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PRACTICAL PROJECT FOR REFORM-MINDED BCBAs WHO WORK WITH AUTISTIC PEOPLE [THREAD]
#BehaviorAnalyst #BCBA #ABA
#BehaviorAnalyst #BCBA #ABA
I'm a member of the #BanABA movement. We believe that Applied Behaviour Analysis should not be the basis of any nonconsensual therapy for autistic people. We want this type of therapy to be declared unlawful.
Some of us who are part of the #BanABA movement do also talk to ABA professionals who are interested in reforming ABA (even though we believe that ABA-based approaches like EIBI are fundamentally flawed, rather than just broken).
IF YOU ARE NOT AUTISTIC please do me ONE FAVOR today: learn what ABA is in the context of autistic people.
Learn that it’s covered by insurance in all 50 states and sometimes legally mandated.
LEARN THAT IT IS CONVERSION THERAPY.
And that it’s coming for everyone who is weird.
Learn that it’s covered by insurance in all 50 states and sometimes legally mandated.
LEARN THAT IT IS CONVERSION THERAPY.
And that it’s coming for everyone who is weird.
Today could be the day you add a new piece of information to your toolkit for dealing with the world.
This stuff seems fringe but it’s a multi-billion dollar growth industry based on inducing trauma through operant conditioning.
And they’re expanding.
This stuff seems fringe but it’s a multi-billion dollar growth industry based on inducing trauma through operant conditioning.
And they’re expanding.
Please don’t scroll past. Take five minutes and just learn about this, so you understand how bad it is and how bad it is going to get.
Autistics are just the canary in the coal mine here. Please listen to us.
Autistics are just the canary in the coal mine here. Please listen to us.
As abuse survivors, other autistic supporters, parents of ABA/PBS survivors and ex-ABA professionals in the UK, US and other countries, we've worked for several years with BCBAs and other ABA professionals who had begun to feel that they needed to do better for their clients. 🧵
Conversations on Twitter during the past two days have revealed how many ABA professionals remain blissfully unaware of the extent of the corruption in their own industry, and the abuse pipelines which many are inadvertently serving.
This thread will be built over time to provide information for professionals who have caught a glimpse of the extent of the abuse, and who are evaluating their own professional position in the light of these revelations.
Hey new journalist followers, do you know about the ABA “debate” regarding Autistic kids?
Do you want to blow the lid off a story of deception, manipulation, exploitation and the $4B driving it?
Because I have a story for you that will make you famous and make you enemies.
Do you want to blow the lid off a story of deception, manipulation, exploitation and the $4B driving it?
Because I have a story for you that will make you famous and make you enemies.
The short version is, there is a four billion dollar growth industry called Applied Behavioral Analysis.
This practice was based on work by Ivar Lovaas, who also invented gay conversion therapy.
The premise is that you can make an autistic child seem more normal through abuse.
This practice was based on work by Ivar Lovaas, who also invented gay conversion therapy.
The premise is that you can make an autistic child seem more normal through abuse.
I wish I was kidding.
This is the ONLY therapy covered by insurance in America for autistic people.
When I was diagnosed as an adult I asked my insurance company for help and they sent me a list of ABA providers.
This is the ONLY therapy covered by insurance in America for autistic people.
When I was diagnosed as an adult I asked my insurance company for help and they sent me a list of ABA providers.
One of the responses to the misinformation in @theBarrister @BarristerMagaz1 by ABAer Team Dillenburger/Keenan.
#AutismAwareness #ABAharms @NeuroClastic @AIMautistic @AustisticUK #bcba @ChrisGPackham #BetterWaysthanABA #Autism
#AutismAwareness #ABAharms @NeuroClastic @AIMautistic @AustisticUK #bcba @ChrisGPackham #BetterWaysthanABA #Autism
Did you know ABA has no minimum requirements in the UK
The BCBA can be 4 removed from the person off the street with no experience psychologically manipulating kids as young as 1 for up to 40 hrs. And no one is required to have any autism understanding
The BCBA can be 4 removed from the person off the street with no experience psychologically manipulating kids as young as 1 for up to 40 hrs. And no one is required to have any autism understanding
Thread proves BCBAs do not need to study #autism or child dev at all
The ABA field in 5 decades have never cared to look into how ABA can harm #autistics
To platform #ABA is irresponsible.
@theBarrister @BarristerMagaz1 @barstandards @prof_standards
The ABA field in 5 decades have never cared to look into how ABA can harm #autistics
To platform #ABA is irresponsible.
@theBarrister @BarristerMagaz1 @barstandards @prof_standards
More in the comments, but ABA cowboys just don’t stop
There is harmful misinfo about #coronavirus in this@ABALearningLab blog & ABA busine$$ continue$, despite close contacts for transmi$$ion, visiting between homes, clinics, towns
This blog also breaches #BCBA Code of Ethics
There is harmful misinfo about #coronavirus in this@ABALearningLab blog & ABA busine$$ continue$, despite close contacts for transmi$$ion, visiting between homes, clinics, towns
This blog also breaches #BCBA Code of Ethics
False statements that ‘ABAers are better trained than most and that they are healthcare specialists so know about evidence based practice to deal with #coronavirus’
Breach of @BACB_Inc #BCBA ethics code.
#ABA #behavioranalysis #TodayInABA @AutismEye @Tizard_ABAPBS @ABAIEvents
Breach of @BACB_Inc #BCBA ethics code.
#ABA #behavioranalysis #TodayInABA @AutismEye @Tizard_ABAPBS @ABAIEvents
Harmful misstatements:
“What we’ve learned so far is that the virus.... seems to have a preference for older individuals and those with compromised immune systems.”
“To date, children are far less likely to be infected.”
@BACB_Inc @BACB_Worldwide @Tizard_ABAPBS @ABAIEvents
“What we’ve learned so far is that the virus.... seems to have a preference for older individuals and those with compromised immune systems.”
“To date, children are far less likely to be infected.”
@BACB_Inc @BACB_Worldwide @Tizard_ABAPBS @ABAIEvents
