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Re:A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big... by hkt on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:58PM (#28778327)
My son's speech therapist described ABA as horse breaking, and the (way more humane) approach she uses as horse whispering. The approach she uses is JASPER: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34348479/

Edit: a part of the criticism I've heard for ABA is that it doesn't generalise, so kids know how to function only in a very limited set of circumstances and are often frozen with anxiety outside of them. It is also an all consuming lifestyle for the whole family.

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Re:A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big... by CalRobert on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:32PM (#28779305)
That's definitely true re: all consuming. It literally became my mom's entire purpose, and from the moment she woke up to the moment she went to bed she was working to get her daughter to talk.
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Re:A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big... by hkt on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:05AM (#28783134)
I'm in a similar mindset but won't do ABA - my son is minimally verbal but has come along at a gentle pace since we started. I'm quietly confident that just engaging him and building his joint attention will do the right thing.
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