Louis Stay wanted help autistic children when he took a job as an RBT. The clinic was advertised as the modern “good ABA” that avoided the harmful practices associated with ABA’s history.
NeuroClastic surveyed 900 professionals from the field of applied behavior analysis to measure attitudes about the use of electroshock punishment at the Judge Rotenberg Center.
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.
An autistic teenager is forced into court-ordered ABA. Each week, his anxiety builds until he elopes from the scene and runs into traffic to escape his therapists.
An Open Letter to the NYT: Acknowledge the Controversy Surrounding ABA with an in-depth exploration of the murky ethical issues that surround Applied Behavior Analysis.
Whenever I had doubts, I was always immediately reassured that [insert uncomfortable situation I was in] was helping the autistic child overall.
When her son was diagnosed with autism, this mother was pressed to put him in ABA therapy. She wanted to defer to the experts, but things weren’t adding up…
One mother’s heartbreaking account of surviving domestic violence and sexual assault, custody battles with the perpetrator, court-ordered ABA therapy, and finding the spirit to keep fighting.
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