[ABA: dehumanizing child torture passed off as therapy]
I'm still reading through Steve #Silberman's #NeuroTribes. I'm currently nearing the end of the longest chapter, "Fighting the monster", of which the latter part is largely about Ole Ivar #Lovaas and the origins of #ABA. It makes for […]
Weil ich gerade das Lovaaszitat wieder rausgesucht hatte... der ist nicht der einzige, der das Menschsein von uns Autisten in Frage stellt... #noABA #autismus #lovaas
Nur so zur Erinnerung. Und das Zeug ist zum Teil aus diesem Jahrtausend...
“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense - they have hair, a nose and a mouth - but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.” Ivar Lovaas, a founder of ABA
Mit den Sätzen drum herum wird's auch nicht besser... #autismus #lovaas #noABA
If you're interested in an approach that doesn't qualify as torture, drop #ABA, #PBS, #Lovaas, et al and get on board with the #DavisAutismApproach.
Details below. Strengths based, ND-affirming. Not sure on trauma informed, but heavily implied.
“I just reacherd over and cracker her one right on the rear. She was a big fat girl so I had an easy target. … The she hit herself again and I really laid it on her. … So I let her know that there was no question in my mind that I was going to kill her if she hit herself once more, and that was pretty much it.” Lovaas, a founder of Applied Behavior Anaylsis Interview with Paul Chance about his work with autistic children
“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense - they have hair, a nose and a mouth - but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.” Ivar Lovaas, a founder of ABA
Was der Erfinder #Lovaas von #noABA zu Gewalt schrieb? Und was er für ein Menschenbild hatte? Passt super dazu.
