…In hiring David Geier, the Trump administration has abandoned its responsibility to safeguard public health and promote science. This move towards conspiracy theories and junk science puts all our lives…
…“took a break” from protecting us. In the same way, marginalized communities would bear the brunt of a decision to abandon HHS’ responsibility to study infectious diseases. We are dismayed…
…analysis. Many plans cover both ABA and the Early Start Denver Model, which merges developmental and ABA components. Yet, as one example, the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Emotion Regulation (JASPER)…
…happening right now. Auteach has put out this guide to asking prominent organizations to condemn the electric shock torture used at the JRC. This includes groups like ABA International (ABAI),…
Hello all: As many of you may already be aware, the NYU Child Study Center has recently launched a new advertising campaign entitled, “Ransom Notes,” depicting the diagnoses of Asperger’s…
…problems at the heart of the most popular autism intervention, Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), as well as the lack of evidence to support ABA. And it examines how similar problems…
…intervention, combined with the deficit-focused descriptions of autistic living throughout this proposal, suggests priorities that may lead to a too-restrictive focus on ABA and similar behaviorist approaches to the exclusion…
…autistic kids. Too often, families are pushed towards ABA and other behaviorist approaches to early autism intervention, even though many autistics have found these approaches unhelpful and harmful. As early…
…explains the ethical problems at the heart of the most popular autism intervention, applied behavioral analysis (ABA), as well as the lack of evidence to support ABA. “For Whose Benefit?”…
…in the course of communication. On the other hand, the “best evidence” weighs heavily against so-called “verbal behavior” therapies, or other attempts to use Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to teach…
