Applied Behavioral Analysis - Autism Explained

Many of the traits you associate with autism, are actually caused by well meaning therapies, not autism itself. There's actual, studied, harm being done to the autistic despite good intentions. Let's discuss part of that.

📼 Autism Speaks' Electrifying Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcegduzhdE

📼 Shocking people with autism, behavioral disorders stirs controversy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5D2ZL0icM

📚 Why caregivers discontinue applied behavior analysis (ABA) and choose communication-based autism interventions
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AIA-02-2019-0004/full/html

📚 How much compliance is too much compliance: Is long-term ABA therapy abuse?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1641258

📚 Prompt Dependency Beyond Childhood: Adults With Asperger's Syndrome and Intimate Relationships
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-relationships-research/article/abs/prompt-dependency-beyond-childhood-adults-with-aspergers-syndrome-and-intimate-relationships/290525E933D3282C555016221BE0757C