Autistic people are anthropologists by birth in a very literal sense. Trauma and autistic lived experience in Western industrialised societies are very hard to separate.
Knowing the Strategies of ABA helps to shed light on what the practice does to children in their most formative developmental years.
Cheyenne Thornton explores the common argument in behaviorism that ABA is appropriate for Black autistics because they need to be able to mask to avoid police violence.
Part One: We’re asking the wrong questions as parents of autistic children. Instead of asking if ABA works, we should be asking what are the consequences.
Lawmakers have continued to rule in favor of ABA because of a lack of awareness about the devastating consequences of conversion therapy… until now.
The New Zealand government is already committed to banning gay conversion therapy. The time for change is now. Register your support for banning all forms of “conversion therapy” in New Zealand.
Alex Sprague is an adult now being forced to recall painful memories of childhood behavior-based therapy that left them with trauma.
Sebastian Rubino explores the many problems with ABA therapy in this video.
ABA therapy is a religious cult with science as its god and the status quo as its benchmark. I was born a heathen, and being broken into compliance was for my own good.
Autism Speaks rebranded as “new,” and a part of their new campaign rollout is teaching parents to use ABA principles on their children. What could go wrong with programming an impressionable child to comply for candy?