Ask an Autistic #5 - What is ABA?

What is ABA? What is the purpose of ABA therapy? Is ABA good for Autistic children? Is there a link between ABA and PTSD? What's the alternative? Answers to all of these questions and more in this episode of Ask an Autistic!
Note: At 1:15 I say, "the operant being the Autistic child", but what I meant to say was, "the operant being the Therapist".
Writings on the connection between ABA and trauma/PTSD:
www.astraeasweb... (part one)
www.astraeasweb... (part two)
www.autistichoy...
unstrangemind.w...
autismmythbuste...
Writings on the topic of ABA and other behavioural therapies:
www.sentex.net/...
www.thinkingaut...
thecaffeinateda...
thecaffeinateda...
a-view-of-my-ow...
neurowonderful....
Writings from the parents of Autistic children:
emmashopebook.c...
emmashopebook.c...
loveexplosions....
emmashopebook.c...
lifehiswayblog....
My blog: / neurowonderful
The track used in this video was "Like Music" by pheraph
creativecommons...
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