Therapy for Autistic Behaviour?

I know some people who had ABA, and that is dreadful in their and my opinion.

I'm not going to put more on here at the moment because I don't know if it is relevant to you.

I've never heard of ABA, what is it?

Applied behaviour analysis. If you've read 1984, its like locking a child in Room 101 with their triggers and repeating for ages. There was a documentary on BBC not long ago (the Chris Packham one) and they "treated" a girl who hated being touched by getting her 50 odd year old "teacher" to kiss her repeatedly. She was mute. It was the creepiest and cruelest thing I've seen in a long time. If anyone wanted to kiss my junior school aged daughter, ASD or not, repeatedly I'd be in jail for GBH. It was horrific. 

Loololl, that special smell of educational halitosis!

Why the kissing? Because the guy was obviously abusing his role of trust to enact sadistic sexual urges towards children. Watch the documentary. There is no other logical conclusion. You can say I'm bad minded or paranoid but the look of excitement and glee on his face towards a totally distraught pre-teen girl was just wrong. ******* sicko. The girl didn't like to be touched, never mind kissed. How can kissing help a child that doesn't like to be touched. There is a big jump between the two. ABA seems pretty uncomfortable at best, sadistic routinely but this was something beyond comprehension.

Sorry for the rant but yeah it still makes my skin crawl.

The Americanization of the UK! I spoke to a Autism worker about ABA who has been in the field for about 20 years. I mentioned my distain of ABA and she was enraged about its introduction and popularisation. She's normally a placid and calm person. She was swearing and ranting. Rightfully so. I think that it won't catch on. Lots of people abhorr it. It's like something from a Josef Mengele fever dream.

Wow!  Teachers and coffee breath!  That's a human rights violation surely?  I'm with you on that.  Why the kissing?  Very odd.

The worst thing is that ABA is currently used and recommend in the UK as treatment for autistic children to make them more'"normal" 

It made me so angry to watch. The fact that the "teacher" had chosen a mute girl just made me want to stomp out the guy. It stank of sexual abuse. Very, very creepy. The therapy itself was cruel but the way the "teacher" was handling the girl wasn't appropriate. I haven't got kids but that made me question the parents too. It was bad.

It made me so angry to watch. The fact that the "teacher" had chosen a mute girl just made me want to stomp out the guy. It stank of sexual abuse. Very, very creepy. The therapy itself was cruel but the way the "teacher" was handling the girl wasn't appropriate. I haven't got kids but that made me question the parents too. It was bad.

The Americanization of the UK! I spoke to a Autism worker about ABA who has been in the field for about 20 years. I mentioned my distain of ABA and she was enraged about its introduction and popularisation. She's normally a placid and calm person. She was swearing and ranting. Rightfully so. I think that it won't catch on. Lots of people abhorr it. It's like something from a Josef Mengele fever dream.

The worst thing is that ABA is currently used and recommend in the UK as treatment for autistic children to make them more'"normal"