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In light of everything going on with #ColorTheSpectrum I would like to take a moment to talk about why #AdvancedBehaviorAnalysis is abuse.
When supporting the #AutisticCommunity this should be the second thing you check you aren’t funding. After just erasing us from existence.
When supporting the #AutisticCommunity this should be the second thing you check you aren’t funding. After just erasing us from existence.
I personally went through #ABA myself. So do not tell me I don’t understand. And No, it is not the “old” version. It was very recent and incredibly dehumanizing. I am #ActuallyAutistic and my experience is not the exception it is the common one.
#ABATherapy addresses what is considered “problematic” behavior. Now let’s focus on that wording. BEHAVIOR not cause of behavior, the behavior itself.
The way one behaves is communication. Taking that away is problematic. This should never be done. Instead you should ask WHY!!!
The way one behaves is communication. Taking that away is problematic. This should never be done. Instead you should ask WHY!!!
Feel free to add examples #TodayInABA of "quiet hands" and stopping of harmless stimming.
This latest research review is a start...
#NotMyABA #ABAresearch #ABAharms #ABAworks? #SEND
This latest research review is a start...
#NotMyABA #ABAresearch #ABAharms #ABAworks? #SEND
ABA supporters always say ABA is different nowadays and its not like the old bad Lovaas stuff.
So why is Lovaas ABA cited as part of the evidence base by almost every #ABAresearch paper and ABA orgs. Here's an example:
#ABAtherapy #Autism #ABAworks to do what?#AutismAwareness
So why is Lovaas ABA cited as part of the evidence base by almost every #ABAresearch paper and ABA orgs. Here's an example:
#ABAtherapy #Autism #ABAworks to do what?#AutismAwareness
So called ABA endorsements are often very flakey. Its part of the rhetoric
The 1987 Lovaas "indistinguishable to peers" study, as well as using aversives and being over 30 years old has been heavily criticised (including a control group with greater ID) and never replicated.
researchgate.net/publication/26…
researchgate.net/publication/26…
@Priyanka_Dayal What is confirmed here is that @UHC “put the bottom line above [Kate Weissman] as a patient.” @Priyanka_Dayal, you have helped place health payers on notice. Denials for proton therapy and violations of ERISA will not stand. The status quo is unsustainable and #change is coming.
@Priyanka_Dayal @UHC Most painful abt certain aspects of the piece is attempt to provide legitimacy to insurance practices that violate the law & deny millions of valid health claims. Lending credence to hackneyed industry arguments is, to quote a federal judge, “immoral and barbaric.” #protontherapy
Every person exhibits behavior. Everything we do is behavior. Everything we don’t do is behavior. Behavior is a form of communication. For nonverbal individuals diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum, behavior may be their only form of communication.
I know this because I communicate with my six-year-old son based on his behavior, every day.
We take a clinical approach to his mental health all day, on a daily basis. We are constantly observing his behavior in hopes to figure out what he is trying to communicate to us.
We take a clinical approach to his mental health all day, on a daily basis. We are constantly observing his behavior in hopes to figure out what he is trying to communicate to us.
He attends Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for 2 to 3 hours a day, after his full day of school. There, he is learning to learn, learning to be motivated, learning to follow instruction, learning to toilet himself. This is a list of behaviors that are innate to most people.
