Autism: Challenging Behaviour (Controversial Autism Treatment Documentary) | Real Stories
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Length: 58min 49sec (3529 seconds)
Published: Fri Sep 08 2017
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Tough love approach? I've never heard ABA be classified as that.
It's a behavioralist approach. Try and determine the function of a behavior and provide the function in an appropriate way, prior to the inappropriate behavior.
For example: Child with Autism begins hitting his parents after lunch. ABA determines that each time the child does this, he is sent to his room with weighted blanket - child calms. Purpose of behavior = regulation support. Solution - teach the child to request the weighted blanket or give the blanket immediately after lunch.
It's nothing wild or outlandish.
I am a school social worker who works with a couple of kids who receive ABA services outside of school. I am wondering if anyone’s ever come across “high functioning” clients/students who receive this treatment then learn to expect for every little thing that they do they should now get a reward. I have students who consistently ask “what do I get now” or “what’s the point” and have limited capacity for gestalt thinking. I would also describe these students as “prompt dependent”, meaning that without an external cue or reinforcement, they have very little to no stamina for independent school work.
ABA is pretty well known in the US mid-Atlantic, and does a lot of good for certain folks.
‘Tough love’ seems like a poor and misleading description tho, get ya sensationalizing titles outta here.
What’s ABA? Daughter is sleeping next to me and can’t watch the video.
Having been around some severely autistic children I can tell you that the short exposure you have to it viewing a video is nothing like living with them. Their behavior can be draining and isolating for their parents.
I don't think it's possible to make an autistic child indistinguishable from others as the one man said, but I don't see the autism as a part of their personality. Their autistic behaviors always seem to me like an uncontrollable urge their brain makes them act on, and it doesn't seem like the children enjoy getting caught in these 'broken record' behaviors.
One of the issues with autism/children with autism is their parents who, from a place of care, treat them like babies well past that time. They enable their selfish/one-track minds and their lack of understanding social norms by not being firm with them due to their sympathy for the child.
The argument of the man saying that autistic children should be allowed to be 'themselves' as teaching them to act positively with those around them is a way of taking away their personality and showing that they only deserve love if they are behaved is a nonsense premise. This is what everyone learns. If you are horrible to those around you and throw a hissy if you don't get what you want then no, people don't have to accept it and still like/love you and indeeed, quite often they won't care about people like that.
ITT: people who think they understand behaviourism from reading a few webpages.
Imagine a skill or hobby you once took up, or were pressured to take up, but were so terrible at, clearly not cut out for and you grew to resent, be a sport, language, mathmatics, learning an instrument or whatever.
Let's say playing the piano. Now imagine I force you into a building for 6-8 hours a day, and make you practice piano. I sit next to you, forcing your fingers to the keys, yelling 'no' at what seems like arbitrary times, and giving you a sweet at other times. To you everytime you press a key it sounds bizarre, like nails on a chalkboard, just slightly different each time. Not only that, as I'm teaching you, randomly telling you off or praising you, 10 other people are learning various instruments in the same room. The noise. And there's random lights flashing in your face every so often. If you try to get up I just pick you up and put you back down in front of the piano. Any self comforting behaviours you do like sighing or biting your nails at all this stress, I scream NO and stop you.
When you leave the training each day, piano music is all that plays on the television and radio, and it is all people talk about around you or to you. All you want to do is relax with some more self comfort, ice-cream, a soap-opera, even a glass of wine. Someone else screams NO and stops you again.
Eventually you learn that when you press the keys in a certain manner, I reward you more, and punish you less. You get better at the piano, though it all still sounds like noise to you. You're even able to join in with piano conversations with others and people look pleased, but it's meaningless and bores you to tears. Is this living? Are you now cured of your hatred for piano?
This is my issue with such practices. Of course we have to use such techniques to teach all children, including those with autism, some basic behaviours, especially those that prevent harm or injury. My problem is people with autism aren't wired to enjoy or need social interaction the way we do. We should conform to their needs beyond a basic level. Stopping someone from self-stimming by hand flapping is helping who? Who is it harming? You because you are embarrassed? These types of practices are so selfish and care zero for the individual at hand. You can't force people into your category because that's what's 'normal'. I don't give a damn if what is presented here isn't representative and it isn't about 'punishments' anymore. It's the overall theme which is wrong.
Isn't this technique actually pioneered BY an autistic person? Temple Grandin specifically?