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Next up in today's reading, a behaviourist team traps children in a room so they can't escape. No mention of sensory accommodations in room.
Enforce workload. If child fails to comply, turn your back on them and remove their stuff/
Enforce workload. If child fails to comply, turn your back on them and remove their stuff/
If the child sings or flaps to try to self-regulate and self-comfort, mark that down as a Problem Behaviour to be eliminated.
No ethics discussion whatsoever.
No interest in child, their wellbeing, interacting with them or otherwise. Just compliance schedule.
2020. New.
No ethics discussion whatsoever.
No interest in child, their wellbeing, interacting with them or otherwise. Just compliance schedule.
2020. New.
The "problem behaviour" identified for one child was avoiding clearing out a rubbish pile in the yard. They had to enforce compliance, y'see, because it was just escape so they didn't have to bother, according to the behaviourists.
Is it? Let's think:/
Is it? Let's think:/
Clearing rubbish in a yard:
The stench.
The deafening sound.
The roughness of wearing protective gloves.
The blinding light outside.
Trying to copy with the heat or cold out there.
Seeing adequately.
Movement and co-ordination difficulties.
Potential hypermobility pain (common)/
The stench.
The deafening sound.
The roughness of wearing protective gloves.
The blinding light outside.
Trying to copy with the heat or cold out there.
Seeing adequately.
Movement and co-ordination difficulties.
Potential hypermobility pain (common)/
Are any of these considered? Not even one of them.
OK, next child has to be forced to stack cups.
Er, nope, I've got nothing for this one, because for the life of me I cannot imagine why you would trap a child in a room for hour after hour and Force Them To Stack Cups/
OK, next child has to be forced to stack cups.
Er, nope, I've got nothing for this one, because for the life of me I cannot imagine why you would trap a child in a room for hour after hour and Force Them To Stack Cups/
I mean, is this a required thing?
I've never needed to stack a cup in my entire life.
Does the child have co-ordination difficulties?
Do the cups clash and clink together in a way that causes intense pain?
Are they terrified of the cups falling and them getting into trouble?/
I've never needed to stack a cup in my entire life.
Does the child have co-ordination difficulties?
Do the cups clash and clink together in a way that causes intense pain?
Are they terrified of the cups falling and them getting into trouble?/
Child 3 has difficulties brushing their hair.
So we trap them in a room and make them do this thing over and over and over and over, and if they don't, they get ignored and their stuff taken away.
Because they're Just Being Lazy, see?
Or, are they?/
So we trap them in a room and make them do this thing over and over and over and over, and if they don't, they get ignored and their stuff taken away.
Because they're Just Being Lazy, see?
Or, are they?/
Could they have the same intense pain response from hair brushing that many of us have, as autistic people?
Could they have difficulties controlling hand and wrist movements, or are they in pain from undiagnosed hypermobility?
Has anyone offered an easy grip soft brush?/
Could they have difficulties controlling hand and wrist movements, or are they in pain from undiagnosed hypermobility?
Has anyone offered an easy grip soft brush?/
Has anyone helped them with a social story to show them what we're doing and why?
Has anyone used a good 2-in-1 hair shampoo/conditioner so that hair doesn't get so tangled?
Has anyone communicated with them to find out what's anxiety-making about it?/
Has anyone used a good 2-in-1 hair shampoo/conditioner so that hair doesn't get so tangled?
Has anyone communicated with them to find out what's anxiety-making about it?/
I look through the filing cabinets filled with these modern papers, and it doesn't seem to matter which ones I pull, out, the ABA crews are doing this stuff.
Has no-one ever read these, before commissioning services? Really serious question.
Has no-one ever read these, before commissioning services? Really serious question.
