What is ABA Therapy?

An informational video explaining what ABA Therapy is and how it works. The video is designed to provide learning for families that are about to begin receiving ABA therapy from Easterseals Southern California (ESSC).
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[@parentingfrontier2003]

thank you for this video. I've seen the best ABA results when a child starts as young as possible. Eighteen months old is not too early!

[@pixelpulse883]

another neurotypical on their high horse thinking they know best for us 🥱

[@cheeesysandwich]

ABA is traumatic to autistic people

[@duaaa8683]

I just wanted to know why any of them make video with a child who's not responding to their commands as my child is not following my commands i cant find out how to educate my self for his behavior their are many videos but only with those autistic kids who can follow commands and are verbal its too annoying for me keep on searching.

[@gagebatek1809]

Notice rapscailion never mentions the kids needs

[@kimw5199]

"For all individuals with disabilities and special needs and their families to be able to live, learn, work and play in their communities" "Areas that help them function in their environment" First few sentences

[@filipeflower]

​@@kimw5199Where exactly did you find that?

[@gagebatek1809]

I've been in several threads with him me and Daniel more

[@corazondejesus2600]

ABA really make a different in my kids life

[@EastersealsSouthernCalifornia]

We're glad to hear it! Thank you for sharing the news about your child's success!

[@mattynek2]

@@EastersealsSouthernCalifornia Succes right? nice.

[@mudbridge2762]

@@mattynek2 you sound very immature

[@liljimmy4940]

@@mattynek2 bro I have aspergers and I'm just learning about aba and I've heard personal points on both sides and I can see why you wouldn't like it, but you don't have to be so harsh about it. At the end of the day, it's usually your choice if you want to get it or not when you're an adult. I don't have a a therapy and I'm doing well myself but I hate the therepists. Why are you so worked up about it?

[@mattynek2]

@@liljimmy4940 I just hate obsolete "therapies" from the 70s once considered effective, but in a fact it's more like converting autists to neurotypical people

[@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks]

ABA is the most empirically backed, evidence based procedure to improve the lives of those on the autism spectrum....but totally not limited to that. It applies to ALL living organisms! Best field ever

[@gagebatek1809]

No just no it's just torture

[@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks]

@@gagebatek1809 no, you're just another dude who wants to hate ABA just to feel like a part of something because you were never accepted by anything before. You don't understand, you just want to feel cool. Tell me why it's torture

[@gagebatek1809]

@@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks check this out

[@danielmoore4024]

@@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks I've told you how it's torture countless times already, stop pretending you don't know, you really have no sense of empathy towards clients. All we ever hear from you is friggin "Science! Science! Science! Science! Science!" You're so insensitive. Since you keep friggin copying and pasting the same message, I'll do so here. I know you do ACT. A - utism C - onversion T - herapy Grounded in the basis of Radical Behaviourism. So you think it's acceptable to physically harm children internally just because you can't see the damage? That's careless of you, you should educate yourself, ABA clearly does not take health seriously. ABA methodology is physically and mentally harmful according to 21st century science. We know that when a person consumes alcohol they are causing liver damage, but the individuals consuming alcohol seem so happy about it. Something making someone happy does not mean it's healthy. On things like lung cancer from smoking, the cancer doesn't result after the first smoke does it? It takes smoking repetitively to develop blood clots and lung cancer. It's the same with ABA, things may look good now just like it looks good when you see a 22 year old drinking alcohol feeling happy at a party, it takes quite a period of time for illnesses and cancers to develop doesn't it? Putting children in anxiety triggering the fight or flight response then telling parents they have to go through with it, doing so releases adrenaline from the adrenal gland. Adrenaline damages blood vessels, increases blood pressure, increases heart rate which all greatly contributes to the development of heart diseases, just like tobacco greatly contributes to lung cancer and alcohol to liver damage. As science has progressed ABA has remained in the early 20th century, it's being proven so many human behaviours are biological responses to what's happening on the inside, how a person is responding to their thoughts and not the environment. The longer ABA continues refusing to come up to date with the rest of science, they're just going to continue living as their own culture. As long as they remain regardless of everything happening beneath the surface they will remain unethical, harmful and out of date. Each time ABA overstimulates a person tension develops in the muscles. Sustaining tension in muscles causes chronic pain, then when they teach them to keep overstimulating themselves they take the risk of developing chronic pain disorders. Not good! The nervous system is directly connected to the brain through the spinal cord, scientists who are actually up to date claim there's approximately 1,000,000,000 neurons in the nervous system that they're describing it as a second brain and is the size of a cat or dog's brain. As ABA practices damage the immune system the children become more susceptible to sicknesses and diseases, especially associated with age. Again, not good! Due to variation in the hippocampus autistic people are more vulnerable to depression, the ignorance technique is both damaging to child development and causes depression and a reduction of self-worth. When people are in depression there is a reduction to metabolism resulting in food being turned into fat instead of energy which is why depressed people snack more (because the food did not turn into energy) and increases fat storage. The body will feed off of sugary cells before calories while increasing fat storage pushing children in the direction of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, especially when they use sugary foods as positive reinforcement. Not good once again! I and any other up to date scientists can provide countless damages that are happening beneath the children's skin, as long as ABA continues being regardless of the harm it's doing beneath the surface I will not support it. Doing all of this to children as young as 2 years old, how much of an impact do you think this has on human development? ABA has not done a single longitudinal study of its methods and is entirely ignorant of the results we see later in life. Universities have investigated the results and suspicions of today's ABA, they tested lots of autistic people, results showed that those who were subjected to ABA are still 86% more likely to meet the criteria of PTSD and nearly 50% of the people they tested are actually diagnosed with PTSD. Those tested who were not subjected to ABA were found PTSD symptom free. That doesn't look good to me! More funding should go towards neuroscience to understand autistic behaviours biologically, by doing so they may come to find biological solutions. I use biological solutions and have successfully helped autistic children accelerate in progression as unlike ABA, scientists outside of ABA are actually up to date with scientific discoveries, not once has ABA updated with the rest of science. Until ABA updates its scientific methods, its functions of behavior, and incorporates modern day psychology - including neurology, child development, educational psychology, and other vital research - it cannot be considered to be a safe, effective, or ethical field. There should be something like this on every consent form: ABA therapy focuses on the behavior of your child but does not take into account modern research in neurology, biophysical factors in behavior, neurodevelopmental conditions, trauma, or child development. The methodology behind applied behavior analysis was founded in the ’50s and ’60s and your analyst’s education may not have incorporated more modern discoveries in psychology or behaviorism. Use ABA as a therapy at your children's risk!

[@GRIMES16]

@@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks because is uses electric shocks on children? because it uses physical punishment? because it thinks autism is a burden? because they use punishment such as yelling, physical restraint, taking the child's toys away? could that be why, rapscallion? (also don't start any "you're not autistic so you wouldnt know!" bullcrap. im professionally diagnosed and im an advocate.)

[@danielmoore4024]

ABA Therapy has been proven bias by the behaviourists' publications. By ABA using diverse techniques on diverse individuals makes ABA subjective, they cannot generalise subjective results meaning they do not have objective evidence. Published in 2021 by Psychological Bulletin Abstract The “replication crisis” describes recent difficulties in replicating studies in various scientific fields, most notably psychology. The available evidence primarily documents replication failures for group research designs. However, we argue that contingencies of publication bias that led to the “replication crisis” also operate on applied behavior analysis (ABA) researchers who use single-case research designs (SCRD). This bias strongly favors publication of SCRD studies that show strong experimental effect, and disfavors publication of studies that show less robust effect. The resulting research literature may unjustifiably inflate confidence about intervention effects, limit researchers’ ability to delineate intervention boundary conditions, and diminish the credibility of our science. To counter problems of publication bias in ABA, we recommend that journals that publish SCRD research establish journal standards for publication of noneffect studies; that our research community adopt open sharing of SCRD protocols and data; and that members of our community routinely publish systematic literature reviews that include gray (i.e., unpublished) research.

[@sanjugeorge2786]

Identify areas of strength need@narendramodi