carlos55 wrote:
The key thing about ABA is does it work yes or no, show the evidence that it works & allow the detractors to give the evidence that it doesn’t & let the experts decide once & for all.
Ideology on whether to treat autism shouldn’t come into it, neither should old history on bad historic discontinued ABA techniques, we are talking about little kids futures afterall.
What does “work” mean? We know there are hundreds if not thousands of peer reviewed papers saying it “works” The experts decide what “works” means.
People and things do change but sometimes they just learn to hide the bad things well or they change the language to be palatable/politically correct. If like ABA their have a bad past that is adequate reason to be skeptical even if on the surface it seems all good. Even things that do significantly change often can’t erase all the bad parts. With ABA the insistence on using the words “tantrum,” “tantruming”, etc shows they do not understand or do not want to understand the difference between a tantrum and a meltdown. This is a significant flaw that makes me skeptical of how much they have really changed. Do not get me wrong I am glad they have made significant changes. One must wary of confusing bettor or less bad with good.
I don’t expect detractors to come up with anything close to the amount of peer reviewed data to counter the ABA monopoly in my lifetime. They do not have the money or influence. Researchers need money and want prestige. If you are an outlier that is much harder to get. The ABA industry has great marketers that know how to pull heartstrings and use words and phrases that convince. Those trying to counter them besides being vastly outspent often have difficultly communicating with the NT world and organizing. IMHO the ABA monopoly in America is vaguely similar to an army near victory conducting mop up operations. Most things that are accepted now started off as seemingly hopeless outliers so miracles do happen. It will take a miracle to successfully counter the ABA monopoly in America anytime soon.
vermontsavant wrote:
Nothing exceptional about the news report
That is the problem. It is an example of how the ABA industry has a stranglehold in how ABA is described in the mainstream media.
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