You can be a reform-minded ABA therapist; it makes no difference. You can't reform abuse. Protest at the symposium. Protest online and in person. Have placards. Write to legislators. See if you get to keep your job. The compliance industry doesn't take kindly to noncompliance.
https://twitter.com/RyanHendry94/status/1373029099854254085
If you're a BCBA or RBT and you treat children in ways that nonspeaking autistic people say works well for them, giving respect, you won't be filling in your worksheets anymore. And your job is all about those scores and stats. You stop that, they fire you. So you comply.
How do you reform the industry from the inside if doing the right thing must always secret and unnoticed?
They won't fire you for torturing children with electricity, but you can lose your licence if you call the organisation out too loudly for promoting torture.
They won't fire you for torturing children with electricity, but you can lose your licence if you call the organisation out too loudly for promoting torture.
As a BCBA or RBT, you can't call it what the United Nations calls it: torture. You must use the cult jargon for all these things: manding, tacting, operant conditioning, functional control, reinforcement, deprivation, aversive stimulation. (Did I get it?)
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