Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
When Janyce Boynton participated in reliably controlled authorship testing for facilitated communication (FC) in 1993, little did she know that she’d still be talking about her experiences in 2026. After the testing, proponents of the technique said she was a “bad” facilitator, poorly trained. Now, they’re saying her student was telepathic.
They were not. Janyce was there. So what really happened?
Join us on Thursday, August 27, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Janyce Boynton. To date, she is one of the few facilitators anywhere in the world to publicly acknowledge her role in producing facilitated communication messages or to speak out against FC’s use. Boynton joins host Leighann Lord to talk about FC, authorship testing, and The Telepathy Tapes.
Janyce Boynton is an artist, educator, and advocate for evidence-based practices in the field of communication sciences and disorders. She is cofounder of facilitatedcommunication.org, a website dedicated to educating people about the dangers of FC and its variants (such as spelling to communicate and the rapid prompting method). Her story as a (former) facilitator was featured on Frontline's “Prisoners of Silence” and she received the James Randi Education Foundation (JREF) award for her work in the field of skepticism in 2023.
When Janyce Boynton participated in reliably controlled authorship testing for facilitated communication (FC) in 1993, little did she know that she’d still be talking about her experiences in 2026. After the testing, proponents of the technique said she was a “bad” facilitator, poorly trained. Now, they’re saying her student was telepathic.
They were not. Janyce was there. So what really happened?
Join us on Thursday, August 27, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Janyce Boynton. To date, she is one of the few facilitators anywhere in the world to publicly acknowledge her role in producing facilitated communication messages or to speak out against FC’s use. Boynton joins host Leighann Lord to talk about FC, authorship testing, and The Telepathy Tapes.
Janyce Boynton is an artist, educator, and advocate for evidence-based practices in the field of communication sciences and disorders. She is cofounder of facilitatedcommunication.org, a website dedicated to educating people about the dangers of FC and its variants (such as spelling to communicate and the rapid prompting method). Her story as a (former) facilitator was featured on Frontline's “Prisoners of Silence” and she received the James Randi Education Foundation (JREF) award for her work in the field of skepticism in 2023.
