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Repeating again, there is no external evidence that Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) actually works.
Still seeing lots of posturing from certain ABA fans that those naughty autistic people are saying they don't like it and making up stories about it.
If only that was true, eh/
Still seeing lots of posturing from certain ABA fans that those naughty autistic people are saying they don't like it and making up stories about it.
If only that was true, eh/
https://therapistndc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Annual-Report-on-Autism-Care-Demonstration-Program-for-FY-2020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2VRj3ygZ4nfVsgMY4UNFXn6hxB9kuEGxSlWfx9uwaItEhfsz_NmquhtFo US Military report 2020. Hardly an old document, is it. Nor one by a group of 'silly autistic people'. No evidence of ABA doing anything. Moving on/
Most high-powered research - the Cochrane Reviews. International audits. No evidence of effect on challenging behaviour from such early intervention therapies.
https://www.cochrane.org/CD009260/BEHAV_early-intensive-behavioral-intervention-eibi-increasing-functional-behaviors-and-skills-young
Again, not a bunch of silly autistic people who don't know fact from fiction, eh/
https://www.cochrane.org/CD009260/BEHAV_early-intensive-behavioral-intervention-eibi-increasing-functional-behaviors-and-skills-young
Again, not a bunch of silly autistic people who don't know fact from fiction, eh/
Nor is research into possible harms from ABA someone just doing a bit of informal nonsense.
The reality is that studies like https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0226-4 are done by top teams and show clearly the concerns about the links to suicide from camouflage/masking/
The reality is that studies like https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0226-4 are done by top teams and show clearly the concerns about the links to suicide from camouflage/masking/
Is bad practice in the past? I wish it was. I would refer us to the recent threads I've done on the Brand New ABA 'Bible'
Here https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1326077276199530497 and here https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1326771435981955078
So, the 'all in the past' stuff isn't true, is it/
Here https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1326077276199530497 and here https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1326771435981955078
So, the 'all in the past' stuff isn't true, is it/
As for the tired old stuff about 'none of the ones on social media know ANYTHING about people with high support needs - they think it's just a difference, ha ha ha'.
Plenty of us are parents to autistic young people with high support needs/
Plenty of us are parents to autistic young people with high support needs/
Plenty of us work with autistic young people with such high support needs.
Plenty of those with high support needs actually started and work within the equalities movements. Because equality is what we're actually asking for.
It's really not hard to understand/
Plenty of those with high support needs actually started and work within the equalities movements. Because equality is what we're actually asking for.
It's really not hard to understand/
I put it to the small groups of people who turn out these same old myths every single week that they would do a lot better to start listening. To start looking at their own behaviour.
To start realising how big the opposition is, and why/
To start realising how big the opposition is, and why/
https://twitter.com/NeuroRebel/status/1323274390444728320 Look at this. Just look at it.
In what other alleged 'therapy' in the world would the user base answer in this way, and still be told they're just too ignorant to know what they need?/
In what other alleged 'therapy' in the world would the user base answer in this way, and still be told they're just too ignorant to know what they need?/
In what other alleged 'therapy' would a central principle (find out what they like, take it away from them to make them 'behave better' in order to earn it back) have a poll result like this one?
Trauma. Look at the word. Imagine how bad this is for people to answer thus./
Trauma. Look at the word. Imagine how bad this is for people to answer thus./
I am absolutely fed up with having autistic people's voices ignored.
You should be absolutely fed up with it too.
Thank you for reading.
You should be absolutely fed up with it too.
Thank you for reading.
PS:
It's not a science.
This is a reality of what parents get, from an actual ABA charity provider:
Yes, that's right. Look for an unsuspecting family, and even with no experience of ABA, autism or even children, you can earn money Doing ABA to a child. For money.
It's not a science.
This is a reality of what parents get, from an actual ABA charity provider:
Yes, that's right. Look for an unsuspecting family, and even with no experience of ABA, autism or even children, you can earn money Doing ABA to a child. For money.
https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1312811558158962691 was another recent thread I did on this. It has more detail on the findings by the US Military, re ABA, amongst other stuff.
