THE CHANGING FACE OF "AUTISM THERAPY" ABA IS DOWN. PEER MENTORING IS UP.

BY MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY

Everywhere you look, Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is either likened to torture, or at the very least, confronting an awful history. And yet it has a stronghold on parents and schools as the only universally-funded behavioral strategy for autism supported by state governments and insurance providers.

"Life coaches" are springing up all around, but with no guarantee of a sustaining market— and have those coaches actually "walked the walk" in their own lives?

Peer Mentoring is a tiny fraction of the available options – yet has no detractors. But of course I'd say that! Because it's what I do!

And that's a good point to end this intro on because everyone has a financial stake in what gets called "effective," and "proven," whether they really are or not.

BEARING THE BRUNT: ABA is the only universally-funded behavioral strategy for autism supported by state governments and insurance providers; In the autism world, we've gotten things wrong.