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Oct 2, 2020, 6 tweets

@samurai_snake @lnc0 There is no ABA literature on how ABA harms. You can harm in other ways:
neuroclastic.com/2019/03/28/inv…

And the Ethics Code and BCBA task list allows for punishments and aversives. Examples #TodayInABA to follow....1

#ABAharms

@samurai_snake @lnc0 🧐

Electric shocks still happening (JRC argue not to stop, despite FDA saying need to stop by end Sept 20)

Using hunger and food to coerce: ABA research 2020

Slapping kids to stop them moving (Dec 18)...2

@samurai_snake @lnc0 🥸

Forcefeeding in ABA May 19

2018 research deliberately exposing kids to painful noises pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29876921/

Blocking 5 yr old's ear covering, hand/arm flapping and hand/finger posturing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ja…

@samurai_snake @lnc0 Examples #TodayInABA of enforcing "quiet hands":

Sept 2020 ABA systematic review to stop stimming, including aversives:

Link between ABA literature and violence: repository.cityu.edu/bitstream/hand…

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