lostonearth35 wrote:
"She gets ABA therapy"
Well I just died a little inside.
Maybe she has horrible anxiety from what was described on a pro-ABA website as "similar to training dogs". Except that autistic people are not dogs, they are human, and most sane people would never train their dogs that way, and would get arrested for animal abuse if they did.
Wow, talk about something "Shooting itself in the foot"
Were one of us to make that assertion about ABA being like training dogs, I could imagine the retorts and pushback from the ABA industry, and being accused of having no actual arguments and just resorting to insults, so when a pro ABA source uses the those same words the a link to that would be a fine resource.
It is possible that without outgoing speech, movement is the most accessible communication style. Ones cat cannot communicate in spoken language, but if one has the privilege to be a cat's human companion one slowly learns what various movements, body wiggles or stretches might mean, the various forms of "The Look" regarding chair use, food bowl levels etc, similarly the tail language meaning " I have had enough hand petting now" or "Please stroke just my head"