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

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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.

A link?????

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

Not sure if this is going to work

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

Here??

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

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!

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.

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.

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.)

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

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.

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

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

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