CW: ableism, suicide ABA with autistic children was literally created with the goal of making them “indistinguishable from their typically developing peers.” With the focus being only on observable and measurable behaviors to outsiders, the radical behaviorist roots of ABA as a therapy for autism becomes questionable at best. In…
Month: October 2021
This is a change of pace. Typically, this blog is aimed at practitioners, with harsh truths and demands to do better. This time though, I want to talk to the caregivers: The parents, the grandparents, the foster families, the relatives of children who have just been discovered to be autistic.…