[Note: Shared for #AutisticHistory archive purposes. This is NOT An Autistic Ally.]
The New England Center for Children (NECC) is an independently-operated, private special education residential school in Southborough, Massachusetts, United States.
It was founded as the Efficacy Research Institute in 1975 by Vincent Strully, Dudley Orr, and John Pangburn. The organization changed their name in 1986 to the New England Center for Autism and relocated to Southborough. The title was revised again in 1996 to the New England Center for Children.
NECC uses intensive applied behavioral analysis (ABA) interventions, or Autistic Conversion Therapy, for Autistic students ages 14 months to 22 years old.
[Note: This profile is in progress. Last updated: November 20, 2021]
Timeline
1975
Efficacy Research Institute launched.
Founders: Vincent Strully, Dudley Orr, John Pangburn
1986
The organization changes name to New England Center for Autism.
1996
Organization changes name to the New England Center for Children (NECC)
1999 – 2005
NECC was part of the Autism Coalition For Research & Education (ACRE).
2005
NECC was one of the clients lobbying on H.R.2421, the Combating Autism Act of 2005.
The Combating Autism Act, and later state-by-state legislation to reform insurance to cover Autistic Conversion Therapy (ABA) through Medicaid and private insurances.
June 9, 2011
New England Center for Children is mentioned in an article with Laura Slatkin, co-founder of NEXT for Autism and board member for Autism Speaks.
Laura Slatkin’s son attends the residential school in Boston, Massachusetts.
Timeline in progress.
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Note/Warning:
Autistic people have fought the inclusion of ABA in therapy for us since before Autism Speaks, and other non-Autistic-led autism organizations, started lobbying legislation to get it covered by insurances and Medicaid.
ABA is a myth originally sold to parents that it would keep their Autistic child out of an institution. Today, parents are told that with early intervention therapy their child will either be less Autistic or no longer Autistic by elementary school, and can be mainstreamed in typical education classes. ABA is very expensive to pay out of pocket. Essentially, Autism Speaks has justified the big price tag up front will offset the overall burden on resources for an Autistic’s lifetime. The recommendation for this therapy is 40 hours a week for children and toddlers.
The original study that showed the success rate of ABA to be at 50% has never been replicated. In fact, the study of ABA by United States Department of Defense was denounced as a failure. Not just once, but multiple times. Simply stated: ABA doesn’t work. In study after repeated study: ABA (conversion therapy) doesn’t work.
What more recent studies do show: Autistics who experienced ABA therapy are at high risk to develop PTSD and other lifelong trauma-related conditions. Historically, the autism organizations promoting ABA as a cure or solution have silenced Autistic advocates’ opposition. ABA is also known as gay conversion therapy.
The ‘cure’ for Autistics not born yet is the prevention of birth.
The ‘cure’ is a choice to terminate a pregnancy based on ‘autism risk.’ The cure is abortion. This is the same ‘cure’ society has for Down Syndrome.
This is eugenics 2021. Instead of killing Autistics and disabled children in gas chambers or ‘mercy killings’ like in Aktion T4, it’ll happen at the doctor’s office, quietly, one Autistic baby at a time. Different approaches yes, but still eugenics and the extinction of an entire minority group of people.
Fact: You can’t cure Autistics from being Autistic.
Fact: You can’t recover an Autistic from being Autistic.
Fact: You can groom an Autistic to mask and hide their traits. Somewhat. … however, this comes at the expense of the Autistic child, promotes Autistic Burnout (this should not be confused with typical burnout, Autistic Burnout can kill Autistics), and places the Autistic child at high risk for PTSD and other lifelong trauma-related conditions.
[Note: Autism is NOT a disease, but a neurodevelopmental difference and disability.]
Fact: Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism.
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