Thread by @ekverstania

We told you this was an imperialist cult.

ABAI has an expansionist arm called SABA.

They are serious.

They want to set up control areas in all spheres of society.

ABAI are the people who give a platform to the Judge Rotenberg Center.

It's not just about autism.

#BanABA

https://twitter.com/AppliedBehEcon/status/1526912370521657345

They want to mainstream ABA to make it completely unstoppable.

It's a strategy. If they succeed in normalising ABA beyond its current applications, we will have a much harder time trying to stop them from doing this to autistic children.

https://twitter.com/AfricanAutists/status/1494089143034552322?t=8yyO2xS9QUXVbL-gm-fy4w&s=19

https://t.co/WV1qODuPXP

ABAI has its own business development organisation to spread ABA into new areas of application throughout the world.

This is a cult, it's a moneymaking human rights violating cult.

https://twitter.com/AfricanAutists/status/1494088498357452800?t=8yyO2xS9QUXVbL-gm-fy4w&s=19

They're all complicit.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1429874902715314186?t=8yyO2xS9QUXVbL-gm-fy4w&s=19

They're hellbent on getting their ROI.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1378320758888357889?t=8yyO2xS9QUXVbL-gm-fy4w&s=19

Ask delegates attending their Convention this week whether they're prepared to join hundreds of other ABA professionals in speaking out against the most extreme forms of abuse being perpetrated within their profession. Use the #ABAI2022 and #ABAIBoston tags to find some of them.

Share this with BCBAs on Twitter. Ask them to support it.

https://twitter.com/AutismInspired/status/1529381310137044992?t=6ayvM_pq1d-G_LK84zHGgA&s=19

While #ABAisAbuse (#YesAllABA), some abuse is worse than other abuse. The worst abuses are those supported and endorsed by ABA's professional and certification bodies. Some ABA professionals disagree with these abuses.

Ask ABA professionals directly if they're prepared to stand up to the organisations that promote or allow obvious torture. Ask them what they're prepared to do to #StopTheShocks. As ABAI members and credentialed BCBAs, they CAN collectively stand up, if they care.

As long as the Judge Rotenberg Center continues to operate, thousands of ABA professionals will continue to say, "We're not bad like Those People!" whilst being complicit in supporting the very organisations that protect Those People.

The BACB, CARD, ABAI, Semel Institute -- they're all complicit. While they fail to name, shame and destroy the diabolical elephant in the room, they have no legitimacy, even among those who believe that ABA is a valid therapy.

The corruption isn't at the bottom. It's at the TOP. BCBAs and RBTs and other ABA professionals who think they care about human rights need to have the courage of their convictions to stand up against the leaders of the abuse: their own professional standards bodies.

Ask every BCBA and RBT on Twitter what exactly they intend to do to #StopTheShocks.

They are credentialed by the same organisation that issues the credentials of the JRC torturers.

They could put pressure on the BACB to strip the JRC leaders and staff of their credentials.

Where does this little story fit in? The dude who has been deleting this survivor's accounts of torture and abuse just so happens to be on the board of the torture house. What a coincidence!

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1530821068377710592?t=m_Roge4dB2x_NWrEbLyghA&s=19

His name is Josh Pritchard, and there's something very special about him.

Remember, ABAI wants to multiply and fill the earth!

Now that's where guys like Josh come in.

See, Josh's research focuses on "discovering and creating less expensive alternatives to traditional animal laboratories, transferring behavioral principles into marketable goods to better quality of life and environmental behavior, and global dissemination of behavior analysis."

It's a worldwide business, folks!

And together, ABAI and the JRC want to take this business to the next level.

Working with international students of ABA, Josh is exactly the kind of guy they need to snuff out survivor stories and scale up the torture business. abainternational.org/constituents/b…

By the way, ABAI says it operates several task forces, but if you look at the list, there's actually only one task force.

And guess what it focuses on... Surprise! Seems to be their beeeg priority right now.

abainternational.org/about-us/organ…

Here are the names of the people on that ABAI CESS task force:

Dorothea Lerman, University of Houston-Clear Lake

Michael Perone (Chair), West Virginia University

Stephanie Peterson, Western Michigan University

Dean Williams, University of Kansas

Would you care to look into what other interests they have?

Let me help you out by starting on this page.

wmuace.com/about/directory

Stephanie Peterson is at Western Michigan University along with faculty collaborator Dr. Richard Malott
(Professor Emeritus, Psychology).

And ABAI's headquarters happens to be in that part of Michigan too. Must be a coincidence!

But who's Dr. Malott?

Of course, he's another member of the board at the Judge Rotenberg Center.
judgerc.org/phone/board.ht…

It stands to reason that his colleague should be on the ABAI skin shock task team, since she's probably well informed, as an insider.

Michael Perone published along with Malott before, and I'll let you look up the rest...

Anyhow, these old friends will be having a little reunion on Monday 30 May, no doubt to pat the JRC on the back again.

abainternational.org/events/program…

Lotsa Western Michigan goin' on here!

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1478266824244576257?t=gOCD61T8KBbCNdPi1KyyRw&s=19

Small world, really, this ABA business. Coincidence perhaps, that the BACB hasn't spoken out against any Western Michiganders who've been giving ABA such a stinky name?

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1478269502341230594?t=DtFECcDtiuqjdAVPSxZB0A&s=19

By the way, this is one of the other experts on the task force: Dr Dorothea Lerman is a well-published ABA expert with papers on everything from stopping stimming to developing job skills.

She just happens to also be an expert on punishment. on... punishment.

All the content warnings for this interview with her... description of restraint... Ableism throughout.

She's just published a big literature review on punishment, and what she believes is that there should be more research on punishment to establish the optimal amount of punishment.

By the way, the other guy, Dean Williams is also recognised by ABAI as a great contributor to the missionary work of the ABA movement, by building acceptance for ABA in other disciplines. (This is one of the main strategies of the cult now, as you may have noticed.)

Dean works with both humans and animals, and he has also been studying punishment for many years, including research on punishing autistic people for stims.

You know what they'll say if you stand up against this, won't you? These guys have spent their careers preparing to tell you that punishment works, it's evidence-based, and if you don't like it, you're going against science.

Of course, punishment is always a last resort. If you put down your #StopTheShock poster like a good little BCBA, remain in your seat, and dutifully suck up your raspberry gummi bear, we won't rub in the fact that aversives really aren't your specialist area, dear.

/s

The day has arrived! The Torture Apologists Task Team are doing their pitch now. Here's a livestream of the event.

https://twitter.com/BethMarieKelly/status/1531367266113269760?t=5pBzd6Ys_Fth-MyCkI6LaA&s=19