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froganon in friendly_crips

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Aug 05, 2015 02:52

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disabled communities, ablism, conditions: autistic spectrum, disablism, blogs

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sammason August 5 2015, 09:21:42 UTC

I'll Godwinise myself here, by saying that those who call ABA 'clinically proven' remind me of anybody using data from Nazi experiments on humans.

froganon August 5 2015, 19:52:14 UTC

Michelle Dawson has an excellent essay at http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_aba.html for anyone interested noting various ethical problems with ABA along with the so-called "clinically proven" status. Rather eye-opening. Lovaas was not such a nice fellow.

sammason August 6 2015, 09:56:21 UTC

You've probably noticed Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) but in case you haven't, here's the one from 1st May this year
http://blobolobolob.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2015.html

Those of us living seasonally might choose to submit our contribs for 2016 well in advance.

I hope you'll say something on BADD. Your voice is worth hearing. Btw ablism, disablism and various spellings of those words all mean the same thing.

nakedfaery August 6 2015, 22:57:59 UTC

Thank you for sharing all of this, it looks really interesting :-)

froganon August 7 2015, 03:08:38 UTC

I have bookmarked the blog example of BADD. I've seen BADD entries before but never figured what they were for! [It's the brain damage thing. meh.]. Is it only once a year?

Again, great community of folks.

sammason August 14 2015, 11:38:14 UTC

Belated response: yes BADD is annual. For those of us attached to the academic year, BADD's timing isn't ideal so I'm going to urge people in friendly_crips to prepare BADD contributions during the spring (N hemisphere) or autumn (S hemisphere).