Is ABA Behaviour Interventionist a good job for an aspie?
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That's a very powerful weapon indeed. It's a very powerful idea.
This has led to the Lovaas 'method' of beating kids on their sides, and everything else. And really, the autistic person is just there. There's no second person hiding inside them. Just a person with various intense interests and various ability or not in talking.
Temple Grandin said that with a seasoned, experience speech therapist, sometimes you can pull the child out, but you've got to be careful, sometimes you just push the child further in.
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I like the method, play to strength. For example, I'd read that learning sign language has positive transfer if and when talking comes.
I think a lot of autism professionals view stimming as both a symptom and part of the problem. I view stimming, yes as one symptom of autism, but then as part of the solution. I mean, poker players, baseball players, and a bunch of other people stim. A high school student bouncing their knee during an algebra test is engaging in stimming.
I'm all in favor of the distinction between public and private stimming. Perhaps teachers, autism coaches and others could help model lower-key stimming for use in public. In the same speech, Temple Grandin said she was not allowed to stim at the table during lunch, but she was allowed to stim during rest period after lunch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEAhMEgGOQ
That's a very powerful weapon indeed. It's a very powerful idea.
This has led to the Lovaas 'method' of beating kids on their sides, and everything else. And really, the autistic person is just there. There's no second person hiding inside them. Just a person with various intense interests and various ability or not in talking
At least in the modern times, no behaviourists think that there is a "second person" hiding inside a person with autism. Each person we work with is just like everyone else... Someone who has a unique profile and potential to learn.
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Leading a double life and loving it (but exhausted).
Likely ADHD instead of what I've been diagnosed with before.
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I remembering speech therapy for r-sounds when I was in junior high (ages 11 to 14).
I did fine with initial r-words, but then when I got to words like "lizard," "party," "pear," "car," the teacher kept saying again, again, again. It was extremely frustrating. She never told me how to make the sound.
When I took speech therapy as an adult, that person could tell me how to make the various sounds. It was a world of difference. I think she was a specialist in speech therapy, as was this other speech therapist I saw. Whereas the junior high person was a special ed generalist doing the best she can.
Maybe if she had gone at the task in more diagonal directions, instead of just full frontal.
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In junior high, this other kid and I would go to speech therapy. One time, the lady had us play tic-tac-toe for the whole session, even though it was cat game after cat game. Of course, it was! Neither one of us were stupid. It was like she clumsily stuck with her lesson plan for the day. She even commented, Oh, I hope someone makes a mistake soon (or drops their guard, or something of that sort). I felt this pressure to throw a game. I think I tried to see if I could make one mistake and recovery. The other boy won, and she effusively praised him.
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We might disagree on some theoretical things, but it sounds like you embrace a healthy interplay between theory and practice.
I bet you do a good job and your clients are lucky to have you.
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