'Mum' successfully challenges bad advice from Scottish Govt. about ABA

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www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6048622

interesting - I wonder what the re-write wil look like, though

Gosh I hope the rest of the country will follow Scotland's lead, and will start to realise that those of us using ABA aren't some kind of deluded nutters - but have actually found a system of teaching autistic kids which is uniquely well-suited to their particular needs (or such is the case for all the mums I know who use it). This country could save a lot of money and energy by swapping over from TEACCH to ABA. It wouldn't be hard either.

In Scotland here, two state nurseries & two state primaries later for my 'mild' asperger's son (aged 6), can only say glad for this woman.
Nothing else to gloat about here I'm sad to say.
Seems very expensive parenting programmes (ie/ PPP) are being pushed, my son's behaviours (extreme sometimes)aren't covered within such schemes.

The most stupid argument against ABA in the original wording was that the time could be better used doing effective interventions like TEACCH - a circular argument as they had given no proof of such efficacy in the first place. I do think TEACCH has some benefits for some children in some circumstances, but it does seem that it has become a false idol for many professionals and that they probably do genuinely believe that no child could ever benefit from a different approach. PPP is just another waste of supposedly scarce resources, there are already lots of Supernanny type books around for NT children if parents want them.