The Troubled History of ABA Therapy: Talking With Author Anne Borden King
If you separate ABA therapy from reward and punishment and token economies, you don’t have any ABA left because the entire structure of ABA is based on that.
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When You Have No Choice But ABA Therapy
You may know that ABA is a questionable therapy for autistic kids, one many autism advocates think should be abandoned. But since not every parent can avoid ABA, what can those parents do to protect their kids?
How ProPublica Missed Crucial Points About ABA Therapy
Why it is so disappointing to see ProPublica’s recent feature promoting hefty insurance mandates for Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), given the opposition by autism and autistic-led organizations to the practice.
Can ABA Therapy Affirm Neurodiversity?
No, ABA therapy cannot affirm neurodiversity, not without becoming something that is not ABA therapy.
Book Review: The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn is an absolutely wonderful, important book for kids that don’t have a voice and may not be able to identify abuse or know how to talk about it. Fantastic for autistic and allistic readers alike.
Therapists: Stop Traumatizing Autistic Children With Speech Demands
Autistic children only get one childhood, and they deserve properly qualified and properly experienced professional teams. Teams that consider autistic ways of communication, ethics, human rights, and potential harms very carefully indeed.
Which Therapies Actually Help Autistic Children?
Why parents of autistic kids need to be cautious and thoughtful about the therapies they consider for their children.
Son-Rise, ABA, and The Problems of the Autism Therapy Industry
Even though the Son-Rise therapists take credit for Kyle’s successes, maybe he’s done well because of his family’s kindness…in spite of the therapy, not because of it.
Autism Checklist of DOOM
This checklist is for people who aren’t autistic (or whose autistic traits differ from those of their child/charge) to understand what may upset an autistic person, and cause them distress.
Field Notes From an Inbox: Four Years of Autistic-Led Advocacy in Canada
Autistics for Autistics has fought to get residential institutions in Canada shut down. We’ve fought to get sheltered workshops closed. We’ve battled for regulation of group homes, which are almost completely unregulated and often run on an abusive, prison-like ABA model.