Why the predominant paradigm of personal achievement in the US (and the main approach to working with autistic children there) is immoral, unscientific and counterproductive.
(Long educational video. Spend this hour. It may be essential to do so.)
(Long educational video. Spend this hour. It may be essential to do so.)
The USA isn't the only culprit, but Alfie Kohn focuses on the US, because they have some uniquely extreme manifestations of the problem.
He even connects it to why anti-maskers are so common and so extreme in their selfish rebelliousness in the US compared to other countries.
He even connects it to why anti-maskers are so common and so extreme in their selfish rebelliousness in the US compared to other countries.
Thrrr is insufficient evidence to justify using ABA, the most-recommended (and government-mandated) therapy for autistic children in the US.
The same goes for PBS, the derivative popular in the UK.
Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support should not be legal.
The same goes for PBS, the derivative popular in the UK.
Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support should not be legal.
PECS (the method, not the pictures cards themselves) is ABA.
PECS is an immoral, counterproductive approach rooted in pseudoscience.
PECS is an immoral, counterproductive approach rooted in pseudoscience.
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