>ABA most likely causes prompt dependence and PTSD, so there's no need for an "alternative" as ABA itself is abusive. This is mostly self-evident, and a staple in the literature, but here's some specific examples: 10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016
>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC. 10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181
>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years 10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005
10.1177/0145445511405513
>"Behaviorism" isn't a science; Behavioral Psychology is, but Behaviorism is the philosophy that the former is the only, or most important, form of psychology.
>It's questionable whether or not autisitic people are even disabled enough for therapy in general, as the DSM diagonosis no longer necessitates language abnormalities, which would mark an actual problem, not an idealist label. This is why behavioral therapy that's more than 5 hrs/wk is rare in europe, for example 10.1177/13623613241230709
10.1177/13623613221117955
10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3
10.1177/1362361315577218
>Pragmatically speaking, ABA is extremely expensive, with the low intensity variety costing about 60,000 dollars a year. This is equivilent to six years of schooling depending on where you are so people will expect that it makes the difference between vegtablized human pets and sovietmen; certainly, ABA won't make you the latter, but merely being useless means the axe, as indiana, tricare, and ontario have already cut funding for it. It's basically just a matter of "Hey, wait a minute! Can't use this money to give families of disabled children UBI, tax credits, or actual healthcare instead?" And the individualist culture of the US can't save you. 10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.007
>And no, socialism won't change this, as the USSR disregarded behaviorism as bourgeois, and they were more than right to do so. https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/1850697 (Pp. 25-32)
The "ABA is the fastest growing industry" thing is a psyop to make you think that behaviorism is natural and that there's nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, the industry would collapse if the public were informed of the actual science and not feel-good anecdotes.
"I'm a mother of an autistic child and you're delusional" is not evidence
"SIBs are bad" is not an arguement
"I know your frustrated, but…" is not theory
"Seek therapy" is not praxis
Nothing is created
Everthing is adapted
God is real
Let's put him down
>>2411462I bet Matthew Israel really wishes he were young right now. He'd fit right into the Trump Administration working alongside JFK Jr. I
love how these people have been so successful in manufacturing consent for the new mass incarceration. When the abuse in the private mental institutions and "Wellness Camps" inevitably comes out, you'll all pretend you were always against this.
>>2411812How about don't torture your kids because "it's your only option."
Literally, it's Blue MAGA bullshit. Both sides of the machine are evil bastards here.
>>2412153Or, you could just let therapists and psychologists do their job without making bad faith arguments.
Autistic idpolers who rant against ABA are way too similar to the right-wingers who rant against vaccines. Let the fucking medical experts do their damn job.
>>2412559It’s not my job to tell a psychologist how to do their job when my knowledge of psychology is limited to a few books on psychoanalysis and medical journal articles.
Autistic idpolers ranting against ABA are nearly identical to MAGAts ranting against covid measures. Political activists with no in-depth understanding of medical issues or psychology shouldn’t be railroading actual medical professionals and psychologists.
>>2411533>confronted with material realityNeoliberals are like "the fact we have made political choices and used our political will to throw some children away is just nature, its basic economics, its simply material reality that we chose this and you idealists are childish…nooo you can't call me a 'degenerate nazi collaborator', actually I bear no responsibility for just doing my job!!! I'm just following orders! I am a soulless neoliberal NPC who is part of
material reality where socialists have zero political will to help or harm children"
>>2411602>>2411618>Sorry I'm a communist and not an activist.<"Marxism is the ideology of soy armchair pseuds who smugly support torture brainwashing of the working class to fit within capitalist political economic slavery">>2412565>It’s not my job to tell a psychologist how to do their jobyeah that's the job of Ritchie Torres and The Lobby! They have a tight control on their literal CIA MKULTRA brainwashing torture psychology organization, which they are using in their attempt to gaslight Americans about Zionism being normal:
https://www.jns.org/torres-calls-out-american-psychological-association-for-anti-jewish-bias/ >>2412565>>2412587Then read a fucking book.
Maybe start with Robert Chapman's "Empire of Normality" or Regina Kunzel's "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life." Also possibly read Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's "Health Communism."
>>2413147Nobody cares.
How are tards relevant to class struggle at all?
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