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TV Piece about a little boy with Autism & parents fight to win funding for home programme

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mymatemax · 15/11/2007 00:02

Our regional news program ran a piece tonight about a family & their fight to win funding.. & they WON!
You can view it on the BBC Website. BBC East & the program is called inside out.

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moondog · 15/11/2007 17:50

A link?????

mymatemax · 15/11/2007 19:10

OOh i'll have a go but i'm rubbish at links

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mymatemax · 15/11/2007 19:59

Not sure if this is going to work

www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2007/11/08/east_autism_s12_w9_feature.shtml

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moondog · 15/11/2007 20:26

Here??

Davros · 15/11/2007 20:44

Ha ha, its called a new treatment. I suppose it is compared to leeches.

Davros · 15/11/2007 20:48

Mind you, not having seen the TV prog, the written piece is quite good. It does perpetuate the idea that ABA must be 40+ hours and expensive or don't do it!

mymatemax · 15/11/2007 20:50

yes I think the reporter thought he had uncovered a wonder treatment
the parents weren't making any claims but were just highlighting the cost of funding a home program & the fight with the LEA tribunal & there was an interview with a rep from IPSEA etc.

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sphil · 15/11/2007 21:19

I am amazed at how many people haven't heard of ABA though. The OT came round to observe our home programme in action today and she'd obviously never seen or heard of anything like it before. I wish it was more widely known about - I get tired of explaining it to people over and over again, with at least half of them thinking we're running some obscure hippy dippy scheme. (The OT didn't - she was impressed, but her eyes were so wide I thought they'd pop out ).

So anything like this which gives ABA a more public airing is worth it, imo.

moondog · 15/11/2007 21:22

Dead right.
I am a salt doing an MSc in ABA and I think it is FANTASTIC.
I spend a lot of time doing PR for ABA amongst doubting/ignorant colleagues.

My uni has just completed a definitive piece of research which proves that ABA brings about clinically significant change compared to other more mainstream therapies.

I can give the reference if anyone wants to cite in in a claim for an ABA programme.

(That link doesn't work btw.)

mymatemax · 15/11/2007 21:38

sorry. I did say I wasn't any good

If you type www.bbc.co/insideout should get you to the right page & just select the article headlined autism

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sphil · 16/11/2007 12:32

Moondog - I would love that link please. Think I may be up for a bit of a battle with the head of the m/s school to allow DS2 to do p/t school, p/t ABA at home.

moondog · 16/11/2007 16:18

Hi Sphil

[[http://www.researchautism.net/publicfiles/research_report_001.pdf Here is a user friendly account from the website of Research Autism.

I attend Bangor Uni (one of very few places in Europe to offer an MSc in ABA) and the head of my dept. is Richard Hastings (one of the researchers)

I have another useful document that I can photocopy and send to you which has been complied with situations like yours in mind.
Cites all the hard facts from the research.
E mail me on [email protected]

HTH

moondog · 16/11/2007 16:18

Here is a user friendly account from the website of Research Autism.

moondog · 16/11/2007 16:21

And again..

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