilitated communication (FC, Facilitated Communication therapy, facilitated communication training [FCT]): A means of helping persons with severe communication deficits (e.g., due to autism or cerebral palsy) to communicate. Rosemary Crossley, Ph.D. - the author of Facilitated Communication Training (Teachers College Press, 1994) and Speechless: Facilitating Communication for People Without Voices and the coauthor of Annie's Coming Out - originated FC in Australia in the 1970s.

The facilitated communication practitioner, called a facilitator, maintains physical (typically manual or digital) contact with a hand, wrist, arm, or shoulder of his or her disabled partner while the latter person's index finger is applied to a communication aid, such as the keyboard of a computer.

(See also: Facilitated communication, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

In India, the day begins with worship. People pray, bow and meditate. Members of the Jain community all over India bathe, put on new clothes and walk barefoot to their local temple. They embark on their daily pilgrimage with no possessions and with high aspirations. Some of them carry a cloth mask which they wear when inside the temple. From the moment they walk into the temple, all worldly concerns are set aside to facilitate meditation. Their focus is on the Tirthankaras , the teachers who conquered their own vices to teach the world about compassion and salvation through example. The recitation of the Namokar Mahamantra encourages them to salute the achievements of all divine souls who attained salvation.

(See also: Jainism Worship, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Interpreter can mean one of the following: Interpreter (communication), a person who facilitates dialogue between parties who use different languages. Interpreter (computing), a program designed to run other non-executable programs directly. Interpreter (history), a person who acts the role of a historical character in a living museum. The Interpreter, a 2005 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Other related archivesInterpreter (communica

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An art group refers to an association of artists who may work (or live) communally, for the purpose of facilitating the creation of art, either that belonging to the individual, or the collective. Art groups typically were formed by established artists, (Andy Warhol, etc), as hired assistants to the artist, operating collectively under the artist's "studio." More recently, art groups have been formed by unknown artists, pooling the ...

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Winter roads are temporary highways carved out of snow and ice. They facilitate transportation to and from communities without permanent roads, and are commonly seen in isolated regions in Canada's north. Winter roads have a crucial role in enabling goods to be brought into communities without permanent road access. In many of these communities, air transportation is used at other times of the year to bring in goods including food and supplies, but this can be prohibitively costly for bulky go ...

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The Association of African Universities was established in 1967 to facilitate co-operation between its members and with the international academic community. It is based in Accra, Ghana. In June 2005, it had 185 members from 44 African countries. However only 111 of those members were "in good standing" (subscription less than 3 years in arrears). See also. Universities in Africa Universities in Africa Association of African ...

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In military science, a battery is a group of artillery guns or rockets, so grouped in order to facilitate battlefield communication and the organization of barrages. In modern military organization, the military unit typically has 6 to 8 howitzers and 100 to 200 personnel. They are subdivided into: Field batteries, equipped with 105 mm calibre howitzers or equivalent; Medium batteries, equipped with 155 mm calibre howitzers or equivalent; Heavy batteries, which are equipped with guns of 203 mm or more ca ...

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A wiki (IPA: [ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey> (according to Ward Cunningham) is a type of website that allows users to add and edit content and is especially suited for constructive collaborative authoring. The term wiki also sometimes refers to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of ...

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• Wiki - Pages and editing
• Wiki - Linking and creating pages
• Wiki - Searching
• Wiki - Server-side versus client-side wiki
• Wiki - Controlling changes
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Amherst Regional Middle School, commonly abbreviated as ARMS, is the seventh- and eighth-grade school serving the Massachussetts communities of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett and Shutesbury. In January 2001, through the efforts of principal Mary Cavalier, the Center for Collaborative Education named ARMS the first demonstration school for their National Turning Points Center program. This facilitates an afterschool program called Savuka which allows students to stay after class and to participate in a number of teacher-led cl ...

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A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a set of characters (representations of graphemes or grapheme-like units, such as might appear in an alphabet or syllabary for the communication of a natural language) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. Common examples include Morse code, which encodes letters of the Latin alphabet as series of long and short depressions of a telegraph key; and ASCII, which encodes letters, numerals, and other symbols, both as ...

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Reiki is claimed by its adherents to be a technique for healing physical or mental disease. Reiki was formulated during the early 20th century by Mikao Usui (usui mikao 臼井甕男) in Japan. Practitioners use a technique similar to the laying on of hands in which they claim that they act as channels for Reiki energy — which they say flows through their palms to specific parts of the body in order to facilitate healing. Scientific studies have not confirmed the existence of this specific Reiki energy. Most of the e ...

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• Reiki - Internal controversies
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• Reiki - The Reiki Grandmaster
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Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more other people. Although the word collaboration is widely used in many varying contexts such as education, science, art and business, very little research has been carried out to determine the properties of this process. With the relatively recent advent of computer mediated communication (CMC), the nature of collaboration is coming under more intensive scrutiny. As software designers, facilitators and theorists from many diverse fields strive to creat ...

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• Collaboration - Purpose of using this approach
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• Collaboration - Optimal application
• Collaboration - Examples
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• Collaboration - Degree of interdependence in designing the effort's work-products
• Collaboration - Degree of individual latitude in carrying out the agreed-upon design
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Mediation consists of a process of alternative dispute resolution in which a (generally) neutral third party, the mediator, using proper techniques, assists two or more parties to help them negotiate an agreement, with concrete effects, on a matter of common interest. Generally speaking, the term "mediation" covers any activity in which an impartial third party (often a professional) facilitates an agreement on any matter in the common interest of the parties involved. Mediation applies to different fields, with some com ...

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• Mediation - Competence of the mediator
• Mediation - Mediation as a method of dispute resolution
• Mediation - Safety fairness closure
• Mediation - Process and role of the mediator in US practice
• Mediation - Mediation with arbitration
• Mediation - Mediator liability
• Mediation - Mediation in politics and in diplomacy
• Mediation - One of many non-violent methods of dispute resolution
• Mediation - Global relevance
• Mediation - Fairness
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Eye contact - Facilitating other non-verbal communication. A person's direction of gaze may indicate to others where his or her attention lies. Eye contact - Facilitating learning. Recent studies suggests that eye contact has a positive impact on the retention and recall of information and may promote more efficient learning [2][3][4].

Eye contact, Eye contact - The role of eye contact in facilitating the expression of emotions, Eye contact - Love and attraction, Eye contact - Fear and intimidation, Eye contact - Confidence and trust, Eye contact - Physiological responses, Eye contact - The other roles of eye contact, Eye contact - Facilitating other non-verbal communication, Eye contact - Facilitating learning, Eye contact - Mother/child bonding, Eye contact - Instinctive behavior, Eye contact - Cultural differences

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Eye contact and facial expressions provide key social and emotional information; we continually probe each other's eyes and faces for positive or negative mood signs. The eyes have often been described as the "windows of the soul", and in some contexts, gazing at another's eyes may arouse strong emotions. Eye contact - Love and attraction. Lovers often gaze into each other's eyes for extended periods of time to show and [nonverbal communication] exp ...

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As with primates, human beings show an extreme alertness to where others are looking. Although a person may consciously control where his or her own eyes hover and land, he or she may feel compelled to look at objects and body parts which he or she finds interesting (e.g., faces, breasts, hands, and trees) -- or to gaze away from what he or she finds distasteful. In response to feelings of shyness, submissiveness, and stranger anxiety, we subconsciously "watch where we look". In crowded elevators, people generally avoid allowing their eyes to roam freely across others' faces as they do w ...

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Groupware can be divided into three categories depending on the level of collaboration—communication tools, conferencing tools and collaborative management (Co-ordination) tools. Electronic communication tools send messages, files, data, or documents between people and hence facilitate the sharing of information. Examples include: e-mail faxing voice mail Web publishing Electronic conferencing tools also facilitate the sharing of information, but in a more ...

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Groupware can be divided into three categories depending on the level of collaboration—communication tools, conferencing tools and collaborative management (Co-ordination) tools. Electronic communication tools send messages, files, data, or documents between people and hence facilitate the sharing of information. Examples include: e-mail faxing voice mail Web publishing Electronic conferencing tools also facilitate the sharing of information, but in a more ...

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