iamthestrangerinmoscow:

I shouldn’t have to say this, but if an “educational method” is not okay to use on neurotypical children, then it’s not okay to use on autistic children. You wouldn’t spray water (or hot sauce) on a neurotypical child for making mistakes in math, so why is it okay to do to autistic children in ABA? You wouldn’t take away a neurotypical’s child favorite toy for misspelling words, so why is it okay to do to autistic children? You wouldn’t hit neurotypical’s child hand for having bad handwriting, so why is it okay to do to autistic children?

Even if you are trying to teach autistic children useful skills like tying their shoelaces or interacting with other people (and not trying to make them less autistic by suppressing their perfectly natural autistic behaviors, like most ABA “therapists”), you still shouldn’t use abusive and traumatic methods! Using ABA methods to teach neurotypical children school material is abuse, and you know it. So is using ABA on autistic children. For any reason. Please remember about that.