What is ABA therapy, or Applied Behavioral Analysis? Why is it an inappropriate therapy for autistic kids? How did Ivar Lovaas convinced parents that ABA was better for their autistic kids than other options? How did ABA edge out other autism approaches? We recently sat down with Anne Borden King to discuss her new book […]
Safeminds has featured a story from The Autism Society on the topic of Applied Behavior Analysis. ABA is controversial in many ways. Some families call it a godsend, others a nightmare. What has your experience been with ABA? For my family, I can say that since getting out of the school system where data collection […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio It’s 2022 and By the Numbers is back. Last week, we released the Autism Drug Trial Tracker, an interactive tool to explore hundreds of clinical trials for autism and related conditions. All the code and data are open source, and we hope it proves useful to the autism research community. We’ll […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. Our first threads are from Shabeesh Balan, a researcher at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Wako, Saitama, Japan, and Toshihiro Endo, founder and scientist of Phenovance Research and Technology […]
