# Prisoners of Silence

Facilitated communication (FC), a controversial, new technique which is profoundly altering the lives of people with autism and their families. Heralded by many as a breakthrough technique for communicating with nonverbal people with autism, it is being rejected by many scientists as simply not real. 1 videocassette (56 min.) : 1/2 in General public Produced jointly by KCTS Seattle, WNET New York, WPBT Miami, WTVS Detroit and WGBH Boston. Hosted by Judy Woodruff Originally broadcast as an episode of Frontline

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1992
- By: PBS Video.
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/PrisonersofSilence)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/PrisonersofSilence?play=1)