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Ana54
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04 Jan 2008, 4:03 am

Anyone had Applied Behavioral Analysis? I haven't had it done to me, and don't know anyone who has, but I've read some parents' horror stories about how their kids were traumatized perhaps for life by it.


I was tempted to sign up for the ABA course at the community college, lol. Just to see what kind of people want to do this. And just what they subject those kids to!



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04 Jan 2008, 8:15 am

You should check this site out:

http://community-2.webtv.net/CIBRA/CIBRA/


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04 Jan 2008, 2:33 pm

Never experienced this.

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04 Jan 2008, 3:00 pm

I wish I had ABA when I was younger. I'd have more friends and girlfriends and would probably be married by now with a good job and a nice house. I would have been much happier due to the social skills I would have learned with ABA.



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04 Jan 2008, 3:26 pm

zendell wrote:
I wish I had ABA when I was younger. I'd have more friends and girlfriends and would probably be married by now with a good job and a nice house. I would have been much happier due to the social skills I would have learned with ABA.


There's no evidence that it does that, in fact a lot of evidence that by puberty all the "indistinguishable from peers" types become quite distinguishable by then.


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04 Jan 2008, 3:47 pm

anbuend wrote:
zendell wrote:
I wish I had ABA when I was younger. I'd have more friends and girlfriends and would probably be married by now with a good job and a nice house. I would have been much happier due to the social skills I would have learned with ABA.


There's no evidence that it does that, in fact a lot of evidence that by puberty all the "indistinguishable from peers" types become quite distinguishable by then.


Do you mean learning social skills doesn't help? I didn't talk at all when I was a baby and didn't talk much during most of my childhood. When I became a teenager, I started wanting to have friends and a girlfriend. A big problem I had was not understanding people due to not having experience with social situations. I think it would have been better to learn what I needed to know instead of having to figure it out on my own. I don't think it would have made me "indistinguishable from my peers" but I think it would have helped.