Louis Stay wanted help autistic children when he took a job as an RBT. The clinic was advertised as the modern “good ABA” that avoided the harmful practices associated with ABA’s history.
Many autistic children who receive ABA therapy are nonspeakers. As these children age, they gain access to better communication tools. And when they do, these autistics often report horror stories from ABA therapy.
When her son was diagnosed with autism, this mother was pressed to put him in ABA therapy. She wanted to defer to the experts, but things weren’t adding up…
One mother’s heartbreaking account of surviving domestic violence and sexual assault, custody battles with the perpetrator, court-ordered ABA therapy, and finding the spirit to keep fighting.
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