RETRACTED: The Role of Communication in Thought

Keywords facilitated communication, literacy, Pinker, Piaget Abstract If people believe that people who do not talk do not think, they will believe that they have nothing to contribute. People look at facilitated communication users and think that they learned to think only after getting the means to communicate. They are working under the assumption that the only way to learn language is through interaction. I use ideas from Harvard neurologist Steven Pinker, studies of gifted children, and other evidence to demonstrate that people likely use language from the earliest moments of infancy, even before they can talk.