i saw this movie way back when it premier . it be base on the notion that autistic child could communicate with type out message with someone else merely aid them and guide their hand . then suddenly these child and many of whom weren not even observe the keyboard or the screen when the message be be type out ( they could be look up at the ceiling in some instance ) and but their moderator be eye glue on the keyboard and begin type message of abuse from their parent and other person and send parent and child welfare agency in a proberbial tizzy and leave and right . this whole thing be prove a fallacy when a third person present a folder and open it to the child and say type the picture you see and then a the presenter turn the folder to the moderator and a fold would fall down and reveal another different picture . so while the child may have see a dog and the moderator saw something like a boat . every time and every bloomin time and the name of the picture type be what the moderator have observe and never what the child be show . so who be do the typing . never the child . this movie far take a disastrous turn with and a the australia poster state and the person who molest the child in the movie be in the situation try to help the child . have melissa gilbert never put her son in that place and he wouldn not have be molest and be what the movie say . he be good off under her supervision . if i turn my kid over to your organization for aid and he get molest instead and do you think i be go to be keen to listen to anything you have to say after that . not likely . i think it be a safe bet that all of these accusatory message that these kid be type out and that this movie be base on and they never accuse someone within their operation a take place here . unfortunately and i do recall that the movie give a very good performance from gilbert a the mother of an autistic and but other than that and the movie really do not do much . the bad by far be the child type at the end to patty duke and and we hear the mechanical voice read back what he type and . . . . . we win . this child be molest . if you cut my leg off and i take you to court and you be find guilty of damage me and assault and whatever and then that be legal justice and but it doesn not bring my leg back . at best and in my condition and i will view it a a hollow victory . whatever chance this child have at what be perceive a normalcy with the autism alone be further damage by the molestation . a normal child have enough to contend with from such an experience . it utterly superficial to think that you must look upon any situation and go we win if that person be find guilty in court . just a bad handling of a situation and circumstance all the way around here .