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In the Loop About Neurodiversity 11 hrs · CTA: Contact Pennsylvania Representatives and tell them to vote NO on an ABA bill, HB1900!! An ABA bill, HB1900, was introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last month. If passed, it will provide state licensure to ABA therapists in Pennsylvania as well as establish the Behavioral Analysist …
ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) as a discipline, requires autistic children to appear as if they are typical children. It doesn't matter how kind and well meaning the teacher, whether they are autistic or not, a loving parent or not—the outcome is that the "successful" autistic child ceases the behaviour that defines them as autistic. They …
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Before finding out she was autistic, one woman took a job as a registered behavior technician to provide ABA therapy to autistic kids. This is how training went. Source: Becoming an ABA Registered Behavior Technician Before Knowing I Was Autistic: Part 1 – Restraint Training | The Aspergian | A Collective of Autistic Voices
Autism Society of America was established in 1986 by Bernard Rimland, Ivar Lovaas, Ruth Sullivan and a small group of parents of autistic children. Two of those names should sound familar. Bernard Rimland was the creator of the DAN protocol and Ivar Lovaas was the creator of ABA and Conversion Therapy. That should say enough about the organization. Source: Fierce …
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SLP Neurodiversity Collective started this petition to American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) A recent announcement made by ASHA, (American Speech & Hearing Association) states that Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) will soon be able to obtain Board Certified Specialist in Autism Spectrum Disorders (BCS-ASD) if we “have completed training related to the implementation and supervision of evidence-based intervention programs in a variety of …
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Close SLP Neurodiversity Collective URGENT ACTION NEEDED - ABA: U.S. families are regularly denied insurance coverage for physician-prescribed, evidence-based therapy due to the widespread fabrication that there is only one scientifically proven approach to speech and language therapy - ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis). A PENDING CALIFORNIA BILL …
Neuroscience threatens the foundational theories of behaviorism, and the ABA lobby has tried hard to suppress the fact that behavior is abuse for apraxia. Source: The “Severe Autism” Concept is Behaviourism’s Final Stand | The Aspergian | A Neurodivergent Collective
