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?
I was interviewed by Spectrum News about ABA. What I said in interviews is not the message I was hoping would be printed. Here’s what I actually said.
Dog trainer Carol Millman is back with another article looking at the archaic science of behaviorism and why it should have been retired long ago.
One BCBA can no longer be silent about what they see in their field. Jo Ram explores issues in the ABA profession that lend themselves to abuse– especially of autistic children.
The way society regards autistics is explored through a political analogy where accommodations for autistics are based on the conservative value of assimilation instead of the progressive value of a cultural mosaic.
B.F. Skinner stood against much of what constitutes modern ABA as it is used with autistic children. Find out why.
PBS (or PBIS in the US) is a Trojan horse to put ABA in schools. Dr. Dinah Murray on her reservations for the PBS model.
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