Contact Katharine Beals at katharine [dot] p [dot] beals [at] gmail [dot] com

Books:

• Students with Autism: How to Improve Language, Literacy and Academic Success.
• Cutting-Edge Language and Literacy Tools for Students on the Autism Spectrum.
• Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School.
• Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders. With Deborah Dahl, Ruth Fink, and Marcia Linebarger.
• Writing exercises, with Catherine Johnson, in Edward Berenson's Europe in the Modern World. Oxford, 2016.

Education Articles:

• Should Schools Dedicate Time to Grit and Growth Mindset? Skeptical Inquirer, 48(4).
• La profesion docente en Estados Unidos: consideraciones sobre la carencia de un sistema educativo y sus efectos (Magali Sarfatti-Larson, co-author). In H. Monarca (Ed.), Profesionalizacion docente: Discursos, politicas y practices. Madrid: Dykinson.
• Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst. The Atlantic.com, With Barry Garelick, November 11, 2015. Reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016
• Math Difficulties: Knowing, Doing, and Explaining Your Answer. Education News, With Barry Garelick, May 12, 2015.
• The Common Core Is Tough on Kids With Special Needs. The Atlantic.com, February 21, 2014.
• Are Grading Trends Hurting Socially Awkward Kids? The Atlantic.com, March 6, 2013.
• Review of Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great America School System. Nonpartisan Education Reviews Vol.7, No.12011.
• Assessing K12 Assessments.Commentary, Education News. May 31, 2011.
• Rethinking Cooperative Groups. Encounter Magazine, Winter, 2010.
• The Reform Math Problem. Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed November 09, 2009.

Autism articles:

• Illusions of literacy in nonspeaking autistic people: a response to Jaswal, Lampi & Stockwell, 2024. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. August, 2024.
• Can Message-Passing Anecdotes Tell Us Anything About the Validity of RPM and S2C? Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. February, 2024.
• Sit Down, Shut Up: A popular treatment in many countries in the world threatens the communication rights of autistic non-speakers. Index On Censorship, Volume 52, Issue 2, July, 2023.
• Why We Should Not Presume Competence and Reframe Facilitated Communication: A critique of Heyworth, Chan and Lawson. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. July, 2022.
• A recent eye-tracking study fails to reveal agency in assisted autistic communication. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. May, 2021.
• Book Review: Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone. Research on Social Work Practice. March, 2021.
• Remediation and Assistive Technologies for Communication Deficits in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. In Y. Kats. Education and Technology Support of Children and Young Adults with ASD and Learning Disabilities.. IGI Global, 2020.
• Review of Communication Alternatives in Autism, Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. March, 2020.
• Remediation and Assistive Technologies for Communication Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Y. Kats, Supporting the Education of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. IGI Global, 2016.
• Why Common Core is All Wrong for High-Functioning Autistic Kids. Education News, October 2, 2014.
• Language Software For Teaching Semantics, Grammar, and Pragmatics to students with Autism. Felicia Hurewitz, co- author. In K. Boser, M. Goodwin, and S. Wayland, Technology Tools for Students with Autism: Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning, Brooks Publishers, 2013.
• Conventionalization in Indirect Speech Acts: Evidence from Autism. In E. Yuasa, T. Bagchi, and K. Beals, Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In Honor of Jerry Sadock, John Benjamins Publishers, 2011.
• Early Intervention in Deafness and Autism: One Family's Experiences, Reflections and Recommendations. Infants and Young Children, October 2004.
• Autism in Daily Life: Big Challenges and Small Miracles. Mothering Magazine.
• The Ethics of Autism: What's Wrong With the Dominant Paradigms and How to Fix Them. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 9.1, 2003.

Artificial intelligence and free speech:

• Twitter's Other Free Speech Problem. Persuasion. May 26, 2021.

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