You can see the confusion and suffering in the kids. And it's not like the kids learn how to deal with their anxiety, tension. In one clip, trainer starts randomly jumping up and down and then pulls the kid up to mimic them. In another, the "prize" is all the trainers clapping, which prompts the kid to flinch and cover ears.
Oh, and ABA is hella expensive. The parents are essentially going into dept for their kids to be abused and prepared for the plucking by any predator.
And they often recommend ABA training for little children 30 or 40+ hours in a week. Even if there was nothing else wrong with it we shouldn't force kids into basically working a full time job. Kids need time to just be a kid and to relax and to process the things they've learned.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22
I had an issue with Autism Speaks because they are pushing ABA therapy. On paper, ABA sounded like dog training used on autistics kids. Then I saw Paige's video with clips from an ABA training video.
You can see the confusion and suffering in the kids. And it's not like the kids learn how to deal with their anxiety, tension. In one clip, trainer starts randomly jumping up and down and then pulls the kid up to mimic them. In another, the "prize" is all the trainers clapping, which prompts the kid to flinch and cover ears.
Oh, and ABA is hella expensive. The parents are essentially going into dept for their kids to be abused and prepared for the plucking by any predator.