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Aug 28 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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NeuroClastic is conducting a survey seeking professional perspectives on the use of contingent electric skin shock (CESS) as punishment to shape the behaviour of disabled people.
If you're employed in one of the these fields or a graduate student in a one of them, please consider taking the brief CESS survey:
#psychologist
#psychiatrist
#BehaviorAnalyst
#teacher
#OccupationalTherapist
#SocialWorker
Other allied health professional
surveymonkey.com/r/skinshock
NeuroClastic is on Twitter as well (@NeuroClastic), but they're more active on Facebook than here. facebook.com/NeuroClastic
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Aug 30
Sodium unfairly got bad rep. We need sodium in our diet. Some of us absorb too little. If you think your sodium intake may be a problem, consider adding more potassium, or lower sodium a bit, but don't try to eliminate it. Drastic reduction creates new problems. Some of us...
...may have unusual health issues that require unusual reduction.
Why add potassium if you have too much sodium? Potassium 'competes' with sodium. Some people who easily lose potassium may need to be more careful about their sodium intake.

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Aug 29
The same bunch of ABA professionals from last week are still arguing, but we're a bit further along now, where one of them is at least duly aghast at the electric shocks given at the Judge Rotenberg Center and the involvement of prominent ABA leaders and institutions.
Two of her colleagues have decided, though, that it's probably necessary science.
They've also been trying to change the subject, by goading me with terms like 'neurodiversity activists' and 'Facilitated Communication'. I think it perplexes them that I'm not interested in taking their bait.
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Aug 28
I've been having a discussion with a team of hardcore ABA professionals from a specific company over the past few days, and the problem is, believing what we say is just not within their framework. They believe behaviour they can measure, not what we say it represents.
And this is common.
Interestingly, this phenomenon of dismissing a person's description of their own feelings and sensations pervades other professions too. This thread presents examples, not exclusively those of autistic people, but focusing on chronic illness and pain.

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Aug 28
This is a question for South Africans.

I have been asked to help get justice for someone who was raped and who had a baby from the rape.

More info in next tweet.
She is at risk because of who the rapist is, and the informant (my contact, not the victim) is also at risk, but can pass on all the key information if her identity is protected.
The informant has tried various organisations, but they either say they can't help or they don't reply.
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Aug 20
As I understand it, the word 'safari' means 'journey' in Swahili. Is that right?

As a South African, I have a question about what a 'safari' means in the tourism context, because I see lots of foreigners coming to South Africa for a 'safari' and clearly it's not just a journey.
In fact, I don't think the average South African or the average African ever goes on this thing the tourists call a 'safari'.
So, it seems to me that a 'safari' is not just a game drive, but it nearly always INCLUDES a game drive.
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Aug 14
Now, this thread started with Planned Ignoring.

To give you an idea of the 'best practices' for Planned Ignoring in ABA, I'm going to quote something which a well-known ABA expert said about it a few weeks ago.
"Behavior analysts—please help everyone in and outside of the field understand attention extinction of some sort of behavior does not mean you should ignore the person engaging in the response. It means that you don’t react to the response. Don’t react = no change."
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