“ABA itself is not abusive, it’s just how it’s used”.
#ABAharm comes from:
-lack of regulation and disinterest in understanding for who, when or how ABA harms.
- grandiose claims that ABAers have a clue about what is good or bad for autistic development and quality of life...
#ABAharm comes from:
-lack of regulation and disinterest in understanding for who, when or how ABA harms.
- grandiose claims that ABAers have a clue about what is good or bad for autistic development and quality of life...
...So social validity is a huge inherent problem of ABA across the field and also means most ABA does not meet its own definition of ABA.
Back to “ABA in itself is not abuse”. An example of a “hammer” is often given by BCBAs eg McEachin and Leaf & son...
Back to “ABA in itself is not abuse”. An example of a “hammer” is often given by BCBAs eg McEachin and Leaf & son...
...the trouble is ABA is like studying/supervision on what hammers are, what technical parts and different hammer types are called “hammer speak” and how to document the number of blows and extent to which an item has been pushed in from each blow (the data), but not....
...but not learning how different hammers weaken internal structures over time or can bend items, or the extent to which they are being used on ‘square pegs and round holes’.
The hammer analogy is good to explain #ABAharms #TodayInABA.
The hammer analogy is good to explain #ABAharms #TodayInABA.
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