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This is a copy of tonight's ABA Leaks letter to the American Montessori Society.

2018-12-07T19:22:00.097-05:00

ABA Leaks
Neptune, New Jersey

[On August 12, 2020, we added the lone aversives sections below. We did not include that part in the original letter." We also made some minor edits since we mailed the original. DA]

Re: Warning, coercive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is pushing into Montessori.

Dear Melanie,

Your office gave me your email address to contact you. I see you are involved with "school concerns," so it looks like the nice young lady who answered the phone sent me to the right Montessori person, by the sound of her voice, of course.

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is forcing its way into Montessori schools and the actually autistic community is up in arms against ABA and its coercion.

For example, Curtis Clough is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. His page there says, "has most recently been employed as a Behavior Analyst by the California Montessori Project for the past two years. There he has designed and monitored behavioral intervention plans for students with various diagnoses across six schools in the Sacramento area. He has provided individual and group trainings for professionals, administrators, teachers, and aides in the use of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)."

I lead ABA Leaks. We have a Facebook page with 32,000 followers. We have been investigating ABA since 2007 in our Reward and Consent blog which has had 279,000 page views.

Although we do not know the work of Mr. Clough individually, so we cannot recommend or reject his work on this basis alone, without seeing his work directly or in video, we have seen that other behavior analysts have been saying they are involved in your programs.

Your Montessori archive collection provides us with a fine history. The first paragraph says, "Teachers guide but do not control, each child progresses at his or her own pace, and the noncompetitive atmosphere of the classroom allows working for the pleasure of learning rather than from fear of punishment or anticipation of rewards."

This is the exact opposite of ABA. B. F. Skinner founded ABA. He often said their purpose was to explain and control behaviors. (Search for "explain" and "control" inside his 1971 bestseller Beyond Freedom and Dignity.) ABA is all about adding and removing rewards and punishers. This is one of their memes.

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board is the body that approves the credentials of BCBAs. Its Fourth Edition Task List requires them to master exactly ten "scientific" concepts and skills which contain the root word "to punish." There are also many ways they "reward" behaviors, as seen in the list. Skinner (1938) showed food only reinforces hungry or underweight rats, not full or satiated ones. That is why you often see ABAers try to modify what they call behavior "problems of social importance" with sugary treats, which cause obesity and diabetic eating habits. We will eat sugar on a full stomach. It's highly addictive.

I emailed an editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis asked him what ethical standards they used to deem a behavior "socially important." He admitted he had no answer, but we know it's the highly-unintelligent, popular-norm-of-the-day standard by which ABA has promised the world its techniques can solve both "homosexual and autistic deviance" alike.

ABA aims to force our autistic peers to be indistinguishable from our neurotypical peers, yet we love our "autistic superpowers." WE run the computer industry. See the introduction to the former NY Times bestselling book NeuroTribes.

We proudly use identity-first language yet ABA has been calling us "deviant" for a century. We call them "boring clones" in return.

We're "autistic people," not "people with autism." So we don't HAVE autism; we ARE autistics. Person-first shames our identity. Anyone who uses it with us doesn't follow the autistic community, even though the United Nations (paragraph 7) said WE are the best experts on autism. Only WE know how great it feels to be us.

Gay Conversion Therapy comes from ABA. We equate that with Autistic Conversion Therapy.

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[This is the new section on ABA aversives. August 12, 2020. DA]

It doesn't take rocket science to know that when you hurt somebody you can force them to "obey" your "demands," but any five-year-old bully can tell them how to do it with one good punch in the nose. ABA started its little inquiry in 1938 and they're still trying to figure out the "best way" to torture their "human and nonhuman organisms." They have so many journals now, they can't count them all at once. See here, here, here, here, and here.

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In ABA jargon, we become their "experimental subjects" so they can "control" the "relevant variables" in the "environment" of their "experimental" human "organism" subjects, that you can force them to submit. They call this "obedience." It's common sense logic that if you torture people, you can force them to submit to your demands, temporarily, of course.

You can force a gay man to marry a woman and pretend he's straight. When he comes out of the closet, he prevents trauma. He no longer lives a lie. The same goes for us. They can force us to appear "neurotypical." That's why ABA and PTSD trauma go together. Fortunately, however, we're unmasking our true selves, coming out all over again. We aim to bankrupt ABA, one penny at a time.

We do peer support, instead. ABA Leaks recommends homeschooling in autistic peer groups with no ABA. They're in every special education department in the USA public schools under the guise of "Positive Behavior Supports." In theory, they don't punish, but in practice they do. Even they told parents it's a "myth" that "we will no longer punish students for inappropriate behavior."

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In their ethics code, the Behavior Analyst Certification Board barely restricts the use of "aversives" by their Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs). They don't define the term, but they say any BCBAs with "increased training," can use their punishers.

Their "aversion therapy" includes pinching, putting hot sauce in the mouth, using drugs to induce nausea." Lovaas was a madman. He said he combined "Screams, Slaps, and Love" in his UCLA lab 1965. He used Life Magazine to pitch his "new science" to there world. The fraud had begun. He shocked the bare feet of "deviant autistic" just like Skinner shocked rat paws. Now ABA is a two billion dollar waste of taxpayer money.

Examples include:

Extreme heat or cold, bitter flavors, electric shocks, loud noises and pain. Aversives can be applied naturally (such as touching a hot stove) or in a contrived manner (such as during torture or behavior modification). Aversives can be used as punishment during applied behavior analysis with autistic children to reduce unwanted behavior such as stimming or self-injury. Aversive stimuli may also be used as negative reinforcement to increase the rate or probability of a behavior when it is removed.

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In 1967, the British Journal of Psychiatry said, "Yet another technique which can throw fresh light on psychopathology is electric aversion, a method now used increasingly in the treatment of certain sexual disorders. With this method separate symptoms can be treated in turn, and their interrelations can thus be changed and studied. With careful clinical control and measurement we can examine the importance of various aspects of sexual disorders hitherto open to observation but not to detailed modification."

In 1968, the same journal liked this "faradic" shock on a "transvestite." They said, "Given a female sex therapist with whom he could practice and perfect the art of love, conveniently replayed during aversive sessions would he have bothered to cross-dress?" And on "deviant fetishists...aroused by female underclothes," which "is only abnormal if is not also roused by the female body itself."

Their brilliant leader, B. F. Skinner, supposedly opposed punishment. He wrote Beyond Freedom and Dignity in 1971. His 1973 edition is a free download. Noam Chomsky (1971) reviewed it in the New York Review of Books. Here's his full version. He said:

Skinner (1971) assures us repeatedly that his science of behavior is advancing mightily and that there exists an effective technology of control. It is, he claims, a “fact that all control is exerted by the environment” (p. 82). Consequently, “When we seem to turn control over to a person himself, we simply shift from one mode of control to another” (p. 97). The only serious task, then, is to design less “aversive” and more effective controls, an engineering problem. “The outlines of a technology are already clear” (p. 149). “We have the physical, biological, and behavioral technologies needed ‘to save ourselves’; the problem is how to get people to use them” (p. 158).

The problem in “design of a culture” is to “make the social environment as free as possible of aversive stimuli” (p. 42), “to make life less punishing and in doing so to release for more reinforcing activities the time and energy consumed in the avoidance of punishment” (p. 81). It is an engineering problem, and we could get on with it if only we could overcome the irrational concern for freedom and dignity. What we require is the more effective use of the available technology, more and better controls. In fact, “A technology of behavior is available which would more successfully reduce the aversive consequences of behavior, proximate or deferred, and maximize the achievements of which the human organism is capable” (p. 125). But “the defenders of freedom oppose its use,” thus contributing to social malaise and human suffering. It is this irrationality that Skinner hopes to persuade us to overcome.

But Skinner and his legacy only oppose punishment for "normal" people. This is how they treat the "deviant" "abnormals." As the dominant editor in 1968, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis punished the "autistic behaviors of an autistic child" because she climbed on their precious family furniture. They didn't put monkey bars in the yard. She could have been a gymnast. Skinner supposedly opposed punishment, was so smart, he decided to torture her, instead. After all, we have the "right to effective behavioral treatment," so we better shut up and take it, whether we like it or not.

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We're ABA Leaks of Facebook. This is our blog. Our investigation exposed to the autistic blogosphere the fact that the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) officially torture. The autistic self-advocacy network (ASAN) followed our lead two days later. See the second paragraph here. Then others followed. See here, for example. They didn't give us any credit for breaking this critical story. ASAN's co-founder, Ari Ne'eman, never called us back after we asked him about it. We're still waiting for an answer.

So we were the first team of autistic investigators to condemn ABAI for their decision to feature the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) at their 2015 annual convention. JRC, which uses contingent electric shock to modify the behavior of disabled students and has been condemned by the United Nation’s special rapporteur on torture, was listed as both a presenter as well as a Bronze sponsor for the ABAI annual conference from May 22nd–26th.

As they said in their conference materials, sponsorship indicated that the “ABAI convention sponsors" had been "approved by the Organizational Review Committee as being aligned with ABAI’s mission to contribute to the well-being of society by developing, enhancing, and supporting the growth and vitality of the science of behavior analysis through research, education, and practice (p. 19).” In addition to sponsorship, JRC maintained a booth and presented three separate sessions there that year.

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[The rest was in the original letter. DA]

This is how they shock:

ABA aims to squelch self-stimulation, which soothes us. They call this "stereotypy" and they promise parents they can "fix" us. Now we are doing our own version of coming out. We even stim in public. We unmask our autism and we love it.

Item FK-03 of the Task List is Determinism. This means that BCBAs must assume there's no such thing as freedom. This comes from Skinner (1974) Beyond Freedom and Dignity. While they disagreed on methods, surely neither Montessori nor her philosophical peer John Dewey claimed that freedom is an illusion. Indeed, he would say ABA is a "crime against democracy" in this respect.

Lastly, never believe what an ABAer says s/he does behind closed doors. Always watch or film it. No science always only paints a rosy picture of itself and sweeps under the rug the harm it causes, yet this is ABA, the pot calling the kettle black, as it accuses other methods of pseudoscience.

We urge you to know what ABA is doing as it pushes its way into your schools as it has done to Speech Language Pathology (SLP) and into nations all over the world.

The SLP Neurodiversity Collective courageously takes a strong stand against ABA. We urge you to follow them.

See Altier (2016). The "data" is in. Each and every Applied Behavior Analysis member completely supports or is complicit to ABA's extremely painful electric skin shock "torture." Establishing argument: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is different from Positive Behavior Support (PBS), despite some overlap. PBS rules out ABA punitive techniques as unnecessary and therefore unethical. However, PBS does punish in practice, despite its theoretical claims that it doesn't.

In conclusion, Montessori probably used to be fine, but we cannot recommend it until your leadership makes a public statement against ABA. In the meanwhile, we have no choice but to publish the content of this letter and hopefully your response, please. To ignore us is to put us on extinction, ABA-style. We don't expert you will, however. That's what they do to us.

Sincerely,

Dave Altier
Of the Roman Altieri Italian diaspora extended family
Master of Arts in Teaching
Georgetown University trained and published in ethics.
New Jersey state certificated Special Education teacher
Proud autistic man

You're making a list? Checking it twice? Do yourself a favor. Skip it.

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It’s a waste of time to make a huge food shopping list. Instead, before you go, open your cupboards and your refrigerator door to see what you DO have. Then when you get to the supermarket, everything is already arranged into one big list. Just go up and down the aisles to find what you DON’T have, remembering what you do.‬

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) would call it your “data sheet." What drudgery! How they must suffer the obsession to record all behavior!

ABA Autism Data Sheet

ABA Leaks finds the Judge Rotenberg Center knew it sent high voltage surges of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electricity into the skin of epileptics, which was "not unusual" there. Most victims are non-white. ABA is a fake science. Here's why:

2018-09-01T09:42:00.001-04:00

ABA Leaks is a team of autistic and otherwise disabled investigative journalists and advocates against the coercion and control of cruel and unusual Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). It was founded by this Reward and Consent blogger, Dave Altieri, who began his inquiry into ABA back in 2007. Astounded by the all-out support in ABA for punishment he uncovered, which their leader, B. F. Skinner, opposed, supposedly, his inquiry soon became a full-scale investigation with a professional support team now on board.

Yesterday, he was organizing his files and he stumbled upon a blog post by Dick Malott which he had stashed away in his drives. This is what he found.

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Richard W. Malott (January 7, 2013), JRC Board member, had visited the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in and around Canton, Massachusetts and took notes while he was there. At note "n," he said,

Male, early twenties, at JRC about 8 years, non-verbal, autism, MR moderate to severe. Been on many meds. Seizure disorder (which is not unusual here). Behaviors, biting himself and others. Even when the staff wear heavy arm guards, he can seriously bruise up and down a staff member's arm. Even when he's having fun, he may become non-compliant and then dangerously aggressive. With electric shock punishment, dangerous behaviors fell from 5000/ month to 50 /month.

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The victims are 80% non-white. Why is that? See also Altieri (April 6, 2017). ABA Leaks asks if the Judge Rotenberg Center's director of high-voltage ABA skin shock torture lied to the IRS about possible racial discrimination in Massachusetts. At one point 87% of their clients were people of color. [Updated, links repaired September 5, 2018].

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This not the ECT brain shock of Psychiatry.

ABA calls this contraption their Graduated Electronic Decelerator (GED). Israel and Marsh (April 19, 1994) patented it as an "Apparatus for Administering Electrical Aversive Stimulus and Associated Method." In The Washington Post Autistic Hoya, Lydia Brown, (July 22, 2014) published a perspective entitled "It’s illegal to torture prisoners and animals, but not disabled people" and said it "emits 45.5 milliamps of electricity—a shock more than 15 times as powerful as the stun belts designed to incapacitate violent adult prisoners."

These shockers usually just claim they can "effectively" eliminate a variety of "severe problem behaviors," but what really happens is something completely different.

The current JRC Executive Director in charge sends currents through strapon electrodes almost anywhere on the body, including the buttocks, which she told the FDA in Glenda P. Crookes (December 21, 2012, p. 2, par. 3). This stream of electrons is ABA's "independent variable which causes the dependent variable to modify." The effect is a change in behavior patterns over time, which they measure, recorded, and chart onto Cartesian x- and -y axes algebraic graphs. Rate of behavior, therefore, decelerates, which represents the "D" in "GED."

Jennifer Msumba

Jennifer Msumba illustrator

From Jennifer Gonnerman (August 20, 2007). The school of shock. In Mother Jones.

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B. F. Skinner was the Grandfather of all behaviorists. He was the first to tinker with electric punishment in what came to be called his Skinner Boxes. Originally, he called them "experimental chambers" in his first book Behavior of Organisms. Back then in 1938 he only punished them by smacking their paws with a bar as they reached to pull the lever which brought them tiny pellets of grain. He wanted them hungry, so he underfed them. He knew they were ready for the soundproof boxes when their body weight was low enough.

He learned that the value of food as a reinforcer is more powerful under food deprivation "establishing operation" states. This is why ABA needs one of two scenarios to take place whenever they use food as a reward. Either 1) the autistic toddler must be somewhat hungry when the parents bring their youngsters in for their rapid, intensive, Discrete Trial Training, "submit-and-obey-my-demands," forced-normality drills, or else they addict them to sugar, which people will eat after full on a meal. The latter is more common in the images they use on the web to market themselves to gullible parents.

We can't blame "Autism Mom" and "Autism Dad," though. ABAers use ABA on them, too. They put them in a panic with horror stories of autism. No doubt, they aim to imply to them that somebody could report them to Child Protective Services if they refuse to hire an ABAer. "They need us to teach swim safety or they can drown."

The Association of Professional Behavior Analysts shows Autism New Jersey (2014) how to lobby the NJ Department of Banking Insurance so the analysts can rake in even more money for ABA insurance coverage of autistic adults throughout the state. If enacted, this statement would be a gigantic fraud upon these states' already overburdened taxpayers. It's a diatribe against the proudly-identified autistic adult community railing about what tragedy they are, supposedly.

ABA refuses to ever consider in their reports all of our bonafide anecdotal evidence self-reports of the PTSD trauma ABA causes us. See the ABA Terrible Timeline in Dave Altieri (April 29, 2017) and "Evidence of increased Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in autistics exposed to ABA" in Henny Kupferstein (October 12, 2017).

In the meanwhile, the Association for Behavior Analysis International's (ABAI's) CEO-in-charge Maria Malott, ex-wife of Dick Malott, JRC board member, anonymously ostracized Altieri from her old Facebook group immediately after he exposed to her 10,000+ rank-and-file group membership his (May 20, 2015) post entitled "ABAI officially 'approves' the JRC of extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture."

Soon he founded ABA Leaks and came to blog Altieri (February 16, 2017). "ABA Leaks finds the seventh death with Canton, Massachusetts Rotenberg school of high voltage Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) skin shock was an unborn baby of a seventeen-year-old girl, according to Massachusetts' Disabled Persons Protection Commission. Yet, there are many so-called 'Christian' ABAers in the southern states." This block quote introduced the paper:

On February 7, 2005 the seventh death with Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) of high voltage Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electric skin shock "torture" occurred. The body was an unborn baby of a seventeen-year-old girl, as confirmed by ABA Leaks in a phone call with a representative of Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC). In 2015 DPPC sent ABA Leaks' Freedom of Information Act journalist Evan Anderson a spreadsheet of 410 serious abuse allegations taking place inside the JRC in a recent ten year history, averaging one charge every ten days, including sexual abuse and burns from their ABA skin shock devices. Reward and Consent inquiry about ABA has grown from 2007 into a full-scale investigation called ABA Leaks who gave Anderson the phone number of their anonymous source inside the Massachusetts government. He then led him to find DPPC who quickly replied to his Freedom of Information Act requests with documents which can make your hair stand on end to read them, including the 410-item database. Then Anderson (May 4, 2016), an independent journalist, published his findings in "Complaints allege abuse at JRC. The focus on the use of shock devices at JRC overlooks the numerous reports of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse that plague the institution."

Soon came Altieri (May 1, 2017). "ABA Leaks finds A Clockwork Orange in Denver. The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) officially 'approves' Canton, Massachusetts high voltage 'skin shock therapy' after autistics told ABAI year after year to stop endorsing their torture and abuse. Is all Applied Behavior Analysis Empathy Disabled (ED)? They should all shock one another at their next annual convention to know precisely how their pet project feels all over their bodies."

They also aim, but fail, to silence Henny. Crying "pseudoscience," ABAI's Program Committee (December 6, 2017) rejected her application to present a paper to their Annual Convention in San Diego. She called her project "Evidence of similar symptoms in ABA recipients and patients with PTSD." They charged: Inaccuracies! Invalid research!

One final note on this subject of fake science. It is logically impossible for ABA to be an overall scientific system. It is merely a cruel set of cruel and unusual, coerce and control, behavior modification models. No true human science always only paints a rosy picture itself, which is, in fact, their fraudulent manner of marketing their enterprise to the general public at the expense of the actual autistic he victims and survivors they drill and abuse. It is not possible for true science to exclude from its academic journals all reports their victims have published regarding all the harm they have caused them.

B. F. Skinner shocks rat paws with electric grid floors in his "experimental chambers."

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Joshua K. Pritchard, Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D) is a Rotenberg Board member. Images below show him opening a package of an electric-grid-floor Skinner Box. ABA Leaks retrieved them in Facebook.

So does Pritchard shock rats in order to figure out more "effective" ways to "torture" mostly African- and Latin-American human beings? Does he speak of them as experimental subject organisms of the Homo sapiens species? This is what Skinner (1938) called all animals, including people, in his first book, Behavior of Organisms.

Why does the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) allow him to keep his BCBA title? Why can't BACB's CEO, James E. Carr, BCBA-D, his credentialing corporation to write an ethics code that banishes actual torture? Why is this so difficult? Perhaps both of them should submit themselves to inescapable zaps for decades, with no end in sight? They should give themselves a taste of their own medicine, not just one mere sample of shock when the boss cheats by asking, "Are you ready?" Then they know when it's coming, just like the nurse tells you the needle is on its way into your arm. No.

It's not that practical inside the Rotenberg lockup. Carr and Pritchard need to immerse their lives. Remove any sense of power they once felt. Strap them into their heavy GED backpacks all day long every day of the year for three decades with no end in sight. Bolt the terminals across their calves to help them sleep well at night. Then throw away the key. The eldest Rotenberg "experimental subject," which Lydia Brown (2016) reported, is well over 60-years-old if he's still there, and if they haven't killed him, yet, just like the other known seven Judge Rotenberg deaths.

It's perfectly clear that this the only way they can learn how to behave "appropriately" toward the proudly-identified, actually-autistic, Neurodiversity community which is all up in arms against them in one, vast, incredibly-strong-and-united international internet force under the hashtags #NoABA because of #ABAisAbuse! Fresh, new, first-hand reports of ABA-provoked pain and suffering emerge on a weekly basis. ABA is on a collision course with itself. Destination Poor House. Autists run the computer industry. Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs each rumored Aspies. ABAers are vastly outnumbered according to the spectrum demographics. Last but not least, that man with the oversized skull, the brilliant, intensely-driven inventor, that man who can drill a savage group of wild and crazy control freaks into a cult of coercing and control, identical-looking clones, ladles and jelly spoons, is also an autistic savant. Ivan Pavlov is turning in his grave to realize B. F. Skinner is an autist!

What if Carr, Pritchard, and Company should discover for themselves their first epileptic seizure under a surprise skin shock attack when they had no idea what they did to deserve it?

So tell ABA to follow, the Golden Rule of Ethics, for once, and flip it. Jesus would say, "Don't do unto others what you wouldn't have them do unto you." Skinner was an atheist, however. He claimed freedom is an illusion, according to his behavioral philosophy of determinism. It should be no surprise, therefore, that in the BACB Fourth Edition Task List, Carr requires his certificants to assume the same. His Task List item FK-03, in fact, is "Determinism."

Furthermore, should any BCBA deny she does so-called "aversion therapy," then ask her if she can count to ten. Her list contains exactly that many job skills and concepts which contain the root word "punish" that she needed to master in order to pass The Big ABA Exam. They're usually ladies, so that's why she/her pronoun fits well into this paragraph. The BACB's Nosik, Luke, and Carr (2018, p. 5) said, "In 2016, there were 3,584 newly certified BCBAs, 88.0% (n = 3,154) of whom were women."

Josh Pritchard, Rotenberg skin shocker, opens his Skinner Box. It looks like it has an electric grid floor. Why? To shock rats to figure out "more effective" ways to shock the dark skin of autistics, schizophrenics, bipolars, intellectually disabled, epileptics, and so-called "juvenile delinquents," from New York City neighborhoods. ABA Leaks found they even place electrodes on the buttocks.

Applied Behavior Analysis is Lost in Space with Dr. Skinner-Smith. "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Dr. Skinner approaches your living quarters!"

2018-08-23T20:41:00.003-04:00

[Updated September 8, 2018. DA]

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) comes from B. F. Skinner's coercive version of atheism, from which most certified ABAers must deny the existence of freedom. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Item FK-03 of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board's Fourth Edition Task List is "Determinism," which means they claim freedom is an illusion. Then they act accordingly. We’d need a computer bigger than the universe to account for the infinite number of particles to know if our surroundings determine what we do, so ABA believes in determinism, but treats it as fact.

Meanwhile, it “controls challenging behavior with consequences” to force normality upon atypicals. ABA adds and removes rewarding and punishing stimuli in order to get its way. This first image shows their view of the world.

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Not even the brain inside ABA Grandpa B. F. Skinner's mammoth skull ever figured this one out. Dr. Skinner-Smith couldn't even get the Lost in Space robot to answer the problem of freedom. Instead, it flailed its arms and cried, “Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Skinner-Smith approaches your living quarters! Elope from the BFer before it's too late!”

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Skinner’s (1945) second daughter Debby was the Ladies' Home Journal "Baby in a Box." He scrolled a long sheet of cloth under her so his wife wouldn't have to change diapers. It was such a modern convenience.

Just like the new kitchens of his day.

ABA Leaks finds that another convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) officially "approves" high-voltage Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) high-voltage skin shock in Massachusetts, even as over 200,000 global citizens petitioned the FDA to finish its proposed ban on the device.

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Does CEO Maria Malott understand how cold she seems?

This is not Psychiatry's ECT brain shock. ABA admits it intends to "effectively" cause pain, and it does, though ineffectively.

Therefore and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights of the students of the JRC (Judge Rotenberg Center) subjected to Level III Aversive Interventions by means of electric shock and physical means of restraints have been violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards (Méndez, 2013, p. 85, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights).

Here's proof in the picture file and caption link below:

"44th annual convention. Meet our exhibitors and sponsors. Judge Rotenberg Education Center premier exhibit sponsor. Current exhibitors San Diego 2018" downloaded April 24, 2018 from ABAI's website.

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They do it again this year. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) completely ignores the entire international community of more than 200,000 emancipated autistic adults, otherwise disabled adults, especially ADAPT, parents, professionals, and outraged citizens against them.

They are as predictable to us as a precisely set "Clockwork Orange" nightmare come true. The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Annual Convention of ABAI 44th Annual Convention at San Diego dating from May 24 to May 28, 2018 has once again officially "approved" what the UN calls "torture," extremely painful electric skin shock by the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) based in Canton, Massachusetts. ABAI says JRC is "aligned" with ABAI's "mission." This as they have approved year after year even as JRC shocked innocent autistic children while binding their victims onto four-point ABA restraint at ankles and wrists into their immobilizing shackles.

ABAI CEO Maria Malott and her people said they have once again listed JRC as a "sponsor" late this May. Their site does not yet provide a downloadable .pdf of this year's convention Program Book in our Google query today, but in all the years in the past when ABAI made their Book available on their website, their Book has said, in their own words, that they officially "approve" their convention sponsors as being "aligned" with ABAI's "mission." See documented proof linked inside Altieri (2015, 2016, and 2017).

Maria Malott spearheads a vast behavioral network of "sheeple" who follow their guru, atheist B. F. Skinner and his freedom denying legacy (Skinner, 1974). She has once again turned her back on the decent people at the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC) who rapidly and willingly gave our ABA Leaks team of independent Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) specializing journalists a spreadsheet of 410 severe JRC/ABA abuse allegations, within which lies item 10 which exposed to the world the fact that death number seven at the JRC was an unborn baby of an expecting seventeen-year-old mother. A DPPC attorney told us her age at the time of the incident on the phone. See Altieri (February 16, 2017).

Maria Malott

Dr. Maria Martha Hübner, an ABA leader in Brazil, is Past President of ABAI's governing Executive Council from 2014 to 2017, according to the ABAI Program Book (2017, p. 9). It was mostly during her reign that we downloaded the files to show precisely how she presided over ABAI's official endorsement of what we certainly know is torture, and what we have clearly demonstrated is real torture. See Altieri (2015, 2016, and 2017). And see, for example, the essay we highly regard by Quentin Davies (August 9, 2014). "Prisoners of the Apparatus": The Judge Rotenberg Center.

In the meanwhile, Malott reported to Hübner as her CEO, yet Malott will not talk on the phone with ABA Leaks nor will she send an email to us with her name. A few times they, however, they have sent us have anonymous Facebook messages and emails, but this stopped a few years ago. They cannot out-debate us in spite of their objections to what we consistently and undeniably expose about their PTSD-trauma provoking so-called "shock and aversion therapies" under their by-any-means-necessary, un-Christian, cruel and unusual punishments. They do not do unto others. They wouldn't do this unto themselves.

Dr. Maria Martha Hübner, an ABA leader in Brazil, was Past President of ABAI's governing Executive Council from 2014 to 2017, according to the ABAI Program Book (2017, p. 9). This was her role while ABAI approved skin shock torture as her organization officially "approved" ABA's skin shockers as being "aligned" with ABAI's "mission," her words, not ours. They did this year after year, even after the autistic community told them in no uncertain terms that ABAI must cease their unconscionable behavior, so now they leave us no option but to tell the world all about it despite their failed attempts to censor us in the social media. Is ABA a mass-scale international insurance coverage for bad treatments fraud? Stay tuned as we aim to find out.

So Maris Malott, CEO of ABAI, did it again this year, approving "torture" this May in San Diego, even after Quentin Davies (August 9, 2014) amassed and presented a large collection of critically important facts about JRC, which clearly and effectively countered any and all ABA false dissemination claims that shock is supposed to be a good thing for autistic and other kinds of children and adults.

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Davies' sources ranged from an array of governmental investigations into JRC, to other key advocacy reports, especially Ahern and Rosenthal (2010) Mental Disability Rights International "Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture," to some top-notch, fearless and professional investigative journalists, most notably Ms. Jennifer Gonnerman who wrote "The school of shock" (August 20, 2007), as well as "School of shock. Why are we treating autistic kids like enemy combatants?" And in Mother Jones, co-authored (Gonnerman and Sultan, September/October, 2007), "School of shock. Why are we treating autistic kids like enemy combatants?" And then in New York Magazine, Gonnerman wrote: "31 Shocks later. Andre McCollins' mother thought she’d finally found the right school for her son—one equipped to treat his behavioral and developmental problems. Then she took a closer look at that treatment" (September 2, 2012).

Andre McCollins later, photographed as he is suffering under his ABA-provoked PTSD traumas, no doubt.

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Maria Malott has even decided to dismiss the findings of ABC Nightline Terry Moran:

Maria Malott, Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, which refuses to listen to the cries for help of autistic and otherwise disabled victims of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electric skin shock, contingent, upon, among other things, believe it or not, disobedience and classroom noise. This is not the ECT brain shock of Psychiatry. The media calls ABA/Rotenberg skin shock founder Matthew Israel, Dr. Hurt.

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Malott now once again this May dismisses the fine work of Fox News Mike Beaudet, who at court convinced McCollins' presiding judge, as the family sued the pants off of ABA, to release his skin shock video to the public.

Andre's mother Cheryl said, "I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized, and abused. I had no idea, no idea that they tortured the children at the school." She testified she heard on the video of her son's day of shock JRC staffers were "laughing as her son was on the floor," said Beaudet.

Malott still today seems to muffle closed her ears so she will not hear Andre's screams of pain, "No! No! Aaahh! Help! No! No! Oww. No. Help me! AAAGH!" as Malott's peers shocked him 31 times in one day. Why? Because he refused to remove his coat, even though the ABA/JRC defense had a different story.

Malott would rather side with JRC's team who sent a representative to testify under oath that he wasn't there that day, so he didn't know whether or not it was cold in the room when he wouldn't remove his coat upon ABA demand for obedience. This JRC witness at the court told the jury this in response to the right-on-target aggressive questioning by McCollins top-notch Medical Malpractice attorney, Mr. Benjamin R. Novotny, esq., of Lubin and Meyer in Boston.

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As far as we know, Malott has no reply to Anna Werner of CBS Evening News who interviewed another JRC skin shock survivor, Jennifer Msumba, who told Werner, "That was like being underground in hell."

And as Cheryl McCollins told Werner, "It doesn't work. Shock them out of autism? What is that gonna do? Inflicting pain. It's like you're making the injury worse."

Maria Malott prefers to hear JRC's ABAers who compare the shock to a mere bee sting, which is completely non-credible to us.

She will side with ABA/JRC Director Glenda Crookes, who told the FDA her people install her device electrodes all over the body including the "upper quadrant of the buttocks." ABA Leaks Special Education teacher Pam Zich sent a FOIA request to the FDA to obtain Crookes reply to her violation letter according to her use of unapproved and more powerful devices, whereby Zich, in blog, first exposed to the world that JRC attached electrodes to the buttocks, among other places all over the body.

Yet Crookes told Werner that the ABA/JRC victims are not afraid of shock. "It's not a fearful thing."

Jennifer got the shocks. Crookes didn't get the "treatment," at least not for decades carrying the heavy backpack full of shock equipment, as some of her victims have.

Jennifer, on the other hand, said, "It's so scary, I would ask God to make my heart stop. 'Cause I didn't want to live when that was happening to me. I just wanted to die to make it stop." Yet Jennifer states the obvious, with brilliant common sense logic, "It's easy to control people when you hurt them."

So who does Malott believe Crookes or her victim?

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And how does Maria Malott respond to CNN's Anderson Cooper whose analyzed the behavior analysts, for a change, in the mainstream media, rather than accepting their dissemination reports without question, as the press usually does on behalf of ABA.

It is worth noting that Cooper mistakes JRC's Research Director's, Nathan Blenkush's title. He is not a "Board Certified Analyst." Blenkush doesn't tell him on camera that he's actually a "Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)."

Here is our exclusive ABA Leaks transcript of the first part of the CNN ABA/JRC skin shock program, quoting Cooper:

"Some of their claims don't seem to hold up to the facts. For example, on the website, the school says the device they use to shock students is FDA 'approved.'

"It isn't. We checked with the FDA and they told us they 'cleared' the device. That's the word 'cleared' in 1994 for use by Judge Rotenberg Center on the basis that it was basically the same as an aversive conditioning device that was already on the market, but in 2010 the FDA inspectors discovered that the school was using a souped-up version, a stronger version of the device that delivered much more powerful shocks. Inspectors were concerned among other things about the risk of burns. As a result, the agency says it told the school back in 2010 the device was no longer quote, unquote "cleared" under its earlier ruling. It's not clear what's happened since then. The FDA declined to comment when we asked. They did say in no uncertain terms the school should not be referring to its skin shock device as FDA approved.

"In a statement, the school provided us last week they also said, quote, 'Behavior modification techniques involving the use of aversive interventions including skin shock are heavily regulated in Massachusetts by the Massachusetts DDS and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.'

"What the website doesn't mention is that skin shocks have been banned in Massachusetts since last September. The Massachusetts Health and Human Service Department told us quote,'The administration filed regulations last year to ban the use of aversive therapies for any student who was not already receiving aversive therapies by order of the Probate and Family Court. As a result, no new behavioral plans with aversive therapies have been put into place since September.'

"In other words, any student who enrolled at Judge Rotenberg Center after September 2011 cannot be shocked under the new state guidelines. Students who were enrolled before then can still be shocked."

In the meanwhile, Blenkush speaks of antipsychotics as dangerous and ineffective, but what ABA does not do is to ask their victims which they would rather receive, "aversion therapy" or medication. As it applies to my life, I've completely debunked the myth that antipsychotics are a terrible way to live. They're not. They are my savior. And the side effects are no big deal to me whatsoever. I've taken them voluntarily and happily since 2007.

[See also Altieri (May 1, 2015). My one day of electric skin shock was worse than 36 years of antipsychotics.

ABAI has yet to officially respond in a public manner, in a specific way, to any of these posts. They seem to want to ignore us or disregard our work until we publish in academic journals, which we find unnecessary. We have another name for "peer review." We call it "peer pressure." We don't care to go that route. Fearless, independent pinpointed investigative journalism Google Blogger suits our purpose perfectly well. Google backs us up. We buy their ads, too. With their support, we have had 259,721 total pageviews since 2007. Can their flagship Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis boast so many since 2007? We doubt it. We asked a JABA editor what standards they use to judge behavior as "problems of social importance" worthy of their decelerating rates. He had no clear answer. But we know what it is, mainly. It's popular-norm-of-the-day. Once it's "deviant homosexuals in need of a cure" and now it's "deviant autistics" in need of a cure. They are both equivalents, and ABA has not yet even given up completely on their futile mission to take the gay out of the gays. And so it goes. They cannot take the autism out of the autistics, either. They can only make them pass as more or less typical, just as gays can pass in an apparent heterosexual marriage, under Christian-led ABA domination and control, also equally as "Gay and Autistic Conversion Therapies."

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And why does the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) allow Josh Pritchard and Jessica Frieder, of Autism Speaks, to keep their BCBA titles while sitting on the JRC Board of Directors? BACB also certificates work in staff, Blenkush, BCBA, for example.

JRC constantly advertises for BCBA help wanted with salaries going as high as $95,000.

And those BCBAs who get on the high horse and say, "Oh no! Not me! I don't shock!" They are complicit to torture unless they publish a statement against it.

The only reason why it's only allowed in one state is the advocates have stopped it dead in its tracks. Over 50,000 have signed our still active petition to the FDA to finish its ban on ABA electroshock torture. Gregory Miller, former JRC assistant teacher turned whistleblower and TV personality, published a circa 2014 petition to the FDA that "had 197,285 supporters." We're going to win this, sooner or later, by one avenue or another. Love and Truth and always defeat Abuse and Obfuscation in the end. It takes time, however, unfortunately.

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Anyhow, JRC uses its own victims in their promotional marketing materials. Did they truly consent? We'll be asking them to report to us when they are free. We already have an escape from JRC self-report by Anna Kosovskaya. We have another JRC survivor interview report coming up in the near future, only at ABA Leaks this time again. And another one later, probably. We welcome more whistleblower reports from any ABA institution by victims, parents, or professionals.

See the works by Kipling Oren. He specifically challenges the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) who apparently gave just a slap on the wrist to a Texan ABA leader who lied about her credentials, he reported. She also abused his young boy, he reported. BACB has blocked my @RewardConsent on Twitter. We have attempted to reach them to ask why, but they have not replied.

ABAers might call BACB's verbal behavior here their attempt at "to extinguish of our verbal behavior," to make it go away. We wish to inform us that this strategy always fails with as massive a network as ABA. We know they read Reward and Consent blog more than any other category of our followers. We do not know exactly who is reading our work, but when we posted to their Facebook groups, before they banned us from them, too, we saw immediate surges in our Google Blogger stats. On the contrary, when they ignore us as we reach out to them to try to settle our differences, we judge them as engaging in "rude and unconscionably unethical behavior" whenever they cannot reply to such matters of grave concern to autistic people all over the world.

See Altieri (December 9, 2017). Mr. Kipling Oren, our newest ABA Leaks independent investigator-led us to report: Is ABA a profession or not? There have been allegations of fraud and abuse against Kelle Wood Rich, BCBA, CEO of the Central Texas Autism Center, yet the BACB still lets her practice.

See also Kosovskaya and Altieri (June 11, 2015). She's from Russia with love. Anna Kosovskaya, an actual autistic hero, escapes the Canton, Massachusetts Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis electric skin shock torture. Here are her self-reported adventures and her interviewer's analysis.

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ABA Leaks has our own dual-parent AND -child consent Cognitive Behavioral Teaching method in Reward and Consent blog which directly opposes the ABA set of coercion and control true behavioral science models. This pseudoscientific system won't even discuss the PTSD trauma self-reports which they provoke in us. No scientific system always only paints a rosy picture of itself and refuses to do some intellectually honest peer review in their academic journals concerning what their actual victims have to say about what they do to them.

Start with this post and follow the links therein. Altieri (April 23, 2016). Here's Reward and Consent's amended Serenity Prayer.

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Denouement. ABA aims to control the world.

ABA sets out for distant shores while headquartered at the B. F. Skinner Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the USA under the leadership of the one daughter he did not raise as a "Baby in a Box," who was his oldest child of two, Julie Vargas, apparent heiress to the powerhouse fortune and all-out propaganda machine.

ABA leaves no land unscathed, from Africa to Mississippi, from Putin's and ABAs Pavlov Dog Russia to the tropical Philippines, across Australia, throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America. This industry uses an uncanny, yet parasitic business model, namely to panic the parents of freshly diagnosed autistic children as young as age one with autism horror stories that supposedly they are most qualified to "scientifically and effectively treat for their benefit" (by any means necessary whether or not they like what we do to them.) In fact, ABA says it's "our right" to have them treat us in such a manner. See Appendix II below. "ABA sales pitch. The horrors of autism we can solve. So you better hire me, or else, (the state could take your child from you.)"

So ABA denies the existence of any free will of humanity to autonomously choose our own actions solely as a result of the process of mind (as in Cooper, Heward, and Heron, 2007, p. 5. Determinism) "Scientists presume that the universe, or at least that part of it they intend to probe with the methods of science, is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events," which international ABA disseminator Amanda N. Kelly quoted from the book authors on her website,

She is a relative newcomer, or even perhaps an outsider to Hawaiians, who lobbies their representatives for pro-ABA legislation. ABA Hawaii actually filed a "class-action suit (accusing) the state of denying (ABA) treatments for autism." In the meanwhile, she encourages other ABAers to move to Hawaii and experience their most incredibly beautiful "climate reinforcements."

ABA uses classical Pavlovian conditioning, pairing themselves with "edibles," in one report, Amanda Kelly (2015, p. 137), to actually condition people like her to become the reinforcing stimuli before the coerced behavior modification interventions commence. He cut holes in restrained dog's cheeks to collect and measure their saliva as he presented meat with a bell, as they salivated, removed the meat and rang the bell, and a miracle, he conditioned the dog to salivate to the bell. In the meanwhile, he salivated to his dog handlers, who then quit. Then HE salivated to the sight of his salivating dogs. Ha ha.

ABA thrives on power and control and it has skills to acquire them without limit until the emancipated autistic and otherwise disabled adult (ADAPT) CounterControllers of the Neurodiversity Movement arrive on the scene.

ABA truly fantasizes about, plots, and has actually built an ominous movement to solve all the world's problems, allegedly, in a B. F. Skinnerian Utopian Republic with them running their oligopoly dictatorship as they, supposedly, the only ones capable to "effectively" plan the "Scientific Design of Culture." The problem, though, is that ABA denies the existence of freedom and they seek to control all "relevant variables" that "control problems of social importance" WITHOUT the consent of the governed or of their manipulated recipients of their coercions, "aversion therapy," intensive obedience training drills, and forced normalities. ABA started Gay Conversion Therapy and keeps it alive. ABA is nothing more than Autism Conversion Therapy and true autism identify camouflaging to our peers all across the planet. In the meanwhile, they assume there is no such thing as freedom (BACB 4th Ed. Task List FK-03 Determinism), which is merely a belief they falsely claim to know as dogmatic truth, because Skinner said so. This follows atheist B. F. Skinner's (1974) bestselling book that claimed we should move beyond the democratic notions of freedom and dignity.

Also read about an upcoming ABAI 2018 San Diego poster presentation by JRC staff here.

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Appendix I

ABA Leaks Exclusive Report

A Tale of Two Skin Shockers: "Old Dick Malott, BCBA," vs. "New Dick Malott, non-BCBA," so it seems. What happened to the credential?

Dick Malott, former BCBA, apparently

On a related note, see also Altieri (February 28, 2018). Non-vocal of speech, actually-autistic blogger Amy Sequenzia (April 12, 2016) proposed to our peer group "every time we talk about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), we also say Autistic Conversion Therapy. Gay Conversion Therapy has a bad reputation. Both 'treatments' (tortures) have the same root." See also Altieri (April 17, 2017). ABA Leaks concludes that a direct cause of the "shock treatment" in Chechnya's gay concentration camps is the pseudoscience cult called ABA. And see Altieri (March 18, 2017). ABA did it to gays. They still do it to autistics. We call it false behavioral conversion therapy. It causes us Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), indisputably.

Dick Malott is Maria Malott's ex-husband, according to a phone call between Dusty Jones, BCBA, (circa 2014), and ABA Leaks founder Dave Altieri, Master of Arts in Teaching. If Jones is right, then to what extent is ABA nepotism? He sits on JRC's Board of Directors now, apparently without a BCBA credential. In his "Old Dick Malott" website, he had been a BCBA, but not anymore, apparently, if JRC's website is accurate. How did that happen? He's a well-published, highly cited, popular professor from Western Michigan University. The next part of his biography surprised us. How could he speak and broadcast over the internet such inappropriate behavior for a college professor? His behavior analysis of human sexuality requires a trigger alert for our sensitive blog readers. Then we proceed to publish our incomplete transcript of the video in question which we have on file. And the joke goes like this. "Who shocked whom first to set the Malott divorce wheels in a spin?"

We have no idea if his classroom Vimeo "boob" lecture taken down has anything to do with his BCBA paper. But it makes one wonder more about what could have happened. Right?

Trigger alert. Skip reading these block quotes if necessary. His language in the video transcript severely objectifies women in a sexual manner as he frequently says, "Boobs." The entire video takes about 16 minutes. Eventually, we'll transcribe and publish it all at a blog in text format, barring legal advice to the contrary, but we won't release the video to the public. Thankfully, it has been removed from Vimeo, though we know not why.

DickMalott.com (July 16, 2010). Notes From A Radical Behaviorist: Boobs Blog Part I.

Today I'd like to de the Boob Blog Part One. Boobs are eyeball magnets for men's eyeballs, ALL MEN [caps added. DA], your grandfather, (women laugh) your Daddy, your brother, and your sons to be. And as anyone who denies it lying. So you probably don't want to ask your grandfather. You probably don't want to put him in that situation of having to be a liar. Does size matter? Yes, but what's impressive not as much, I mean, as you might think. She could be like an anemic 12-year-old boy scout (man laughs), and dressed in a coat and the eyeball magnetism (Dick makes a hiss or whistle sound) and what's interesting is, well there's several things that's interesting about this, is that men will kind of go out of their way. You know you're in the library, you walk down an aisle, oops, "there's some boobs," you get oop; you walk down two or three more times, cause there's some boobs.

So I'm. And again, this is universal and I'm really impressed with the extent to which the site, brief, brief sight of clothed boobs, teeny tiny boobs, is a powerful reinforcer in the sense that it will control a lot of kind of minimal male behavior. I mean the male is not going to pay you know twenty dollars to see some boobs going down the street in a coat. Maybe naked. (Uncomfortable classroom laughs, it seems now). But the just kind of and you know and they practice of course covert glancing and they try not to be too overt.

And in terms of boobs versus butts, boobs win every time. Uhh. And it's not that butts may not you know visual, you know, certainly, legs way down the hierarchy.

But what fascinates me even more is this not only applies to Grandpa and Daddy and your brother. It applies to your little prepubescent brother. I don't know. They still do have National Geographic Magazine. Uhh. Do they do boob shots every 100, or every excuse me, or every 330 pages of the lovely native maiden international habitat? (Man vocalizes.) No.

No one can say. I remember as a, you know, 4th grade looking through my Aunt Pearl's National Geographics desperately searching for a boob shot, pre pre pubescent. And again I share this with you knowing that I'm representative. Some nods from (camera spans the students) the male students in the class. These particular male students, however, I'm not, you know I could say all sorts of things and they would ... (voluminous man's laughter drown's Malott's voice here), that's. I won't take that as a necessarily representative sample of males.

The question is: Why? Why are boobs such a powerful visual reinforcer?

And, again, when I say "powerful," you know, versus a ahh a fudge sundae, no. Probably not, on a VI Schedule* for boobs versus fudge sundae. Fudge sundae is gonna, if it's got enough whip cream, it's gonna certainly win. But it's that kind of, kind of, always working, you walk, you walk up and down the aisle a couple times for a boob shot.

Why? Why is it such a powerful reinforcer?

Yes. (He calls on young man and camera turns to him as he says:) "Because you're not supposed to be like seeing it, like I feel like if the Middle Eastern guys would be like looking through a magazine, they'd be like, 'Oh my God. Look at that girl's upper lip. It's so hot,' because you know they're looking at the full face veils. They're not supposed to see it. So like that's their porno. "Look at that girl's shoulder, man. That's so hot."

Malott replies: Yeah, I think. I think that there's a lot to that. Uhh. The best reinforcer is the forbidden reinforcer. If Mommy says, "Hey, I don't want you to eat that." You know damn well that's gonna be—(man laughs and drowns Dick's voice here). Umm. Umm. I suspect that's not the whole story. I think that that could be a chunk. Uhh. Yeah. Does somebody else have something? Yeah.

(Camera spans across about five tables gathered together in the center of plain white walled classroom with about 10 students, mostly young ladies, sitting somewhat immobile and expressionless except for one young lady who says:)

[End transcript. It's incomplete, for now.]

*[A VI Schedule signifies Variable Intervals of time across a schedule of reinforcers. So, for example, within a varying range of time spans, perhaps averaging once every four hours while awake, a meal reinforces (strengthens) the "responses we emit" just before we eat so that the likelihood we repeat that kind of behavior before meals probably increase over time. Skinner showed this with rats in his Skinner Boxes. Note. They were underfed. He needed the Establishing Operation of Food Deprivation. Otherwise, if in Satiation, food has no reinforcer value. This is why we believe ABA uses food with hungry children, or else they use diabetic, addictive, obesity sugary morsels at each intensive trial during obedience training drills, assuming sugar reinforces well-fed children and not just the underfed as "treated" between meals. DA]

This probably offends many women and it offends me. He claimed "all men" look with interest at breasts. I am 100% gay. Dick is completely wrong about us. I am not interested in breasts. I never was. A single exception contradicts a universal assertion in Aristotle's logic. Of course, I'm not the only one. [DA]

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This Reward and Consent blog author is yours truly, Dave Altieri, another Georgetown University alum autistic Hoya. Lydia X. Z. Brown is the original and well-deserved owner of the title "Autistic Hoya." Brown, law student last we checked, is a brilliant essayist who first introduced me to the Neurodiversity Movement as I stumble clicked into her work about five years ago.

Moreover, even Lydia recognizes that we all stand tall on the shoulders of the giant and foremost authority on Behavioral Ethics, autistic researcher and cognitive scientist, Michelle Dawson (2004) who penned "The Misbehaviour of Behaviourists." She also testified against national ABA insurance coverage in front of Canada's Supreme Court.

See Dawson (2005). An autistic victory. The true meaning of the Auton Decision.

We can also turn the clock off ABA insurance coverage in the USA. It now covers federal agencies and, by now, probably all 50 states. Have heart. We shall overcome in due time, though probably not in my lifetime. I'm 58 and health. Happily, I feel victim to a vast international panoply of chubby chasing admirers. Our ABA Leaks team firmly believes that, not only does Love win in the end over Spite and Coercion, so does Truth over Obfuscation, always, inevitably, after the struggle subsides and we make peace with our former bullies.

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Appendix Two. ABA's slick scare-tactic marketing schemes.

This is common. AppliedBehaviorAnalysisEdu.org (downloaded April 14, 2018) implies it can solve all theses problems. We interpret a subtle threat to parents, namely, without coming out and saying it, they could be saying, indirectly, "Hire us, or else, you lose your children to the state authorities."

Death by drowning,
Provide barricades needed to prevent wandering into the hands of abductors,
Restrict "access to faucets with hot water, fountains, drainage ditches, livestock watering tubs, or bathtubs. Something that may seem harmless – like a kitchen faucet – could prove to be a source of burns for your child,"
ABA comes to the rescue to stop "disturbing, self-destructive behaviors like head-banging or biting and scratching themselves,"
ABA "tried and tested techniques" can solve issues that occur when the deviant autistic causes a sibling "neurotypical child ... stomping and screaming,"
It can sufficiently restrict a curious child from "elopement," which "has led to many deaths in the autism community." "A twelve-year-old boy with autism in Orange County, California wandered from his home and was struck and killed by a truck. Another by a "train." ABA will teach parents to use "double-keyed deadbolt on access doors" for "wandering adolescents," (We call it taking a walk.)
Without us, you will live a lifetime of "violent outbursts."
They said, "Research has found that they are less capable of determining whether a person can be trusted or not based on evaluating facial expressions. The ability to read a person’s intentions by looking at their face is a kind of intuitive judgment that is intrinsic to neurotypical children, but without it, kids on the spectrum are often incapable of determining whether or not a person they meet intends them harm. Of course, the person at the door is likely just a neighbor saying hello, but that’s not a risk you want to take."
In other words, what this could very well signify is ABA's threat to the panicky parents of our very young autistic peers upon early diagnosis. "Hire me to intervene, or else a child molester can attack him. There is no telling who can report you for neglect. The state could enter your home and remove your child from your custody, " as this feels as though this is their not-so-subtle implied message.

Autistics speak. We say:

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"Red Instead" of "Light It Up Blue."

Boycott Autism Speaks. They don't even listen to us, let alone speak for us. Donate to groups which we own and operate. The only way you can take a job that helps us is to work for organizations which WE control, not the other way around.

"Autism Awareness" is a cognition that doesn't do anything. We demand "Autism Acceptance" and we're gaining it, slowly but surely. Now we want "Autism Appreciation."

We insist on "no Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), because ABA is abuse." We require true supports, not forced normality and obedience training drills by all manner of ABA reinforcer controls, cruel and unusual "shock and aversion therapies," and artificial praise paired with diabetic and obesity sugary treats under food deprivations.

We're not "people with autism." We're "autistic people." We don't "HAVE autism." We "ARE autistics."

Autism is not a disease or a family burden. We simply have a different operating system which gives us many amazing superpowers and some challenges which strengthen us. Among these are ultra-strong sensitivity and empathy. So our Emotional IQs (EIQs) are vastly superior to all parents and "professionals" who rule by force. Their EIQs are profoundly slow, in fact.

We run the computer industry.

Different is better. Normal is boring. We forgive neurotypicals for their dull existences. Trash the norms. Get over it if you don't like it. Our blunt speech is better. Subtle speech doesn't work well anyway.

Have a nice day! Ha ha.

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See also:

Altieri (May 1, 2017). A Clockwork Orange in Denver. Association for Behavior Analysis International ABA) convention "approves" Canton, Massachusetts' high voltage ABA skin "shock therapy" after autistic advocates told them year after year to stop "approving" this torture. Is all ABA Empathy Disabled (ED)?

Altieri (February 16, 2017). ABA Leaks finds the seventh death with Canton, Massachusetts Rotenberg school of high-voltage ABA electric skin shock torture was an unborn baby of a seventeen-year-old girl, according to the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission. Yet we have many Christian ABAers.

Non-vocal of speech, actually-autistic blogger Amy Sequenzia (April 12, 2016) proposed to our peer group "every time we talk about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), we also say Autistic Conversion Therapy. Gay Conversion Therapy has a bad reputation. Both 'treatments' (tortures) have the same root."

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See also the following posts:

Altieri (November 25, 2017). CNN Anderson Cooper report: Kirk Murphy, the survivor of ABA's UCLA's "Sissy Boy Experiment," took his own life as a young gay man.

According to Cooper, his real name was Kirk Andrew Murphy. Rekers and Lovaas (1974) called him Kraig to conceal his identity in "Behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child," Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 173-190, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. They later said he had a "Sissy Boy Syndrome."

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Altieri (April 15, 2017). As unbelievable as it sounds, ABA Leaks concludes, beyond a reasonable doubt, that ABA is a direct cause of skin shock "treatment" on gay victims of in Russian concentration camps, which the world hasn't seen since Hitler's neurotypical-white-supremacy, Nazis rounded, imprisoned, tortured, sterilized, and annihilated 6,000,000 gays, autistics, gypsies, disabled human beings, and especially Jews.

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Altieri (March 18, 2017). ABA did it to gays. They still do it to autistics. We call it false behavioral conversion therapy. It causes us Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), indisputably.

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis trained for behavioral compliance under cramped MRI space, yet it did not stress the accommodation for children's disabilities by advocating for extra-large MRIs under claustrophobic conditions.

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Cox et al., (October 14, 2016) wrote a paper in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) "establishing motion control in children with autism and intellectual disability: Applications for anatomical and functional MRI." The authors said (previewed page), "Unlike other common medical procedures, MRI scans require the patient to remain still within a limited space during relatively long periods of time, making this procedure particularly challenging in the absence of total sedation."

Does JABA not recognize that there are extra-large MRI machines?

Why don't they simply advocate for their use rather than putting an autistic or a disabled child through a behavioral ordeal? Then let the technician handle it from there. They won't be so manipulative and demanding. The Americans with Disabilities Act would require them to especially accommodate for their disabilities if these children became too claustrophobic. But the Behavior Analyst Certification Board requires no college or university Disability Studies coursework of its Board Certified Behavior Analysts.

Why not? If they did, they would get an earful from their actually autistic professors lambasting them for their dependence on "aversives," as well as for their coercions under ABA's popular-norm-of-the-day standard using its by-any-means-necessary standard under which they claim to be so "effective."

About a month ago I posed this question to them in JABA's Facebook page. I updated the comment today.

What was their response? It was typical of them. They totally ignored the question. Well they pretended to ignore it. But we know they read it. They are the folks who read this blog the most. We already know that. This is what they usually attempt to do as they try and fail to silence their critics. They call it "extinction of verbal behavior" in hopes we'll just fade away, for our voices to disappear into oblivion. But this ain't going to happen. The CounterConrol Movement is gaining steam. Lol.

By the way, ABAers, when you're reading this, we want to help you. The general public considers it to be very rude if someone asks you a question and then you ignore them. Just so you know how to behave the next time someobody "inferior" tries to communicate with you.

Noam Chomsky (2017) said, "Behaviorism can't die. It doesn't matter how often it's refuted and how fully it's refuted, it comes right back to life."

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Chomsky (March 27, 2017). Noam Chomsky on Behaviorism.

"Behaviorism can't die. It doesn't matter how often it's refuted and how fully it's refuted, it comes right back to life.... Back around the early 60's, Skinner's two main students (the Brelands)...discovered that when they were training an animal, they got the expected results, up to a certain point. Then the results started to deteriorate."

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Breland and Breland (1961). The misbehavior of organisms.

"In our attempt to extend a behavioristically oriented approach to the engineering control of animal behavior by operant condi- tioning techniques, we have fought a running battle1with the seditious notion of instinct (p. 681).... The examples listed we feel represent a clear and utter failure of conditioning theory (p. 683)."

ABA Leaks finds that while B. F. Skinner (1958) led behavioral psychology, his followers tortured, maimed, and killed eight rhesus monkeys.

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This most powerful editor of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) journals undoubtedly approved the experiment.

This example of abusive and deadly behavioral psychology comes from the very beginning of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB), which was the precursor periodical to their human behavioral control Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA), both of which the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior still publishes, and which B. F. Skinner led, at first.

They took eight rhesus monkeys, restrained them, yoked them at the neck, and delivered painful currents of electric shock to their feet, which they could temporarily avoid by pulling on a lever to delay the punishment. They ran their experiment all day long for up to seven weeks at four alternating, six-hour-long, condition-on vs. condition-off intervals per day.

These primate cousins to homo sapiens developed ulcers and died, or as they put it, they "expired," or they were "sacrificed." After the first monkey died, they continued running the experiment, killing one animal after another, all for the "noble aim" of "accomplishing effective, scientific behavior modification" on very young autistic children, which is the population they primarily target in their marketing campaigns and media "dissemination groups." We see in this picture that the foundational roots of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) guidance was then (and still remains) nothing more than the highly immoral by-any-means-necessary approach to problem-solving, which has always been the philosophy of torture and murder throughout the world, for human and non-human victims alike, as caused and provoked by behaviorists or otherwise.

Bradly et al. (January 1958). Avoidance behavior and the development of gastroduodenal ulcers.

The present report describes the results of an experiment designed to define some of the more specific behavioral factors contributing to the etiology of this lethal pathological picture. Eight rhesus monkeys, restrained in chairs, as illustrated in Fig. 1, were divided into pairs and conditioned according to a "yoked-chair" avoidance procedure. Each pair of monkeys received brief electric shocks (5 milli-amperes, 60-cycle AC, for 0.5 seconds) to the feet from a common source every 20 seconds unless the experimental animal of the pair pressed a lever which delayed the shock another 20 seconds for both animals. Inactivation of the lever available to the control animal insured an equal number and temporal distribution of shocks to both monkeys ("physical trauma") while providing the avoidance contingency for only the experimental animal. Each pair of monkeys received 6-hour sessions on this procedure, alternating with 6-hour "off-periods" (no shocks) 24 hours each day for periods up to 6 or 7 weeks. A red light was illuminated in plain view of both animals during the 6-hour "avoidance" periods and was turned out during the 6-hour off periods. The experimental procedure was programmed and the animals' behavior recorded automatically by timers, magnetic counters, cumulative work recorders, and associated relay circuits. Lever responses and shocks were recorded continuously for all animals, and separate counts were maintained for the avoidance periods and for the off-periods. Throughout the entire experiment, urine was collected continuously from all animals in 24- or 48-hour samples for 17-hydroxycorticosteroid determinations.

With the first pair of monkeys, the death of the avoidance animal after 23 days terminated the experiment during one of the 6-hour avoidance periods. With the second pair, the avoidance monkey again expired during one of the 6-hour "on-periods," this time 25 days after the start of the experiment. With the third pair in this series, the death of the experimental animal again terminated the experiment during one of the avoidance cycles, this time only 9 days after initiation of the alternating 6-hour on-off procedure. And the experimental animal of the fourth pair of monkeys was sacrificed in a moribund condition after 48 days on the avoidance procedure. In all instances, gross and microscopic analysis revealed the presence of extensive gastrointestinal lesions with ulceration as a prominent feature of the pathological picture in the experimental animals. However, none of the control animals sacrificed for comparison with their experimental partners and subjected to complete post-mortem examination, showed any indications of such gastrointestinal complications.

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That Skinner opposed punishment is only a myth and a false one at that. As it turns out, he only opposed punishment for so-called "normally-behaving, non-deviant" people.

In January 1958, B. F. Skinner was a founding member of the Board of Editors of JEAB when his team did this to their captured lab animals.

He sat at the helm while ABA tortured and abused whom they called a "sissy" boy, who eventually committed suicide.

He (1968) led ABA and sat on its editorial board when JABA 1(1) (Risley, 1968) skin shocked a young "deviant" autistic girl for climbing on their precious family furniture. They did not take her to a gym or bolt the bookshelf to the wall or install a set of "monkey bars" in the yard. She could have been an Olympic gymnast, given the not-uncommon autistic genius at narrowly-focused and highly-specified excellence and phenomenal skill at that. Instead, they shocked this climber "for her own benefit" so she wouldn't fall down and hurt herself, supposedly. This is their way. So she won't hurt herself, ABA will torture and abuse her and take away any sense of self-determination she had possessed free climbing, nimbly, no doubt. That is not very smart. Here is the logic. She might hurt herself. So before she does, if she does, which we don't know for if she will, we will hurt her instead of letting her hurt herself, if that should ever happen to this highly-skilled climber.

In the Boston Globe, he (1985) actually praised his Harvard University pupil Matthew Israel, the founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center of high-voltage ABA skin shock, which the U.N. calls an institution of "torture." See Méndez (2013, p. 85).

Today, the Fourth Edition Task List of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) contains exactly ten "punishment" skills and concepts that every Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) must master to receive and maintain their credentials. This is what they proudly call their "aversion therapy." An oxymoron is a contradiction of terms. The burden rests on ABA to explain how an aversion therapist is someone whom we all simply want to go away and to leave us alone. Since when is torture a therapy? ABA is clearly nowhere near as positive as it usually claims it is.

We are ABA Leaks of Facebook. We are the team of actually autistic and other kinds of investigative journalists who first exposed this Skinnerian myth of non-punishment as a mass-scale ABA falsehood. For many years he even fooled me, Dave Altieri of Facebook. I took his word at face value in blog herein since 2007 when I first read him proclaim to the world in Science and Human Behavior that "in the long run, punishment, unlike reinforcement, works to the disadvantage of both the punished organism and the punishing agency" (Skinner, 2014/1953, p. 183). It was only recently that our top-notch disabled Rutgers University librarian retrieved for us the Boston Globe article of Skinner praising Israel. It's only on our public link at our Google Drive that you can find this article freely on the internet.

But yes! He was right, indeed! Punishment is addictive, yet, as he showed. Though he fell prey to the very same force he warned us about. I do it, too, at times, and I regret it so much afterward, except for our argument of non-submission to bullies is a contingency under which we promote, but only when ethical, legal, safe, and fully-supported when challenging them. We hold no compunctions in the stopping of bullies behaviorally, especially when the bullies are adults and behaviorists. Therefore, we can only conclude now that even B. F. Skinner is no Skinnerian when it comes to following his own doctrines. We have just documented this line of thought, clearly, and indisputably. We welcome dialogue with ABAers on this one. Let's see if they bite.

Well, now we have another announcement to make. It seems highly probable that Skinner himself was an autistic man, which is a major, major atheistic sin for anyone to announce under any misjudgment, popular-norm-of-the-day, submission-and-obedience-training-into-forced-normality ABA standards. To know an autistic savant genius is to draw a striking resemblance to this intense tinkerer, their guru inventor, that highly-organized and well-driven-and-focused laboratory experimenter. Isn't that queer?

Anyhow, getting back to his group, ABAers are Empathy Disabled and low of Emotional IQ (EIQ). His sheeple cult members are in no position to call us inferior while they possess another of their diagnosable malodies, the ABA Superiority Complex.

They are simply our equals. We are disabled and so are they. So we love them as such, even though they don't yet want to be our friends. Oh well. We intend to bring them out of their bullying misery. That is how we show them our love. In the end, they thank us, and unblock us, and so on and so forth. We mean them no ill will. But, sadly they must feel this compulsion to manipulate and control bodies and lives that are not theirs.

They follow a cult, which is actually a system of pseudoscience that merely masquerades as real science. It punishes its own dissidents, some whom we know, and it does all it can to silence and suppress the voice of its opponents speaking. But alas, no scientific system always only paints a rosy picture of itself. Some day, we hope, they'll look at ALL the "data," including the reams of data we have accumulated about their "socially important" problem behaviors. They will not even talk to us or any other of their opponents about the PTSD traumas they cause us. They actually dismiss bona fide research methodology, anecdotal self-report evidence. Unilaterally they will often deem it to be "unscientific."

And in the meanwhile, we see them as divorcing and statistically high of alcoholic behavior in their social media profile images, as they misjudge us and point their accusatory finger of behavioral disapproval at anyone else but them and their kind, as they profit magnificently all over the world off of our parents who fall for their misrepresentations of our behaviors, whom they love to put in a panic over new diagnoses. Hire me, or else he'll "elope" (to a child molester. That way you can keep your children, or else somebody will report you to the authorities for your neglect of their "Right to Effective Behavioral Treatment," whether they like it or not, which is our argument in support of skin shock and all other manners of aversion therapy, which is our ultimate method of control.)

But there are good ways to help autistic children with no ABA coercions. Only we proudly-identified "autistics" can lead parents away from their attachment to ABA control and environmental dominance over defenseless little children. Ask an actually autistic adult or even a teenager, parents. We usually don't ask for a penny to give you advice. Only we know the sheer beauty of the autistic mind. We're here to help our very young autistic peers, the primary victims of the ABA industry's massive fraud upon USA taxpayers and the resistant insurance industry, as we see it, and as we continue to expose it. ABA does ABA, not only on little children, but also on the most powerful institutions of the land, on government and big monied interests, from tropical Hawaii to the vast frozen tundra of Alaska, on past Michigan and down to sunny Florida, and back up again to the Wiccan witch zone of Cambridge, Canton, and Salem Massachusetts.

Alas, we don't just knock them down, however. In the meanwhile, we also offer up, free for the plucking, our codified "Reward and Consent," dual parent and child consent, Cognitive Behavioral Teaching method in blog, complete with Amended Serenity Prayer. We hope you enjoy your reading, friends.

Dave

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Skinner (1945) raised his baby daughter Debbie in a box, as seen in the Ladies Home Journal.

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See also Altieri (February 16, 2017). The seventh death with Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center of high-voltage ABA skin shock torture was an unborn baby of a seventeen-year-old girl, according to the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission.

And see Altieri (May 1, 2017). A Clockwork Orange in Denver. International Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) convention "approves" Canton, Massachusetts' high-voltage skin "shock therapy" after autistic advocates have told them year after year to stop "approving" this torture. Is all ABA Empathy Disabled?

And for the worst of their worst, what they all allow to continue still in their name, see Vogell and Waldman (December 23, 2014). New York City sends $30 million a year to (ABA) school with a history of giving kids electric shocks. New York City kids make up the vast majority of the students at Massachusetts’ infamous Judge Rotenberg Center and keep getting sent there despite repeated evidence of abuse.

Mr. Kip Oren, newest ABA Leaks investigator, asked if Applied Behavior Analysis is, indeed, a profession. There have been allegations of fraud and abuse against Kelle Wood Rich, CEO of the Central Texas Autism Center, yet the Behavior Analyst Certification Board still lets her practice.

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Kelle (Wood) Rich, M.Ed., BCBA, Founder/CEO, Central Texas Autism Center

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If you are unfamiliar with how Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) works, please see Altieri (November 24, 2016). An actual autistic man defines and explains ABA.

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When people such as the courageous, frustrated father speaking in the videos seen below compare us to cancer, we autistic people take offense. Different is great. Autism is beautiful. Progress is not possible without people like us. Conformity is boring and unproductive. We do not need a cure. We simply have a different operating system. We run the computer industry. We are poised to revolutionize global communication by virtue of our blunt, direct speech.

However, take note of Mr. Kipling Oren, who recorded the following phone "call with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) legal team about the "fraud and abuse" of Kelle Wood Rich, BCBA.

Oren provides YouTube with evidence that she had previously made the false claim that she has held a Ph.D. Doctorate degree in her public LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, however, ABA Leaks sees that today, December 9, 2017, Rich no longer says on her LinkedIn page that she has a Ph.D. Our search with the University of Texas Registrar does not retrieve her name as having any kind of degree from there. Her LinkedIn just says she had "post-Masters degree coursework" there. In addition, Rice (August 10, 2016) reported that Texas Child Protective Services were also investigating Ms. Rich for making repeating demands of Oren's son while he was upset, and then she used multiple adults to pin him down to the floor and restrain him.

So we at ABA Leaks join Oren who is asking: If these allegations of fraud and abuse are true, then why does the BACB allow her to practice as a BCBA today? Where are the ABA standards? Is ABA a profession or not?

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Oren (May 15, 2017a) wrote on his YouTube channel:

My frustrating call with the BACB's legal team. BACB is actively involved in covering up BCBA Kelle Wood Rich's ... abuse and fraud. Kelle Wood Rich is the owner and president of the Central Texas Autism Center.

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Oren (May 15, 2017b) said,

Ms. Rich's history includes multiple abuse and fraud claims. Ms. Rich has been caught faking a Ph.D. from the University of Texas for 12 years. This video demonstrates Ms. Rich's academic fraud. To date, Dr. James Carr, BCBA-D, CEO of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, has refused to take action against Ms. Rich.

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See also Rice (August 10, 2016). Child Protective Services investigates alleged abuse at Lake Pointe Elementary School in Texas.

The investigation took place in response to a complaint filed by parent Kipling Oren, who says the school district violated a 7-year-old student’s behavioral intervention plan when Rich repeatedly asked the student to write his name on a piece of paper while the student began to have a meltdown. The student, who has been identified by his father as falling somewhere on the autism spectrum and suffers from epileptic seizures, has “cool down” methods described in his behavioral intervention plan, such as moving him to a “safe spot” away from classmates, according to the complaint. Oren says that since the incident took place, the student has suffered more and longer seizures due to the amount of stress the student suffered on March 12, 2015. “Ms. Rich continued to repeat the same demand while (the student) became a serious threat of harm to self,” Oren’s updated complaint filed with the TEA reads. “Ms. Rich continued to repeat the same demand while she utilized multiple adults to pinion (the student) to the floor and physically restrain him.”

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Oren (January 16, 2017) said:

I produced this video as part of a complaint that I filed with the BACB. Kelle Wood Rich is a "behavior analyst" with a history of child-abuse claims, one of which settled with a large payment to the victim (a 10-year-old special-needs child). Ms. Rich holds no health care license issued by the state, and is not supervised by anyone who holds a healthcare license. Ms. Rich owns the Central Texas Autism Center (CTAC) in Austin, Texas. This video demonstrates that Ms. Rich has falsified her academic credentials in a flagrant manner for over a decade. After having been caught, Ms. Rich revised her public profiles and no longer claims to have obtained a Ph.D. Ms. Rich continues to operate in the public schools despite her past bad acts. To date, Dr. James Carr, BCBA-D, CEO of the BACB, has refused to take action against Ms. Rich.

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Oren (May 19, 2017) said, "Are you considering using the Central Texas Autism Center? Beware!"

If you are considering utilizing the services of the Central Texas Autism Center for your special-needs child, do your due diligence. I would suggest that you ask Kelle Wood Rich [CEO and Owner of CTAC] to provide you a copy of the First Amended Complaint in the case, P.R. v. Central Texas Autism Center [Case No. D-1GN-08-003644, Travis County, Texas]. This was an abuse and fraud claim brought against the Central Texas Autism Center. [It settled with a large payment to the 8-year-old victim.] I would also suggest that you ask Ms. Rich to provide to you a copy of her Ph.D. [degree] from the University of Texas. Until recently, in an effort to solicit business, Ms. Rich represented to the world that she had obtained a Ph.D. from UT. Mysteriously, she has taken this claim down, after having been hit with two separate complaints issued to the BACB, the certifying body that oversees her BCBA status. I would also suggest that you look at other videos associated with my name. Good luck. And God bless you.

Altieri (first published April 29, 2017). ABA has a Terrible Timeline it will never publish. This report includes the works of the CounterControllers to the ABA Controllers.

Altieri (May 1, 2017). A Clockwork Orange in Denver. Association for Behavior Analysis International convention "approves" high-voltage Massachusetts "shock therapy" after autistic advocates told them year after year to stop "approving" this torture. Is all ABA Empathy Disabled?

ABA Leaks finds the "most positive" thing that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has to offer is artificial praise ("conditioned praise") paired with doggie treat bribes ("food reinforcement") after the controllers have starved ("effectively deprived of food") actually-autistic 18-month-old toddlers.

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The "most positive" thing that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has to offer is artificial praise ("conditioned praise") paired with doggie treat bribes ("food reinforcement") after the Controllers have starved ("effectively deprived of food") actually autistic, 18-month-old toddlers.

Otherwise, they're addicted to so-called "aversion therapy," which includes abuses such as slapping faces, water in faces, lemon in mouths, and high-voltage skin shock.

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We are ABA Leaks of Facebook and we lead the baby of all new disability movements, the Counter-Controllers to the ABA Controllers. Dr. Frankenstein has created his monster and we are it!

ABA Leaks finds CNN Anderson Cooper report: Kirk Murphy, the survivor of UCLA's Applied Behavior Analysis "Sissy Boy Experiment," committed suicide.

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A survivor of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) "Gay Conversion Therapy" from the 1974 eventually committed suicide. The chief researcher, Rekers, said it is "unscientific" to conclude that he killed himself due to what he and O. Ivar Lovaas did to him with their "Sissy Boy Experiment." In the end, according to Anderson Cooper of CNN, a gay escort said Rekers gave him "sexual massages" in sex. Rekers denied it. (See Bullock and Thorp (May 6, 2010). "George Rekers is a homosexual, escort says.")

According to Cooper, the boy's real name was Kirk Andrew Murphy. Rekers and Lovaas (1974) called him Kraig to conceal his identity in "Behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child," Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 173-190, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. They later said he had a "Sissy Boy Syndrome." They coerced him with the typical ABA poker chip token economy. The red chip for so-called "feminine behavior" resulted in beatings from his father. His mother said his father gave him "welts" on is body. Rekers and Lovaas claimed they effectively took away his effeminate behaviors.

Thirty years later his mother called it "murder." His brother said, "The only thing they did was they destroyed our brother. They took him away from us." His mother remembers "welts up and down his back and on his buttocks." She said that if one man causes the death of another, it is "murder."

Before that Lovaas put a young autistic girl barefoot on a UCLA electric grid floor torture lab. (See Grant, 1965, in Life Magazine. "Screams, slaps and love. A surprising, shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples.")

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This is what ABA still does to its actually autistic victims today. We call it camouflaging the autism. A gay man can pretend he's straight and marry a woman. He lives a lie. He lives in the closet, concealing his true identity. He's not happy. That is exactly what ABA never stopped doing to the autistic community. We can pass as "normal," but we live a lie and struggle in shame to hide our ausome autism from the domineering neurotypical world. Profiteering ABA is the leading bully network against us.

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Actually autistic researcher Michelle Dawson (January 18, 2004) covered this subject in "The Misbehavior of Behaviorists." This is THE landmark, groundbreaking Behavioral Ethics paper which she penned from the point of view of the truly autistic community, of ABA's direct victims, the true voice of autism speaking, not our parents who have no clue how it feels to be subjected to ABA's "autism or gay conversion therapies."

Dawson said:

In the 1970's, researchers at UCLA authored peer-reviewed articles about the first successes of their program for transforming the inadequate and inappropriate behaviours of young children. This behaviour intervention was considered essential for many reasons: the children's disordered behaviours caused emotional distress in their parents; the behaviours were disruptive and judged unacceptable by society and the children's peers; the behaviours also displaced the proper functioning of these children, who were said to be suffering; and intervention at the earliest possible sign of deviant behaviours was necessary since the prognosis for adolescence and adulthood was notoriously poor and treatment later in life was known to be futile.

This project, like many others at the time, was generously funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The principal investigator, that is the person whose name brought in the funding, was Dr. Lovaas. This comprehensive and intensive behaviour intervention used the principles of operant conditioning to displace maladaptive behaviours, which were punished, with more desirable behaviours, which were rewarded. The most effective punishment was found to be spanking or hitting the children.

The reported success of this intervention was unqualified. People seeing videos of one of the children before and after treatment described him as "two different boys"; he now looked and acted like any other boy. The goal of creating children "indistinguishable" from their peers was apparently achieved. The reports of this success generated controversy, requiring Dr. Lovaas and the other researchers involved to defend their project and its results.

The UCLA project described above was the Feminine Boy Project. Its immediate goal was to replace feminine behaviours (e.g., "maternal nurturance" and playing with girls) with masculine behaviours (e.g., playing with a toy submachine gun and rough-housing with boys) in gender-role-deviant young boys. Its workhorse was Dr. Lovaas' student, the young researcher George A. Rekers. And prominent among its long-term goals was preventing homosexuality.

The role of societal intolerance in choosing target behaviours was mentioned in one of the Rekers/Lovaas studies. The authors concluded that it is more realistic to change those hurt by intolerance than to change the intolerant behaviours of society. This position is known to be short-sighted and to extrapolate badly, as many dissenters noticed.

In fact, ethics-based dissent, including from the late ABA pioneer (and defender of Dr. Lovaas' work in autism) Donald M. Baer, dominated the considerable criticism generated by this project. Everyone noticed that a project presuming to transform the nature of unconsenting clients through behaviour interventions must be challenged as to its ethics. Criticisms of the FBP's choice of good-male/bad-female behaviours were plentiful. The participation of interested parties, such as transsexuals, homosexuals, transvestites, and feminists was argued to be essential in project decision-making. The impoverishment of society through the eradication of a variety of behaviours and what those possessing them may contribute was mentioned. The assumption that non-heterosexuals are dysfunctional and miserable as adolescents and adults was severely questioned.

Critics barely touched on the issue of aversives, and did not split hairs over data points; instead they highlighted the problem of to whom therapists are responsible. Who do they serve: the client, or the client's parents, or society and its values, or themselves and their own values?

Dr. Rekers, Dr. Lovaas, and some others responded with their own ethics: "Once parents and professionals have concluded that a boy has a gender disturbance, a therapist cannot ethically refuse to treat the child." Dr. Rekers, with two others, added in another defense: "If a parent brings a child to a psychologist and asks that the possibility of homosexual development be prevented, is this not an ethically and professionally proper goal for the psychologist?" Defending his work with Dr. Lovaas, Dr. Rekers also used the rationales that homosexual behaviour was (in California, at the time) illegal, and that he shared the same Christian values as the parents involved.

This and Dr. Rekers' great volume of similar work revealed that his principles were fundamentalist, rather than scientific. He objected to homosexuality being removed from the DSM, and proposed it be returned there. He expressed incredulity and indignation that those having the pathology of homosexuality had any say in its classification and treatment.

The two FBP successes reported in Rekers/Lovaas case studies were found to be bisexual on follow-up. One of these successes had attempted suicide at age 18, after his first homosexual encounter.

When I described the FBP to Dr. Gresham, he stated that such a project would not, by his standards, pass ethical review.

For some time the FBP ran concurrently at UCLA with what later became known as the Young Autism Project. While Dr. Lovaas, whose FBP NIMH funding terminated in 1976, has wisely distanced himself from the former, the latter has made him a legend. So the problem is not that apparently successful behaviour interventions, and those like Dr. Lovaas who develop and implement them, are immune to ethical challenges from behaviourists and others. As demonstrated in Auton, the problem is that Dr. Rekers-style intolerance of autistics is the unexceptional norm: it is community standards, it is de rigor, it resembles--see Dr. Maurice's "Let Me Hear Your Voice"--religion.

Here's a brief commentary on Brill (July 19, 2012). Time out vs. time in: What's the difference?

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Brill (July 19, 2012). Time-out vs. time-in: What's the difference?

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) would say that time-ins which empathize with the child during upsetting moments "ineffectively attend to problem behavior. Therefore, time-ins reinforce bad behaviors inappropriately." However, Brill describes ABA-style time-out as inhumane and gives us this humane alternative to ABA's dog biscuit "treatments."

ABA Leaks finds Applied Behavior Analysis' (ABA's) "Cardgate" scandal is worse than previously reported. Not only do ABA providers and students make fun of autistic people, their song on Soundcloud, "A Good Game of Cards," seems to allude to childhood sexual abuse, crudely.

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Applied Behavior Analysis' (ABA's) "Cardgate" image alludes to The Occult. For coverage of ABA and sorcery see our ABA Leaks page in Facebook.

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First see Luterman (September 4, 2017). "Cardgate" scandal uncovers widespread disrespect of autistic people by Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) providers.

Then see Sequenzia (September 6, 2017). ABA providers making fun of autistic people.

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Cards Against Humanity LLC.

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Cards Against Humanity, ABA song on Soundcloud (downloaded September 22, 2017). A good game of cards.

Your dumb questions. Is there an official Cards Against Humanity theme song? Of course there is. It's called "A Good Game of Cards" and it was written and recorded by our friends, The Doubleclicks. You can download the song as a DRM-free Mp3.

[Alert: alludes to child sex abuse.]

Play a game with me. Tell me why I'm sickie. You're my closest friends. Tell me how the world will end. Friends helping friends, meeting new people, answering questions both easy and hard. There's nothing nicer than playing a good game of cards. At last we can have a debate all about concealing a boner or whipping it out. We'll talk about sex. Makes you spend their time flying. Children on leashes and ¿? to lions.... Play a game with me. What are my parents hiding from me? You're my closest friends. Let's be dicks to children. Is that sound a falcon with a cap on its head or is it the fact that my parents are dead? We can find out when we're playing a good game of cards. The game is so peaceful and we're all guilt-free like Oprah when she sobs into Lean Cuisine. It's not gibber jabber. We all feel at ease. Maybe we're born with it. Maybe it's just-B's? Play a game with me. Why do I hurt all over? You're my closest friends. Tell me what war's good for. When you are gone I assure you you're missed. Why don't we all make the penises kiss. There's nothing nicer than playing a good game of cards.

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Here is the new version of Cards Against Humanity's incomplete set of cards.

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Scelzo (August 31, 2017). Cards Against Humanity is back with a whole new deck to destroy your next party.

Cards Against Humanity — the dirtier version of Apples To Apples — has been ruining friendships since 2011. But now the game is back with a whole new fresh deck in case your "What's that smell?" answers were getting a little stale. According the game's new "back to school"- themed website, the Cards Against Humanity 2.0 deck is now 600 cards filled with over 150 new jokes updated for 2017, some of which include "Diversity," "Dick pics," and "The arrival of pizza."

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Murphy (March 11, 2015). Finally, you can play Cards Against Humanity online (the old version.)

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Here's the Cards Against Humanity Wiki

ABA Leaks finds that high-voltage skin shock torture is essential "human-and-non-human, experimental-subject-organism data" to all Experimental and Applied Behavior Analysis (EBA and ABA). ABA Leaks believes all lab rat Skinner Boxes have electric grid floors.

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As many as 86% of a sample of ABAers might consider the use of high-voltage skin shock, even though two U.N. Special Rapporteurs on Torture called skin shock on ABA four-point restraint board shackles "torture." See Table 2, page 217 at Brown, Michaels, Oliva, and Woolf (2008). Personal paradigm shifts among ABA and PBS experts: Comparisons in treatment acceptability. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 10(4), 212-227.

Therefore and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights of the students of the JRC (Judge Rotenberg Center) subjected to Level III Aversive Interventions by means of electric shock and physical means of restraints have been violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards. (Méndez, 2013, p. 85), United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Next see Altieri (June 27, 2016). The "data" is in. Every ABA member completely supports or is complicit to high voltage Massachusetts skin shock "torture." Establishing argument: ABA is different from Positive Behavior Support (PBS), despite some overlap. PBS rules out ABA's punitive techniques as "unnecessary and therefore unethical." However, PBS does punish in practice, despite theoretical claims to the contrary.

Then follow below:

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Yale University (1948). Psychology experiment. Hungry Rat: "Motivation and Reward in Learning."

This is how Experimental Behavior Analysis (EBA) paw-shocks rats in B. F. Skinner Boxes. EBA paw shock "data" informs Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) "how to apply the most effective aversion therapy technologies to the socially important behavior problems of the deviant individuals with autism," ABA says. We at ABA Leaks call it human and non-human animal "torture." So does the United Nations. As far as we know now, all new Skinner Boxes are capable of paw shocking lab rats.

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Altieri (April 29, 2017). ABA has a Terrible Timeline it will never publish and here it is.

Stafford (May 17, 2017). ADAPT goes to FDA to take on the JRC skin shockers.

Altieri (May 1, 2017). Denver. May 25-29, 2017. The Association for Behavior Analysis International annual convention officially "approves" high-voltage ABA skin shock torture once again, after autistic advocates have told them year after year they must stop approving it. Is all ABA deaf, dumb, and blind?

Altieri (April 15, 2017). ABA Leaks concludes, beyond a reasonable doubt, that ABA is a direct cause of skin shock "treatment" on gay victims of Russian concentration camps which the world hasn't seen since Hitler's neurotypical-supremacy Nazis rounded, imprisoned, tortured, sterilized, and annihilated 6,000,000 gays, autistics, gypsies, and disabled victims, especially Jews.

Altieri (April 6, 2017). ABA Leaks asks if ABA's JRC Director of high-voltage skin shock torture lied to the IRS about possible racial discrimination in Massachusetts. At one point 87% of their clients were people of color. [Updated, links repaired September 5, 2018].

Dawson (February 24, 2017). ABA leaders again welcome the JRC's egregious practices. Association for Behavior Analysis International symposium complete with Behavior Analyst Certification Board credits.

Altieri (February 17, 2017). News from 2016 to 2017 shows precisely how violent a place is ABA's JRC of high-voltage Massachusetts skin shock.

Msumba (February 16, 2017). What are my nightmares about? The JRC.

Altieri (February 16, 2017). The seventh death at ABA's JRC of high-voltage skin shock torture was an unborn baby of a 17-year-old girl, according to the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission.

Msumba (Dec 31, 2016). My life inside the JRC Skin shock aversives. What it was like.

Altieri (August 10, 2016). JRC's Executive Director Crookes told the FDA she put ABA skin shock electrodes on her clients' buttocks.

Altieri (July 22, 2016). Terri Du Bous, the next emancipated JRC survivor, speaks.

Altieri (May 4, 2016). The Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission sends ABA Leaks a database of 410 severe abuse allegations at JRC in a recent ten-year time span, averaging one charge per ten days.

Altieri (November 3, 2015). JRC skin shock torturers offered ABAers $85,000+ to work in its "happy environment."

Altieri (October 12, 2015). Two UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture condemn JRC's electroshock torture of autistics and others.

Kosovskaya and Altieri (June 11, 2015). From Russia with love. Actually autistic superhero Anna Kosovskaya escapes ABA's JRC of high-voltage Massachusetts shock torture. Here are her self-reported adventures with interviewer analysis.

Anna Kosovskaya of Facebook

Altieri (May 20, 2015). The Association for Behavior Analysis International officially "approves" ABA's JRC of high-voltage Massachusetts skin shock.

Altieri (May 1, 2015). My one day of electric shock was worse than 36 years of antipsychotics.

Altieri (August 20, 2014). The Behavior Analyst Certification Board condones ABA's JRC torture in Massachusetts with high-voltage skin shock.

Davies (August 9, 2014). "Prisoners of the apparatus": The JRC.

Msumba and Werner (Aug 5, 2014). CBS Evening News extended interview with Jennifer Msumba.

Dawson (May 17, 2009). Saving autistics and the world: Skin shock at the 2009 ABA convention.

Dawson (January 26, 2009). The origins of ABA-based autism interventions.

Dawson (January 18, 2004). The misbehavior of the behaviorists: Ethical challenges to the autism-ABA industry.

Skinner (January 1, 1938). The behavior of organisms.

Pavlov (January 1, 1927). Conditioned reflexes. An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex.

[Edit note: Russian Pavlov cut holes in dog's cheeks to collect and measure their drippings of saliva. Then he showed them meat and rang a tone or a metronome together. Dogs salivated to the pairing. Then he withdrew the meat and sounded the tone. Dogs salivated to the tone, while it had been a neutral stimulus with relation to saliva, under this classical conditioning, pairing stimuli together to simultaneously gain an effect, subsequently the tone would become the conditioned stimulus. DA]

ABA Leaks finds that in 2016 Massachusetts revoked the license of the Eagleton School, which did Applied Behavior Analysis, because the state charged five staffers, at first, and eventually sixteen, with different kinds of criminal abuse of autistic boys.

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Video from Fay (April 8, 2016). WWLP.com22 News.

Massachusetts revoked the license of the Eagleton School, which did Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), because the state charged five staffers, at first, and eventually sixteen, with different kinds of criminal abuse of autistic boys.

Was Massachusetts getting ready to close ABA's Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) of high-voltage extremely painful skin shock? ABA's GED isn't the ECT brain shock of Psychiatry. ABA claims it wouldn't be so "effective" in "decelerating the frequency rates of challenging behaviors" without causing pain. GED stands for "Graduated Electronic Decelerator." See also Davies (August 9, 2014). "Prisoners of the Apparatus."

Here is the archived link to Eagleton's old profile, before Massachusetts revoked their license. Look at the rosy picture they painted of their ABA institution. Eagleton said it did ABA mostly on autistic boys in grades 5-12.

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This final section of this post is copied and pasted word for word from Altieri (April 29, 2017). ABA has a Terrible Timeline it will never publish. This report covers the works of the Counter-Controllers.

Look at how the Eagleton School said wonderful things about itself in January 2016. Two weeks later Eagleton's sh*t hit the ABA fan. Massachusetts investigators invaded their "bucolic" Western Massachusetts campus and shut them down. The state charged 16 of their staffers with various kinds of criminal abuse against their grades 5-12, all-boy, mostly autistic, and other kinds of childhood and teenage victims.

These are the terms Eagleton used to promote themselves to unsuspecting parents who would read their marketing ploys and sign the informed consent documents:

Kurt Garivaltis, Admissions Director. Admissions Associate Chad Astore. Grades 5-12. Founded 1977. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Disorders, Psychiatric Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, trauma issues, challenging behavioral problems, and/or learning disabilities. A structured milieu facilitated in an open setting provides socialization, challenges, and opportunities for working toward a positive self-image and reintegration into home and community. Eagleton operates its residential/academic program year round providing intensive education and counseling, and unique experiential and pre-vocational opportunities in a safe, predictable environment. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with challenging behavioral problems, developmental disorders, psychiatric disorders, emotional disturbances, trauma issues, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and/or learning disabilities. Eagleton School has successfully provided 24 hour residential, educational and therapeutic programming for many generations of adolescent boys during the past 38 years of its existence. The school is nestled on a scenic 46 acre campus within the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, in the town of Great Barrington. Services provided to the young men at Eagleton School are focused around the educational, interpersonal, and social growth of each individual student. This has enabled them to return to their home school district and communities with the skills necessary to display positive behaviors, handle the stressors of life on life's terms, and the vocational and academic skills needed to become gainfully employed, productive members of society. Since our inception, the population of Eagleton students has dramatically evolved. Like many older residential treatment facilities, our roots are in the behaviorally disordered, juvenile delinquent population. Approximately twenty years ago, with the addition of the addition of a sophisticated clinical team, Eagleton began to serve a more psychiatric population which included organic mental illness and trauma survivors. In the past decade, the population shifted again, through the explosion of growth with students on the autism spectrum. At this time, approximately 75% of our current population maintains a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum Disorder co-morbid with other diagnoses. Additionally, this year Eagleton broke ground on a state-of-the-art self-contained program servicing the severely autistic young man. Applied Behavior Analysis and intensive staffing augment the structured milieu. [Bold italics added. DA] Eagleton school. (January 19, 2016. Profile last updated. August 9, 2016. Most current web archive date. Private School Review).

Altieri (May 5, 2016). Berkshire County. Massachusetts charges Eagleton School staff with abuse and revokes its license. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

Ropek (May 4, 2016). Nine former employees of Eagleton school for boys with autism charged with abusing students; arrest warrant issued for one. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

Gentile (May 4, 2016). Nine additional former Eagleton School staffers facing assault charges. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

This brings to 16 the number of Eagleton employees who have been charged in the case. The residential school for boys with special needs was closed last month following a state-led multi-agency investigation.... A police raid on January 30 triggered the investigation, which, according to state officials, revealed a school-wide pattern of abuse, reportedly over the course of several years....

Four of the defendants charged Monday are from Berkshire County. They are Eric D. Williams, 34, Derek L. Saunders, 42, and Alexis Lopez, 23, all of Pittsfield; and Martin G. Schmidt, Jr., 46, of Lenox. Williams faces one count of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person. Saunders faces the same charges plus assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Schmidt is charged with three counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Lopez faces six counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person, as well as one count of assault and battery with intent to inflict injury.

Also arraigned were Michael Bell, 44, of Watervliet, N.Y., who was charged with one count each of assault and battery; Justin Senecal, 26, of Palmer, one count each of assault and battery on a disabled person; assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with intent to cause injury.

Darien C. Sinclair, 24, of Albany, N.Y., was charged with three counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person and Christopher O. Welch, 24, of also of Watervliet was charged with one count each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person.

Isaac H. Harris-El, 41, of Watervliet, was also summonsed but did not appear in court.

He faces the most charges: six counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on disabled person and one count each of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, attempting to intimidate a victim or witness and assault and battery with intent to cause injury.

All eight defendants pleaded not guilty and were all released on their own recognizance.

January 30, 2016. Berkshire County, Massachusetts. "A police raid at the Eagleton School triggered an investigation, which, according to state officials, revealed a school-wide pattern of abuse, reportedly over the course of several years (Gentile, May 4, 2016)." The state eventually revoked its license.

Kupferstein (July 14, 2016). How I teach autistic students without using Applied Behavior Analysis.

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In her article from The Art of Autism entitled "How I teach autistic students without using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)," Kupferstein (July 14, 2016) said,

Many of my autistic piano students are ABA survivors. They have been led to believe that they have no original thoughts, intentions, or free will. Everything they do is scripted, and everything they don’t do is conditioned. It takes us weeks to begin undoing the damage. In the worst cases, it takes months or years, depending on their age and the length of the ABA-induced trauma.

ABA for autistics is based on Pavlov’s operant conditioning for dogs. In this video, you can see the lone dog waiting for permission to have fun. Watching this clip, I can almost hear the ABA kid saying, “Miss Ashley–what am I working for? After I swim for 5 minutes, can I have 15 minutes of iPad time?”

In the (next) video, you can see a non-speaking autistic piano student who was kicking and screaming straight through his first lesson. By the second week, he was playing and reading independently. By the third week, he was happy to follow my guidance to correct his fingering. One month later, this student is now playing with two hands and waits all week for his lesson time, ready to shine. In the first lesson, he had to be convinced to read and play only after the dreaded reward chart was shown to him. After the first month of lessons, he is happily seated at the piano without any rewards mentioned. With my autistic piano students, the work starts from the first lesson when the student realizes that playing the piano is the ‘reward’ and not the ‘task’ with which to work on for a reward.

Here is the best part of Kupferstein (July 14, 2016). See how she lambasts and annihilates ABA in ethics debate here:

ABA (applied behavior analysis) is considered an ‘evidence-based treatment’ for autism, only because the evidence is based on Pavlov’s dogs. When applied to humans, the parent who prefers a favorable outcome will be delighted that their child finally learned to go potty. The problem extends into the ethics of those in position of power who determine the goals. The therapist and parent get to decide on a list of behaviors to enforce, and a list of behaviors to diminish. This can include much-needed self regulatory stimming (Also read Kupperstein (June 3, 2016). Reframing autistic behavior problems as self-preservation. A Freudian view). As in child sexual abuse*, the victim will lifelessly comply if they are groomed with compliments and treats. Just like Pavlov speculated, we are more likely to repeat a behavior once we learn that it produces positive consequences.

This is the Leviticus Loophole, the gay men's ticket to heaven, straight out of Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, first Sunday, June, 2017.

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Robin Margolis photographed this picture, unknown to me at the time, in 2016. That's me doing "Just Nose," as Safety Pat the Proud Autistic Schizophrenic Silly Whistleblowing Clown on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA Boardwalk outside Convention Hall with a bystander and with my fiancé, Patriarch Athenagoras, Greek "Man of Love." I had proposed to 500 straight men per month. Gays are not my type on account of all the barebacking, unprotected anal sex. I'm used to all the rejections. Patriarch didn't say "No" when I got down on my knees and proposed. He had no objection to the prenups I read him. He doesn't bicker or talk back. His beard is thick and wavy and what a uniform. He'll make a perfect husband, ladies and jelly spoons! The protest we encountered in the story that follows took place nearby his steady pose where the old Howard Johnson's and Convention Hall meet the street at Sunset Park, which is where Jersey Pride, Inc., hosts the rally and festivities each first Sunday in June after the parade.

Convention Hall at Jersey Pride Rally and Festival, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, the first weekend in June each year; June 2017

Rally and Festival, June 2017

Rally and Festival, Sunset Park, June 2017

Jersey Pride Parade, June 2017

Two friends of mine from the Asbury Park gay community, Shaune Pony Heath-Thalberg and his husband Jonathan, hugged and praised me yesterday for walking up into the faces of two demonstrating anti-gay Jesus preachers at Gay Pride Asbury yesterday and debating the Bible with one of them. They told me the people who witnessed it were moved by what I did. I went home in tears after they told me that.

I made my last point in the face-to-face debate with the older of the two and turned to the group surrounding the Christians to tell them how the debate went. He was a good listener and we did take turns speaking and listening, so I did not feel bad about him personally. In the second part of the debate, which I have not yet announced anywhere, we reached an impasse, and I told him, "That's a good point," and I turned away from him to face the group. (That's like debating how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. One can make a good point, but it's ridiculous.)

I said to them,

Here's how you do it. Leviticus, "A man shall not lie with a man as he does with a woman." So I told the guy, "You kneel and I'll stand up on my feet. Nobody will be lying down with anybody." So he said, "That's fornication," sex outside marriage. I said, "Yes, but now we have gay marriage." That's your ticket to heaven, everybody!

Then I walked away to continue to clown the Boardwalk for Pride Day. People want to know why I clown. I tell them the cause. To save the world from #punishmentRunAmok. I'd not be so successful if I were I was not so delusional.

The first step is to #CloseTheJRC of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) skin shock. Then we bankrupt ABA. Then we show the world our Reward and Consent (R+C) (dual parent and child consent) Cognitive Behavioral Teaching (CBT) method. Then we teach activists how to use it.

Get up off the ground so nobody can pick you up. Politicians just want to get away from you. They're people, too. Instead of attacking them until they comply with your demands, and then letting up the pressure when they obey (negative reinforcement under aversives removal), write them mass quantities of letters of praise as soon as they do the right thing or as soon as they improve in successive approximations toward your goal (shaping under positive reinforcement).

It won't happen in my lifetime, but my landlord says I can put my mummy in our studio apartment, which we'll convert into a museum. Pony and Jonathan will be the gatekeepers. They'll collect the entrance fees and take their curator salaries. The lines will snake all around Ocean Grove, of course. Ray said we can do it, but we'll still have to pay him rent.

I'll do it again, because they protest with their Jesus signs every first Sunday, June at Jersey Pride. I wish I had done it yesterday, but next year I'll add,

If you're so inclined, get the King James version of the Bible. Whether or not it's a spiritual document, it's a literary tour de force. Read how King David saved his subject Jonathan whom he loved with a passion. Ask yourself, "What's up with that? Were they gay?" And then read St. Paul. He was an in-the-closet gay man with internalized homophobia, just like the sad, pathetic, anti-gay Jesus freaks, my friends. He's the one who opposed fornication. Jesus said nothing about gay sex and the Bible never forbade same-sex marriage. And who were those twelve, handsome, half-shirtless, bearded fishermen at his side all the time? Get real! That's polyamory! Paul was taken prisoner on a ship. Read between the lines. They raped him and so he opposed fornication. What happens in the Navy? What happens in jail? Homosexuality. It's clear as a bell. Now that we have gay marriage, everybody, we can permit the straights to marry, but we won't be so Christian and bitter about it, right?

What about the lesbians? Well, Leviticus says nothing about them, so they can do their hugging and kissing using any combination of romantic Kamasutra positions. As long as they marry, they can pass the Pearly Gates into Heaven. The dudes, however, simply can't do on a mattress. Anything else is game, except, of course, for pre-marital sex

Kamasutra

B. F. Skinner generally opposed coercive punishment, but only for "normal" people, which is what he called "neurotypical people," who we atypical and proudly-identified autistic folks call everyday people, the so-called "mentally healthy" adults and children.

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Skinner was ABA's leader of extremely painful electric skin shock torture upon whom they still call "abnormal autistic deviant human organism experimental subjects." ABA's cruel and unusual Aversion and Shock Therapy device is not the ECT of Psychiatry's brain shock.

B. F. Skinner (1953/2014, p. 183) said,

In the long run, punishment, unlike reinforcement, works to the disadvantage of both the punished organism and the punishing agency.

But Skinner became an advocate of aversives, nevertheless.

"Israel 'is a very humane man, much concerned about injustice. It takes a brave man to take these cases on. Most people run as far away as possible," said the 81-year-old psychologist, who was Israel's mentor when the younger man earned his Harvard doctorate in 1960. [Skinner] emphasized that Israel 'has not asked me to speak on his behalf.'" (Dietz, 1985). "Skinner said he has seen videotapes of Israel's methods but has not visited the program, which maintains group homes in southeastern Massachusetts for 67 clients from many states." (Dietz, 1985)

It wasn't until 1989 that Dr. Matthew L. Israel (2000), also known as "Doctor Hurt," bought his first skin shock device from another Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Brian Iwata, narrow-minded one variable at a time simplistic and reductionist, Antecedent, Behavior Consequence (ABC) assessment instigator, who owns their "most prolific author" bragging rights Shabani et al. (2004, p. 237), and his team's company that invented his SIBIS device.

Iwata (1988) introduced his politics of skin shock paper by saying, "Two years ago Henry Pennypacker, in his presidential address to the Association for Behavior Analysis, used this forum to discuss issues related to the transfer and subsequent adoption of behavioral technology (Pennypacker, 1986)." As of February 2017, which is before the date that this blogger, Dave Jersey of Facebook, blocked Pennypacker from viewing Jersey's posts in Facebook, Jersey identified Pennypacker as a Facebook friend of Dr. Israel's wife, Judy Weber (Gone Wild, July 4, 2015).

B. F. Skinner and O. Ivar Lovaas, sat on the Board of Editors of their inaugural Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) issue 1 (1), when one of the trios of JABA trendsetters of their highly-cited Bear, Wolf, and Risley (1968) "Some current dimensions of ABA," when this trio decided to be gay was a bad thing that ABA would then also proceed to skin shock and torture in any manner of perverted scientific manners, Todd Risley (1968) called a young autistic girl a "deviant" and shocked the hell out of her with primitive ABA skin shock devices, simply because she climbed on the "precious" family furniture.

So instead of bolting the bookshelves to the wall, setting her up with backyard monkey bars, and taking her out to a gymnastics class, they decided it would be more profitable for ABA to "treat her effectively" extremely painful ABA electroshock torture. This article is precisely why ABA Leaks makes this claim that Grampz generally opposed coercive punishment, but only for "normal" people, while he defended ABA extremely painful electric skin shock aversive torture.

Grant (1965)reported that Lovaas, the precision technical Discrete Trial Training and Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention inventor, ABA founder O. Ivar Lovaas, speaking in derogatory terms of Pamela, a young autistic girl, when he took off her shoes and forced her to stand barefoot on his UCLA laboratory room and shocked the hell out of her too, in Life Magazine, as he thought it would be clever and profitable to present her as some kind of a circus sideshow freak act in how they photographed and talked about her.

Dr. Israel (2010) reported, "JRC first employed skin-shock in 1989-1990." So we do not know if Skinner and Israel plotted together on ABA's skin shock. It seems probable.

ABA Leaks finds A Clockwork Orange in Denver. The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) officially "approves" Canton, Massachusetts high-voltage "skin shock therapy" after autistics told ABAI year after year to stop endorsing their torture and abuse. Is all Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Empathy Disabled (ED)? They should all shock one another at their next annual convention to know precisely how their pet project feels.

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This picture from the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) movie, A Clockwork Orange, is about their overbearing and over-controlling methodology.

Like a predictable Clockwork Orange, once again the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) is officially "approving" the Canton, Massachusetts Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electric skin shock "torture" as being "aligned" with ABAI's "mission," this time at its Denver, Colorado, USA annual convention during May 25-29, 2017 (ABAI Convention Program Book, 2017, pp. 23, 34).

What is most incredible is that all ABA supports torture, every last one of them, either outright or complicit, as they have not published a single statement against it, to the knowledge of ABA Leaks (Altieri, 2014, 2016).

Autistic advocates have demanded that ABAI stop their unconscionable behavior, yet they approve this painful abuse year after year (Altieri, April 13, 2016). Cat (May 27, 2012) led a protest against JRC at ABAI with Seattle's Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN).

This is not the ECT of brain shock psychiatry. ABA intends to cause pain. Otherwise, they claim, it would not be so "effective."

This is at least the fifth year in a row ABAI has done this at its annual conventions despite demands from the actually autistic community that Maria Malott, CEO of ABAI, stop her all-out support of torture. (Altieri, 2015, 2016).

Maria Malott, as CEO of ABAI, is a major ABA advocate of torture.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Méndez (2013, p. 85) said,

Therefore, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights of the students of the JRC subjected to Level III Aversive Interventions by means of electric shock and physical means of restraints have been violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards.

This is part of the video of their actual skin shock torture in action that ABA fought so hard to conceal from the public. Andre McCollins is screaming. They gave him 31 shocks in one day, allegedly because he refused to remove his coat when they ordered him to take it off. During the trial, when McCollins sued them at JRC, their pro-ABA witness did not know if it was cold in the room, so he told the jury. This is what ABA calls "scientifically effective treatment."

See the rest of this developing ABA Leaks timeline project here.

Altieri (April 29, 2017). ABA has a terrible timeline it will never publish and here it is.

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Altieri (first published April 29, 2017). Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has a Terrible Timeline it will never publish and here it is. This report includes works of the "CounterControllers" to the ABA Controllers.

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) always only paints a rosy picture of itself. It completely disregards the emerging body of anecdotal evidence against its cruel and unusually coercive and punitive methods, as it misjudges physically harmless atypical behaviors as its "problems of social importance," such as autistic body rocking, hand flapping, and lack of eye contact, as "deviant and stereotypical behaviors," and then it proceeds to "treat" them with doggie treat morsels when we're hungry and any manner of what they call "aversion therapy," including forced ammonia inhalations and extremely painful electric skin shock. Any bona fide scientific system would not deny such crucial, self-reported evidence against its major practices. ABA, therefore, is a pseudoscience that masquerades as a science, which, incidentally, loves to point the finger at cognitive psychology and call that a pseudoscience under the tradition of ABA's high priest, atheist B. F. Skinner, who lambasted what he called "mentalism's fictional explanations of the self-determined, free-will causes of behavior which interfered with the right investigations into the true causes of our responses, the deterministic interaction of the human and non-human organisms with our environments." The preceding quote was a paraphrase of Skinner's actual language found throughout his literature in places such as his (1953/2014) book, Science and Human Behavior.

ABA Leaks has just begun this timeline project. We intend to generate, collect, and place all the reports of ABA-induced trauma for all of ABA to study here in this timeline. If they continue to dismiss them, and not include them in their academic and official analyses, then we then reach out to health insurance companies, to insurance regulators, and to federal and state prosecutors who can then decide whether or not to pursue ABA institutions who have probably been lobbying our elected officials to have ABA insurance reimbursement coverage of their many hours of expensive and intensive, yet ineffective, we claim, interventions, a coverage which the ABA industry has acquired in many USA states.

This, we shall ask law enforcement, has been a major insurance fraud and a massive waste of taxpayer money, as there are non-ABA humane ways to support autistics. ABA claims it helps, falsely, as so we Counter-Controllers conclude after more than ten years of inquiry and investigation and direct experience withe the Controllers. It is important to note here, that we are not criminal attorneys, so we do not know if this is, in fact, a legal insurance fraud, but there's nothing stopping us from asking the prosecutors to make this decision, right? Stay tuned to this page as we mount upon the timeline more reports and videos of actual ABA in practice as well as survivor reports and PTSD victim reports.

ABA Leaks seeks more voluntary contributors and researchers to assist here with this task, please. You will protect the next generation of potential ABA victims, your peers in your group, as we see it. You can be anonymous or not, depending on your desire. You will join the newest baby of movements in the disabled world: the Counter-Controllers to the ABA Controllers. It is incredibly exciting to be involved at this birthing.

If ABA were only about gentle teaching of skills, we'd have no problem with it, as one Counter-Controller and leading JRC skin shock opponent, Chris Stargazer, astutely pointed out. It is not much more than submission training under its attempt to wrestle obedience from independent-minded children and break us of our will, like animal trainers at the circus do.

We have come to know them in depth. To our surprise, as ABA Leaks started this blog in 2007 with the hopes of finding a wealth of opponents to punishment, which Skinner consistently warned the world against. To our dismay, we discovered that not only did ABA completely support punitive techniques, apparently against the Skinner doctrine, but then we retrieved documents that showed Skinner's true colors.

Now we see Skinner only opposed punishment against his typically "well-behaving normal" peers. He was the leader of the movement to shock, torture, and punish any manner of person whom ABA deemed to be "abnormal," including transgendered, gay, autistic, mentally ill, intellectually disabled, senior citizens, inner city youth, and so on and so forth. Should ABA move to punish a healthy adult, that was only with their own power to quit the study.

When ABA punishes a disabled child, that child is not allowed to say "no" to horrific abuse. ABA will claim the child has no wherewithal to give informed consent. "Only the parents can approve or disapprove our behavior plans." What kind of lesson is this to teach a victim? It's wrong to stand up to an abuser?

That's why this blogger offers Reward and Consent (R+C) Cognitive Behavioral Teaching (CBT) as an ethical alternative to highly unethical ABA. In somewhat behavioral terms, we justify and explain how to gain the dual consent of parent and child to cognitive behavioral interventions, which is like speaking a foreign language to ABA should you talk to them about it.

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Parents, ask an autistic adult how to help your autistic child with no ABA, please. Barring that, if you insist on ABA, watch and videotape it all, especially Day One of submission training. Ask yourself, would you like it if ABA did that to you? If your child resists, verbally or non-verbally, that means to "stop it now." Fire them on the spot and find a good way to help them. Otherwise, we know, as we are autistic adults, your children will grow up resenting you for allowing such abuse and for hiring them and paying for it. Besides, what a huge waste of your hard-earned, out-of-pocket money. Even if you have insurance, you've got deductibles and co-pays hand over so they can line their ABA pockets.

ABA will want you in a panic over a new diagnosis. Then will even say or imply that they will report you to child protective services if you do not hire them. They use wandering, head-banging, skin-biting, eye-gouging and aggression in their favor to rope you in. However, one of them, who leads the breakaway non-ABA, non-punitive Positive Behavior Support (PBS) profession, Gary LaVigna, BCBA, co-authored the following commentary.

A life-threatening crisis is no opportunity for ABA's behavioral interventions. It is a time for crisis management, which takes on a different set of skills, such as de-escalation, as-gentle-as-possible take downs, and non-mechanical, non-strap, hand-to-hand restraint, but foremost it requires de-escalation and prevention, by professionals trained with these skills. ABA is more about treatment after problems emerge than it is about preventing problems from occurring in the first place and ABA's extremely coercive methods often provoke the very same aggression and escape from their asinine demands that they claim to "treat effectively." ABA will escalate the situation when that is the worst thing to do.

LaVigna and Donnellan (1986, chapter one, footnote one).

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July 11, 2017 update, this section.

Pro-ABA critics have called this timeline "biased." Please note. ABA asks for no money to disseminate these facts. ABA does not listen to us. Its leaders will not return our phone calls any more. ABA is a major industry. It looks like multi-billions of dollars in insurance company, parents, and school district reimbursements. ABA "dissemination" groups and academic journals crank out tens of thousands of rosy posts and articles about how "effective" they are supposed to be. This timeline is the closest thing to an academic journal the CounterControllers have to counter the manipulative, coercive ABA propaganda machine. Is the Terrible ABA Timeline one-sided? Of course, it is. Is it biased? No it's not.

This timeline comes directly from our personal experiences as well as from nothing but facts and the conclusions we reach from them. We document all facts and cite the sources with links where our readers can verify them all for themselves.

Remember. Never believe anything an ABAer claims is true in her brag sheets. [Edit note: An ABA Controller is usually a woman, so I often, but not always, use just the "she" pronoun for them, instead of the cumbersome "he or she" or the confusing, grammatically-incorrect singular "they." DA.]

Look at how the Eagleton School said wonderful things about itself in January, 2016. Two weeks later Eagleton's sh*t hit the ABA fan. Massachusetts investigators invaded their "bucolic" Western Massachusetts campus and shut them down. The state charged 16 of their staffers with various kinds of criminal abuse against their grade 5-12, all-boy, mostly autistic and other kinds of childhood and teenage victims.

Fay (April 8, 2016). Eagleton School shutting down after losing license. Five former employees facing charges in connection with alleged abuse. [They did ABA on autistic boys.]

These are the terms Eagleton used to promote themselves to unsuspecting parents who would read their marketing ploys and sign the informed consent documents:

Kurt Garivaltis, Admissions Director. Admissions Associate Chad Astore. Grades 5-12. Founded 1977. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Disorders, Psychiatric Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, trauma issues, challenging behavioral problems, and/or learning disabilities. A structured milieu facilitated in an open setting provides socialization, challenges, and opportunities for working toward a positive self-image and reintegration into home and community. Eagleton operates its residential/academic program year round providing intensive education and counseling, and unique experiential and pre-vocational opportunities in a safe, predictable environment. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with challenging behavioral problems, developmental disorders, psychiatric disorders, emotional disturbances, trauma issues, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and/or learning disabilities. Eagleton School has successfully provided 24 hour residential, educational and therapeutic programming for many generations of adolescent boys during the past 38 years of its existence. The school is nestled on a scenic 46 acre campus within the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, in the town of Great Barrington. Services provided to the young men at Eagleton School are focused around the educational, interpersonal, and social growth of each individual student. This has enabled them to return to their home school district and communities with the skills necessary to display positive behaviors, handle the stressors of life on life's terms, and the vocational and academic skills needed to become gainfully employed, productive members of society. Since our inception, the population of Eagleton students has dramatically evolved. Like many older residential treatment facilities, our roots are in the behaviorally disordered, juvenile delinquent population. Approximately twenty years ago, with the addition of the addition of a sophisticated clinical team, Eagleton began to serve a more psychiatric population which included organic mental illness and trauma survivors. In the past decade, the population shifted again, through the explosion of growth with students on the autism spectrum. At this time, approximately 75% of our current population maintains a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum Disorder co-morbid with other diagnoses. Additionally, this year Eagleton broke ground on a state-of-the-art self-contained program servicing the severely autistic young man. Applied Behavior Analysis and intensive staffing augment the structured milieu. [Bold italics added. DA] Eagleton school. (January 19, 2016. Profile last updated. August 9, 2016. Most current web archive date. Private School Review).

ABA refuses to allow its victims the power to dissent. Since when does anyone need full information about the consequences to his or her decisions in order to say to an abuser: "Go away! Leave me alone! Get out of my face!" Yet ABA proceeds with its cruel and unusual, extremely bizarre, "aversion therapy," We ask parents of autistic and disabled children: Would you want to be punished with slaps, pinches, four-point restraints, seclusion, isolation, over-correction, white noise machines, bitter lemon on lips, facial water spray, and extremely painful electric skin shock? What kind of therapy to people want to escape? Why ABA Therapy, of course. But how is that therapy?

The most positive consequence they can use is phony praise paired with tiny bits of candy, e.g. one Skittle per commandment. This is their obedience training intensive drills to autistic children who are easily over-stimulated. They promise to "effectively" make autistic non-autistic, and they fail at this impossible task. Kids may pass as less autistic as they shame them for being different.

ABA tries to make gays non-gay, with the same shock they use on autistics, this time in the Chechnya gay pogrom Putin Russia gay concentration camps, we argue. ABA can shame closeted gays into passing, into marrying women. Then they do anonymous, often unprotected sex in public parks, bathrooms, and porn shop booths. Then ABA, which has no clue about how people feel, says, "Look! See! We did it! We are so effective. We are science!"

Yet ABA, in its superior attitude and power over little children, has a "retarded" level of EIQ, Emotional IQ. It cannot directly observe feelings in others. It cannot count them, mark them on a data sheet, and manipulate them into increased or decreases rates of response. ABA, therefore, is Empathy Disabled, no better or worse. We at ABA Leaks love everyone, even the bullies. ABA knows that to submit to a bully, makes the bullying worse. So we love ABA. We free them from their miserable, victimizing lives. Love won with gay marriage. Love will win when we impeach Trump and his Vice President Pence, whom ABA froths at the mouth over in hopes they can resume their "gay conversion therapy" under his evangelical Christian thumb. Truth will win, sooner or later, when we #CloseTheJRC of extremely painful electric GED skin shock. (This is not ECT. It's supposed to hurt. ECT is not.) Truth will win when proceed to bankrupt ABA, unless they're willing to hear us and negotiate our demands. We want actually autistic adult advocates on all Behavior Change Teams ANS we enforce the right of the child to dissent AND fire the behaviorist AND her institution. AND we promote true, humane therapies and supports, all outside ABA's reach. Remember, ask an autistic adult how to help an autistic child with #NoABA because #ABAisAbuse. We don't demand money for this service, but ABA always does. We're happy to oblige!

Dave Altieri (DA), #ABALeaks Blabbermouth-in-Charge.

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In reverse chronological order, here are the works of the ABA CounterControllers along with the Terrible Timeline that the Controllers will never publish in any of their propaganda, guaranteed.

[When issues only print the month and year of a report, a date takes day 1 of the month. When we only know the year, as in a book publication, it becomes January 1 of the given year. Spring issues take March 1, Summer, June 1, Autumn September 1, and Winter, December 1. DA]

2017

Altieri (December 9, 2017). Is ABA a profession or not? There have been allegations of abuse and fraud against Kelle Wood Rich, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, CEO of the Central Texas Autism Center, yet the Behavior Analyst Certification Board still lets her practice.

Altieri (November 25, 2017). CNN Anderson Cooper report: Kirk Murphy, the survivor of UCLA's ABA "Sissy Boy Experiment," committed suicide.

Delahooke (November 12, 2017). A new lens for understanding #behavior problems. "She simply didn’t feel safety in the environment. Her behaviors weren’t symptoms of 'disorder,' per se, but reflections of that lack of safety."

Altieri (October 20, 2017). Here is a brief commentary on Brill (July 19, 2012). Time out vs. time in: What's the difference?

Altieri (September 22, 2017). Applied Behavior Analysis' (ABA's) "Cardgate" scandal is worse than previously reported. Not only do ABA providers and students make fun of autistic people, their song on Soundcloud, "A Good Game of Cards," seems crudely to allude to childhood sexual abuse.

Play a game with me. Tell me why I'm sickie. You're my closest friends. Tell me how the world will end. Friends helping friends, meeting new people, answering questions both easy and hard. There's nothing nicer than playing a good game of cards. At last we can have a debate all about concealing a boner or whipping it out. We'll talk about sex. Makes you spend their time flying. Children on leashes and ? to lions.... Play a game with me. What are my parents are hiding from me? You're my closest friends. Let's be dicks to children. Is that sound a falcon with a cap on its head or is it the fact that my parents are dead? We can find out when we're playing a good game of cards. The game is so peaceful and we're all guilt-free like Oprah when she sobs into Lean Cuisine. It's not gibber jabber. We all feel at ease. Maybe we're born with it. Maybe it's just-B's? Play a game with me. Why do I hurt all over? You're my closest friends. Tell me what war's good for. When you are gone I assure you you're missed. Why don't we all make the penises kiss. There's nothing nicer than playing a good game of cards.

Cards Against Humanity (downloaded September 22, 2017). (An ABA) party game (against actually autistic) for horrible people. Their website says they are located at Cards Against Humanity, 1917 N Elston Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60642.

Freshman year is the perfect time to reinvent your shitty personality. And that's what we've done with the latest edition of Cards Against Humanity. We expanded the game to 600 cards and updated it for 2017 with over 150 incredible new jokes like “Diversity,” “Dick pics,” and “The arrival of the pizza.” We also added some jokes about our dumb asshole president.

ABA Leaks of Facebook (September 15, 2017). We have our first piece of solid evidence to support an astonishing hypothesis, which we back up with a great deal of circumstantial evidence. We now specify our educated guess that Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electric skin shock "torture" actually tries to practice devil worship sorcery on its autistic and other kinds of victims.

Altieri (September 11, 2017). What to do when an autistic boy flops. Nothing. Case closed. A commentary on Ryan (January 30, 2013). The cost of (ABA) compliance is unreasonable.

Sequenzia (September 6, 2017). ABA providers making fun of autistic people (in Cardgate).

Luterman (September 4, 2017). 'Cardgate' scandal uncovers widespread disrespect of autistic people.

Cards Against Humanity is a game whose own creators describe it as, “a party game for horrible people.” The game has been extremely popular, with several official and unofficial expansion packs available. Recently, a group of behavior analysts decided to get in on the fun by making their own expansion pack. Unfortunately, the result is anything but fun. In fact, it makes light of several abusive practices that are not currently restricted by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, the governing body for Board Certified Behavior Analysts all over the world. “Pinch the nose to release the jaw” isn’t funny when you’re on the receiving end of “feeding therapy” or having ammonia sprayed in your mouth as a punishment for noncompliance. The cards also included multiple references to physical restraint, electric shock, and feces. [Bold italics added. DA]

NOS Magazine reached out to the original poster of the cards, Amanda N. Kelly, also known by her Facebook moniker “Behaviorbabe.” Kelly has won multiple awards, including “Advocacy Group of the Year” from Autism Speaks. She also has made multiple videos about ethics and ABA. She stated that she only posted the cards, that she didn't create them, that a group of students did, instead, and that she should have looked more closely at the cards and didn't review them before posting them. When asked for more information on the students, she said stated that she did not know who they were.

ABA Leaks of Facebook (August 14, 2017). ABA Leaks tentatively conclude that Canton, Massachusetts', about thirty miles from Salem, JRC of extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture, indisputably, what all ABA "approves," year after year, indisputably, practices dark, cruel, malevolent, murderous, sorcery.

Çevik (August 11, 2017). How my nonspeaking autistic son taught me YouTube speak.

Urban Nomad, "Actually Autistic" (July 26, 2017) tweet:

Honestly, to me, #ABAIsAbuse. It gave me great #PTSD, and is very disrespectful to #autistic ppl.
— ACC 🔋 (@Wpg_UrbanNomad) July 26, 2017

Cotter (June 24, 2017). Massachusetts finds abuse, seeks changes at Judge Rotenberg Center of Applied Behavior Analysis' (ABA's) extremely painful electric skin shock, what the U.N. calls ABA's "torture." It all takes place near Salem, Boston, and Cambridge in and around Canton.

Altieri (June 6, 2017). This is the Leviticus loophole, the gay men's ticket to heaven, straight out of Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, first Sunday, June, 2017 (including a passage on Reward and Consent's Behavioral Ethics, the ABA Leaks Cognitive Behavioral Teaching methodology).

Altieri (May 29, 2017). Humpty Dumpty sat in the stall....

Altieri (May 27, 2017). It's late Friday night, early Saturday morning. ABA is convening in Denver, drunk, no doubt. Who are they do misjudge others?

Stafford (May 17, 2017). ADAPT goes to FDA to take on the Judge Rotenberg Center skin shockers

Altieri (May 13, 2017). B. F. Skinner, high priest of ABA, generally opposed coercive punishment, but only for whom he called "normal" people, while he favored extremely painful electric skin shock, "ABA aversives therapy" torture, for whom he would call "abnormal deviants."

Altieri (May 1, 2017). Denver. May 25-29, 2017. The Association for Behavior Analysis International annual convention officially "approves" extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture once again, after autistic advocates have told them year after year they must stop approving it. Is all ABA deaf, dumb, and blind?

Adams (April 25, 2017). Why hasn't the FDA passed its ban on the "medical device" used at the Massachusetts facility that shocks students with disabilities?

Altieri (April 19, 2017). ABA Leaks catches ABA's bad behavior red-handed. Two massive ABA networks fight. Dude calls it a "hostile takeover." Ha!

Altieri (April 17, 2017). ABA Leaks concludes that a direct cause of the "shock treatment" in Chechnya's gay concentration camps is the pseudoscience cult called ABA.

Altieri (April 17, 2017). She's speaking again. Jennifer Msumba, ABA skin shock torture victim, reports on her trauma, yet ABA refuses to listen.

Altieri (April 15, 2017). ABA Leaks finds that the best way to educate autistic and disabled children is to home school them in groups with other home schooling families with absolutely no cruel and unusually coercive ABA behavior modifications.

Kandaswamy and Altieri (April 9, 2017). The Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience said, "The time has come to stop forcing ABA on the autistic child."

Altieri (April 6, 2017). Did the Executive Director of Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture lie to the IRS about her institution's racial discrimination?

Rowlands (April 1, 20170. People with autism have the right to autonomy, too.

ABA doesn't allow freedom because #ABAisAbuse. #NoABA. These are our hashtags in Twitter. B. F. Skinner said there is no such thing as freedom and ABA insists on controlling all consequences to behavior when parents sign up their children. If children object, ABA says, "They are not informed." Since when does a child need information in order to say "no" to an abuser?

Altieri (March 18, 2017). ABA did it to gays. They still do it to autistics. We call it false behavioral conversion therapy. It causes us Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, indisputably.

Altieri (March 11, 2017). B. F. Skinner's Utopian dream of a planet-wide, mass-scale, Plato's behavior modification Republic, as dictated, not by a philosopher king, as Plato planned, but by an elite class of his wolf-in-sheep's-clothes Behavior Analyst followers, is materializing.

Roark (March 10, 2017). U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General report. The Defense Health Agency improperly paid for autism-related (Applied Behavior Analysis) services to selected companies in the TRICARE South Region.

Dawson (February 24, 2017). ABA leaders again welcome the Judge Rotenberg Center's egregious practices Association for Behavior Analysis symposium complete with Behavior Analyst Certification Board credits.

Altieri (February 20, 2017). B. F. Skinner made scientific discoveries, but Sigmund Freud did not, according to a reading of Karl Popper, philosopher of science. Nevertheless, Skinner was cruel.

Altieri (February 20, 2017). J. Edgar Hoover, our Dad, and I are the worst of the rotten apples.

Altieri (February 17, 2017). News from 2016 to 2017 shows precisely how violent a place is Canton, Massachusetts' ABA Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful electric ABA skin shock.

Msumba (February 16, 2017). What are my nightmares about? The Judge Rotenberg Center.

Altieri (February 16, 2017). The seventh death with Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture was an unborn baby, according to the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission.

Altieri (February 7, 2017). Who runs Disability Scoop? Why do they support the skin shock torturers, the pseudoscience cult known as ABA?

Altieri (January 28, 2017). Here's a review of pro-ABA Temple Grandin's (1984): "My experiences as an autistic child and review of selected literature."

Altieri (January 28, 2017). A monkey falls off the monkey bars to become a proud schizophrenic.

Altieri (January 27, 2017). A harmless schizophrenic man with paranoia in remission sees Donald Trump's rambling CIA speech and calls him a dangerous, provocative, grandiose, paranoid sociopath with religious pathology.

Altieri (January 24, 2017). Aktion Mensch defunds ABA programs in Germany.

Unumb (January 1, 2017). Autism $peak$ self-funded employer tool kit. [Edit note. Attorney for A$$ teaches parents how to lobby for ABA reimbursement insurance coverage. DA]

2016

Msumba (Dec 31, 2016). My life inside the Judge Rotenberg Center. Skin shock aversives. What it was like.

Altieri (November 24, 2016). An actually autistic man defines and explains ABA.

Altieri (November 13, 2016). Is sociopath Trump as pathologically paranoid as I was? Did HE hack the vote he insisted Clinton "rigged?"

Altieri (November 8, 2016). Dear Board Certified Behavior Analysts: Skin shock yourselves instead of autistic people and stop calling us "deviants," you control freaks!

Altieri (October 15, 2016). ABA behavior controllers claw their way into the USA's National Association of School Psychologists which calls Canton, Massachusetts' Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful electric skin shock ABA torture "good company" at its annual conventions.

Oakdown and Altieri (September 26, 2016). Autistic Cassandra Oakdown, 19, reports forced behavior modification normality with buckets of cold water splashed in their face.

Des Roches Rosa (September 22, 2016). How "autism warrior parents" harm autistic kids.

Your autistic kids depend on you, but if you're not autistic, then you have to learn how to be the parent they need, and autistic people's perspectives can help you tremendously. So do your best to absorb how autistic people of all abilities think and perceive the world. If people describe your child with labels like "low functioning" or "high functioning," tell them why autistic activist Amy Sequenzia, who types to communicate, considers those terms useless. If professionals insist that your non-speaking child must do speech therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), tell them how focusing solely on those approaches prevented Ido Kedar from getting appropriate communication and education options until he was a teenager. If your child prefers to talk by repeating what other people say, quote Amythest Schaber on why echolalia is a functional communication strategy. If you are told that you're in denial about your kids' challenges by accepting autism, refer them to Ruti Regan on why accepting being disabled is not the same as liking every aspect of being disabled."

Altieri (August 29, 2016). The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere [Israel over Palestine] is a threat to justice everywhere [to us actually autistic and us actually schizophrenic people]."

Altieri (August 11, 2016). The Journal of Absurd Behavior Analysis (2,1) asks, "Would you punish yourself for slouching with the electro-mechanical noisy garment apparatus or with the toilet bowl plunger perched on your head inside the pick-it-up-by-yourself operant?"

Altieri (August 10, 2016). Judge Rotenberg Center's Executive Director Crookes told the FDA she put skin shock device electrodes on her clients' buttocks.

Altieri (July 22, 2016). Terri Du Bous, the next emancipated Judge Rotenberg Center survivor, speaks.

Altieri (June 28, 2016). The "data" is in. Each and every ABA pseudo-professional completely supports or is complicit to ABA's extremely painful electric skin shock torture. Prerequisite argument: ABA is very different from Positive Behavior Support.

Altieri (May 9, 2016). The ARC, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens, promotes abusive ABA programs and barges into autism territory where it does not belong.

Altieri (May 5, 2016). Berkshire County. Massachusetts charges Eagleton School staff with abuse and revokes its license. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

Ropek (May 4, 2016). Nine former employees of Eagleton school for boys with autism charged with abusing students; arrest warrant issued for one. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

Gentile (May 4, 2016). Nine additional former Eagleton School staffers facing assault charges. [They did ABA to autistic boys.]

This brings to 16 the number of Eagleton employees who have been charged in the case. The residential school for boys with special needs was closed last month following a state-led multi-agency investigation.... A police raid on January 30 triggered the investigation, which, according to state officials, revealed a school-wide pattern of abuse, reportedly over the course of several years....

Four of the defendants charged Monday are from Berkshire County. They are Eric D. Williams, 34, Derek L. Saunders, 42, and Alexis Lopez, 23, all of Pittsfield; and Martin G. Schmidt, Jr., 46, of Lenox. Williams faces one count of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person. Saunders faces the same charges plus assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Schmidt is charged with three counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Lopez faces six counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person, as well as one count of assault and battery with intent to inflict injury.

Also arraigned were Michael Bell, 44, of Watervliet, N.Y., who was charged with one count each of assault and battery; Justin Senecal, 26, of Palmer, one count each of assault and battery on a disabled person; assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with intent to cause injury.

Darien C. Sinclair, 24, of Albany, N.Y., was charged with three counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person and Christopher O. Welch, 24, of also of Watervliet was charged with one count each of assault and battery and assault and battery on a disabled person.

Isaac H. Harris-El, 41, of Watervliet, was also summonsed but did not appear in court.

He faces the most charges: six counts each of assault and battery and assault and battery on disabled person and one count each of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, attempting to intimidate a victim or witness and assault and battery with intent to cause injury.

All eight defendants pleaded not guilty and were all released on their own recognizance.

Altieri (May 4, 2016). The Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission sends ABA Leaks a database of 410 severe abuse allegations at Rotenberg in a recent ten-year time span, averaging one charge per ten days.

Altieri (April 23, 2016). Here's Reward and Consent's Cognitive Behavioral Teaching amended Serenity Prayer.

Altieri (April 15, 2016) Here's some history, ethics, politics, behavior analysis, technology, and trends of the new BUYcott consumer movement.

Altieri (April 13, 2016). The Association for Behavior Analysis International officially "approved" extremely painful electric skin shock torture once again, after autistic advocates demanded they stop approving it.

Fay (April 8, 2016). Eagleton School shutting down after losing license. Five former employees facing charges in connection with alleged abuse. [They did ABA on autistic boys.]

Altieri (March 31, 2016). ABA is abuse. Reward and Consent's Cognitive Behavioral Teaching method is a viable alternative. It uses dual parent AND child consent.

Fact. January 30, 2016. Berkshire County, Massachusetts. "A police raid at the Eagleton School triggered an investigation, which, according to state officials, revealed a school-wide pattern of abuse, reportedly over the course of several years (Gentile, May 4, 2016)." The state eventually revoked its license. They did ABA to autistic boys.

Altieri (January 22, 2016). United Kingdom Positive Behavior Support advocates shun ABA skin shock pain. [Edit note. Post-publication title addendum: "I was wrong to praise them." DA]

Eagleton school. (January 19, 2016. Profile last updated. August 9, 2016. Most current web archive date. Private School Review). [Edit note: Massachusetts revoked Eagleton's license due to allegations of 16 staffers abusing the autistic boys there.

Kurt Garivaltis, Admissions Director. Admissions Associate Chad Astore. Grades 5-12. Founded 1977. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Disorders, Psychiatric Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, trauma issues, challenging behavioral problems, and/or learning disabilities. A structured milieu facilitated in an open setting provides socialization, challenges, and opportunities for working toward a positive self-image and reintegration into home and community. Eagleton operates its residential/academic program year round providing intensive education and counseling, and unique experiential and per-vocational opportunities in a safe, predictable environment. Eagleton School is a residential psycho-educational treatment center for boys and young, men with challenging behavioral problems, developmental disorders, psychiatric disorders, emotional disturbances, trauma issues, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and/or learning disabilities. Eagleton School has successfully provided 24 hour residential, educational and therapeutic programming for many generations of adolescent boys during the past 38 years of its existence. The school is nestled on a scenic 46 acre campus within the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, in the town of Great Barrington. Services provided to the young men at Eagleton School are focused around the educational, interpersonal, and social growth of each individual student. This has enabled them to return to their home school district and communities with the skills necessary to display positive behaviors, handle the stressors of life on life's terms, and the vocational and academic skills needed to become gainfully employed, productive members of society. Since our inception, the population of Eagleton students has dramatically evolved. Like many older residential treatment facilities, our roots are in the behaviorally disordered, juvenile delinquent population. Approximately 20 years ago, with the addition of the addition of a sophisticated clinical team, Eagleton began to serve a more psychiatric population which included organic mental illness and trauma survivors. In the past decade, the population shifted again, through the explosion of growth with students on the autism spectrum. At this time, approximately 75% of our current population maintains a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum Disorder co-morbid with other diagnoses. Additionally, this year Eagleton broke ground on a state-of-the-art self-contained program servicing the severely autistic young man. Applied Behavior Analysis and intensive staffing augment the structured milieu. [Bold italics added. DA]

Astrid Âû (January 15, 2016). Game of quiet hands.

Astrid Âû' (January 15, 2016). Compliance and the journey in hell.

Anon Boy, His Anon Mom, and Altieri (January 7, 2016). A smart schoolboy says Positive Behavior Support is bad to him and his friends.

2015

Altieri (December 9, 2015). ABA forces a young boy to play. How ethical is this?

Altieri (November 21, 2015). Here's why ABA is a profiteering, pseudo-scientific cult.

Kedar (November 3, 2015). Motor difficulties in severe autism.

When I was a small child I had ABA therapy forty hours a week. I sat at a table and I was asked to demonstrate my understanding of basic concepts by pointing to flashcards arrayed in front of me during drills. My instructors took data regarding whether I pointed to the right card or not. They thought they were collecting data on my receptive understanding of language. They were not. I understood everything, as any other child my age would. The data they were collecting, though they did not know it, actually measured my poor ability at that time to get my hand to touch with accuracy the card I wanted, and did not reflect an accurate measure of how much I understood. My mind might be screaming, "Touch tree! Don’t touch house!" and I would watch, like a spectator, as my hand went to the card my hand, not my brain, wanted. And down in the data book it would be marked that I had not yet mastered the concept of tree. This is the neurological force that needs to be studied.

Altieri (November 3, 2015). Aversives-addicted ABA elector-shockers are on trial against Positive Behavior Support (PBS) non-punishers.

Altieri (November 3, 2015). Judge Rotenberg Center skin shock torturers offered ABAers $85,000+ to work in its "happy environment."

Altieri (October 12, 2015). Two UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture condemn Judge Rotenberg Center's electroshock torture of autistics and others.

Altieri (October 9, 2015). Repetitive ABA drills prevent autistic learning.

Rae (October 5, 2015). Training by repetition actually prevents learning for those with autism.

Altieri (September 9, 2015). ABA is highly unethical.

Altieri (September 4, 2015). Please report the Judge Rotenberg Center of ABA electroshock torture to Facebook.

Altieri (July 31, 2015). The FDA gives a 24/7 complaint line to ABA Leaks advocates against extremely painful ABA electric skin shock torture: (800) 891-8295. FDA New England requests more public input into Rotenberg Center's FDA-unapproved electric current levels. July 9, 2015. Canton, Massachusetts. Glenda Crookes Executive Director of ABA's extremely painful electric skin shock torture meets ABA Leaks advocates Persico and Rosenthal and says she still shocks her disabled clients with FDA-uncleared devices.

Altieri (June 23, 2015). Judge Rotenberg Center's Achilles' heel vulnerability is the truth about ABA electroshock torture.

Kosovskaya and Altieri (June 11, 2015). From Russia with love. Actual autistic #superhero Anna Kosovskaya escapes Canton, Massachusetts Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful Applied Behavior Analysis electroshock torture. Her self-reported adventures with interviewer analysis.

Anna Kosovskaya of Facebook.

Altieri (May 20, 2015). The Association for Behavior Analysis International officially "approves" the Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful ABA electric skin shock.

Altieri (May 1, 2015). My one day of electric shock was worse than 36 years of antipsychotics, which I happen to enjoy very much, just as many others like me also appreciate them, according to my psychiatrists, while ABA claims its coercive methods are so much better than medicine, which they ain't, not by a long-shot if you will only listen to all their victims instead of their biased, multi-billion-dollar-operation disseminators.

Altieri (April 6, 2015). A so-called "deviant autistic child" becomes a multi-billion dollar benefactor of ABA. Not.

Altieri (April 2, 2015). Hey! Listen up, all you loud-mouth ABAers. I was ignoring you first. So there. See how you like them apples.

Altieri (March 31, 2015). Is it childhood Oppositional Defiant Disorder? No. It's adulthood Unreasonable Demand Disorder.

Altieri (March 15, 2015). Let's simply BUYcott non-GMO products instead of boycotting GMOs.

Altieri (February 26, 2015). B. F. Skinner made costly mistakes in his Behavioral Ethics leadership.

Altieri (February 24, 2015). Please tell New York City Mayor de Blasio to stop ABA electroshock torture of disabled people.

Altieri (January 24, 2015). ABA fails again, as always. It won't even acknowledge, let alone accept, a peace offering from an ABA survivor.

Altieri (October 23, 2014). The Journal of Absurd Behavior Analysis (1,1) asks, "How do unclad feet affect floor dirtiness?"

2014

Altieri (October 15, 2014). A seven-year inquiry into ABA finds ethics problems of massive proportions.

Altieri (September 30, 2014). The notions of absolute and relative freedom have some history and consequence.

Altieri (September 27, 2014). Cable guy avoids more bumps on the head.

Altieri (September 12, 2014). A new ethics code will bind Behavior Analysts' behaviors on January 1, 2016.

Miller (April 13, 2014). Judge Rotenberg Center FDA petition by former skin shocker Greg Miller.

Altieri (August 20, 2014). The Behavior Analyst Certification Board condones extremely painful ABA skin shock torture.

Davies (August 9, 2014). "Prisoners of the apparatus": The Judge Rotenberg Center.

Msumba and Werner (Aug 5, 2014). CBS Evening News extended interview with Jennifer Msumba.

Altieri (April 23, 2014). How necessary is the analysis of autistic behavior?

Altieri (April 20, 2014). Here's an Easter letter to my family about guardian angels, the theory of science, and our wonderful mother, Mrs. Cornelia Altieri.

Schaber (February 27, 2014). Ask an autistic #5. What is ABA?

What is the purpose of ABA therapy? Is ABA good for Autistic children? Is there a link between ABA and PTSD? What's the alternative? Answers to all of these questions and more in this episode of Ask an Autistic!... The use of operant conditioning on children, especially on autistic children, is, to me, sickening.... ABA is all about making autistic children look as neurotypical as possible.... ABA therapy is really shallow. Not teaching them how to grow and thrive as an autistic person in a neurotypical world, but to make them look normal. So much ABA therapy focuses on things like table readiness, you know, sitting perfectly still, on not stimming, on behaviors that are just misunderstood, and never at any point in the history of ABA did anybody think to ask an autistic person why they stim, what is going on with them, what they would like to be learning.... Now we're moving in the direction where we're understanding autism better through asking autistic people about it.... Behaviorism really just relies on the observations of neurotypical researchers and doctors.... What may seem simply bothersome or strange looking to you, like hand-flapping, is necessary and an important self-regulation tool to autistic children. Anecdotally, it's quite sad, but the use of consequences and punishment and rewards for "doing it right" in ABA therapy can lead to some severe mental and emotional issues for children who later become mentally and emotionally damaged autistic adults; because what you're teaching children through ABA therapy is that who they are is wrong and bad and that the way that they move is shameful and needs to be changed. See ABA therapy doesn't focus on helping the autistic child, working with their autism. In ABA when you're learning skills like "point to the blue card" or "don't stim," those aren't skills that are going to help an autistic child later on in life.

[Edit note: ABA Leaks agrees with Schaber that the entire history of ABA never once asked autistic people what we think about our own lives, however she is not explaining ABA properly or completely, even though she does grasp the idea of consequence in itself. See Pavlov (1927) and Skinner (1938) editorial comments below. ABA includes both classical and operant conditioning, not just operant, as she says, and the contingencies ABA assesses and manipulates consist of the Antecedents, the Behaviors, and the Consequences (ABCs), not just the consequence manipulations she limits herself to. In addition, when she says that the autistic child is the operant, she misses the boat. The child is the organism or the subject involved in the operant conditioning, which involves the behavioral "operation" of the organism upon the environment though action and then, in turn, the environmental consequences, the addition or removal of appetitive or aversive stimuli and events, affect the child's behavior strength. ABA almost always uses the rate of behavior as the indicator of strength, although, for example, latency, or a quick response post antecedent can indicate more strength than a more delayed reaction. So the notion of the operant is more complex than the equation of the child with the word "operant." However, on the ethical side, and that is much more important than the scientific understanding of ABA, from our perspective, she lambasts ABA and pro-ABA quite effectively, and yet diplomatically in her soft-spoken way. It was wonderful to hear her analysis once again. The TRUTH about ABA will bankrupt them in the end. She finishes with an astute discussion of the PTSD which ABA provokes and denies they provoke, to their own peril, it shall be. DA]

2013

Altieri (May 7, 2013). This is the Behavioral Ethics speech I gave our Mom Cornelia Altieri's friends and family at her funeral reception.

TasiaM (April 12, 2013). Changing the child vs. helping the child. In Life his Way blog, Thriving with Autism blog.

[Edit note: Cleverly, Tasia doesn't call any of the misguided "therapies" s/he criticizes "ABA therapy," which is an oxymoron anyway, a contradiction of terms, since therapy is not something that demands, which ABA always does. It even "treats for escape" from their asinine "demands." Of course, s/he's describing a list of more than one so-called "therapies," by practitioners whom we at ABA Leaks call pseudo-professionals, in accordance with how s/he pens this excellent post. Besides, ABA bully behavior Controllers constantly pretend to ignore us, their proudly-identified CounterControllers, to a fault. They still refuse to include ABA-provoked trauma reports in their so-called "data," as far as we know, which is why they're clearly a pseudoscience. Anyhow, read in block quotes below how well Tasia, an autism parent, accepts young people's non-verbal autism and eagerly learns, a bit at a time, how their actions communicate, which is a method ABA sometimes knows exists, yet still argues against, quite ineffectively, of course, even though non-punitive Positive Behavior Support (PBS) leaders LaVigna, BCBA, and Donnellan (1986) tried to teach highly-punitive ABA how behavior is communication, but to no avail. ABA won't even listen to them, so it seems, when push comes to shove between the two conflicting groups, ABA and PBS. See here how they differ and battle. See Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) CEO Jim Carr (2002) claim non-punitive PBS is a part of highly-punitive ABA. Then he lambasts PBS as a bunch of troublemakers anyway. Of all people, Carr cites Ronald van Houghton, board member of the Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful electric skin shock. Click this paragraph's link to read it all. Tasia tells her autism mother and father peers how to accept autism nonverbal ways of communicating and then turn to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to advocate to systems-wide accommodations for the autistic way. On the other hand, ABA Leaks has found that the Behavior Analyst Certification Board never requires and college coursework in Disability Studies, so they no very little about the "reasonable accommodations" the ADA requires of them all, but to no avail, of course, once again. Since ABA is all about coercion into normalcy and obedience trainings, electric grid floor Skinner Box lab rat torture and Doggie style, diabetic eating habit, candy morsels paired with clickers. DA]

Something I keep in mind when considering therapies and the like: do I want this for my child, or do I want this for others? Life skills benefit the child and can be taught without any implication that the child is "lesser" for not having them. Social skills are another story and that’s where acceptance comes more into play. Example: autistic kids are often not allowed to stim. Stimming (flapping, rocking, pacing, fidgeting) is an important tool for self-regulation. Stopping his stims does not benefit the child in any way; in fact, it hurts him and is counter-productive. (Self-injurious stims are another matter, but those can be redirected instead of suppressed.)

But conventional thinking says that stimming is bad so they try to make it go away. Why is it bad? Because it makes other people uncomfortable. This is what most social therapies are about: teaching the autistic child to behave in such a way that makes everyone else feel comfortable. Teaching him to do and say and even think the “right” things. (Yes, social training does actually tell them what they should be thinking.)

This is the sort of thing that the acceptance movement protests. Autism has its own culture and assuming positive intent is central to it. While my autistic friends are direct and blunt, and they really can’t be any other way, they are generally not hurtful. It’s my responsibility to not read emotion into their words that isn’t there. Acceptance means that I take them as they are, rather than insisting that they change the way they talk to me. It means I don’t tell them to stop flapping because it’s distracting; instead I find my own ways to stay focused (and it works great that in autistic culture, I can look away without being called rude!). It means I understand that they are working hard every day to process the world and I don’t ask them to work even harder just to make me feel comfortable. Actually, as long as I am accepting, I feel perfectly comfortable. Of course we all want to maximize our kids’ potential. When we work toward that goal with acceptance, we see autism as simply a part of who they are, not something to be trained out of them.

Méndez (March 12, 2013). United Nations. General Assembly. Human Rights Council. Twenty-second session. Agenda item three. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, including the right to development. Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.

Therefore and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur determines that the rights of the students of the JRC (Judge Rotenberg Center) subjected to Level III Aversive Interventions by means of electric shock and physical means of restraints have been violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards (p. 85).

Ryan (January 30, 2013). The cost of (ABA) compliance is unreasonable.

2012

Moran (November 29, 2012). Harsh discipline in schools across the country.

Wyatt et al. (August 7, 2012). Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Judge Rotenberg Center, private special education school program review. Report of findings.

Anon (August 2, 2012). Kagan and Anon (August 2, 2012). Spiegel interview with Jerome Kagan. What about tutoring instead of pills?

Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is one of the world's leading experts in child development. In a Spiegel interview, he offers a scathing critique of the mental-health establishment and pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of incorrectly classifying millions as mentally ill out of self-interest and greed.

Brill (July 19, 2012). Time out vs. time in: What's the difference?

Cat (May 27, 2012). The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) and the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) protest with the Seattle Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN).

Beaudet (April 24, 2012). Rotenberg trial ends with settlement; former student's mom vows to keep fighting.

Beaudet (April 23, 2012). Jury gets Rotenberg's case, must decide whether shocks were treatment.

Beaudet (April 20, 2012). JRC expert admits shocks didn't work but says the damage was minimal.

Beaudet (April 19, 2012). Shocked teen was cared for, the school says.

Beaudet (April 18, 2012). Gov. Patrick supports shock ban, legislation so far has stalled in House.

Beaudet (April 17, 2012). Restraints needed for safety, doc says.

Beaudet (April 13, 2012). Son not the same since shocks, Mom says.

Beaudet (April 12, 2012). Staff at shock school tried to help teenager, lawyers say.

Beaudet (April 11, 2012). Shocks given at Rotenberg Center were "harming" autistic teen, expert testifies.

Beaudet (April 10, 2012). Graphic video of a teen being restrained and shocked played in court.

Beaudet (April 8, 2012). The state raised concerns at shock school trial of youth and shocked to start Monday.

2011

Altieri (August 20, 2011). This is how to gain the consent of the recipients of behavioral interventions.

Altieri (August 14, 2011). Here's a history of ABA's operant conditioning experiments on non-disabled adult populations.

Altieri (August 1, 2011). A token economy can change teacher behaviors rather than students?

Altieri (July 18, 2011). ABA punished slouching with noise.

Altieri (July 15, 2011). ABA did its extremely painful electric skin shock to cigarette smokers.

2010

Hinman, Brown (June 30, 2010). The UN calls shock treatment at Massachusetts school torture.

Ahern, Rosenthal (April 30, 2010). Torture not treatment: Electric shock and long-term restraint in the United States on children and adults with disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center: Urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture presented by Mental Disability Rights International.

2009

Dawson (May 17, 2009). Saving autistics and the world: Skin shock at the 2009 ABA convention.

Altieri (April 11, 2009). The Guernsey (March 3, 2009) New York Times article that put "Rewards for Students Under a Microscope" presents a worthwhile report of the debate among educators and psychologists on the merits of school incentive systems such as paying children to do good work.

Dawson (January 26, 2009). The origins of ABA-based autism interventions.

2008

Altieri (July 21, 2008). Why can't we have a marriage of ethics and behavioral sciences?

2007

Altieri (December 27, 2007). In the Matter of M. R. the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that people with disabilities have the legal right to self-determination.

Bobitech et al. (March 3, 2007). Massachusetts Department of Education: Judge Rotenberg Educational Center: Private special education school program review. Report of findings.

Altieri (March 4, 2007). The first issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) set the stage for ABA's long-term, highly-unethical behavior.

Altieri (February 6, 2007). Parents, it's okay to reward your children when they do their homework, if that works and they like it.

Altieri (January 19, 2007). B. F. Skinner studied squirrels and ants before he discovered the extinction curve with lab rats.

Altieri (January 19, 2007). Teachers, there's no need for punishment and correction to gain hand-raising during calm, peaceful classroom management.

Altieri (January 18, 2007). Stop retaliation against "bad" behavior. Don't reward it in the first place.

Altieri (January 15, 2007). Here's the problem with punishment.

2004

Dawson (January 18, 2004). The misbehavior of the behaviorists: Ethical challenges to the autism-ABA industry.

1999

King, King (December 24, 1999). An open letter to families considering Intensive Behavioral Therapy for their child with autism. Part 1. [Wayback machine date.]

King, King (December 24, 1999). An open letter to families considering Intensive Behavioral Therapy for their child with autism. Part 1. [Authors named.]

King, King (December 24, 1999). An open letter to families considering Intensive Behavioral Therapy for their child with autism. Part 2. [Wayback machine date.]

King, King (December 24, 1999). An open letter to families considering Intensive Behavioral Therapy for their child with autism. Part 2. [Authors named.]

Anon (December 24, 1999). Black and blue, restraint marks, nightmares, depression.

Our child was enrolled in an Applied Behavioral Analysis program at our local University. He started when he was three and a half. The psychologist said he could cure him in two years then he would go to regular elementary school. Little did we know we were starting the nightmare of his and our lives. Our child was subjected to hours of pointless tasks for the next three years. We were duped into believing that ABA was the only road to recovery for children with autism. So we kept him there.... All in the name of research.

Anon (December 24, 1999). Forced to stand for however long.

By the second month of his so-called kindergarten we were told our son needed a Behavior Management Plan. We were alright with that, except that the reason for this plan was due to him refusing to take naps. This was a sore spot with us because we had already requested numerous times that our hyperactive child not be forced to take naps. This would interfere with his bedtime which would in turn effected his behavior during the school day.... Their idea of basket hold was putting the child in a cushioned chair with a teacher or aide behind the chair with their arms around my son's chest and holding him that way.... She would put the papers he was to do on his desk, tell him to do his work, and walk away. He would then be punished if he didn't get all of his work done by having his chair removed and forced to stand for however long the teacher thought was sufficient. I know this because I have walked in the classroom and seen it myself with not only my child, but others as well.... We also began to notice our son was fighting us every morning when it was time to get ready for school. Added on top of this, was his constant refusal to go to school. He consistently told us "NO" all the way to school every morning. This behavior was starting to worry us because he was so adamant about it. We also noticed that there were no more notes coming home from the teacher saying how he did that day or even what he did each day. The color coded behavior charts begun at the beginning of the year also ceased to exist. If we didn't go inside and pump the teacher for information, we never knew how things were going.... One time in particular I walked in and found him sitting in the "timeout cave" crying. When I asked what he did to be put in time out I was told he wouldn't do his work and was being fussy. As soon as the teacher let him get up he came running to me putting my hand over his ear and kept saying "OUCH". It was not hard to understand that his ear was hurting. You could also tell by just touching the child that he was running a fever. I informed this so-called teacher and the aide that he was burning up and he was complaining of his ear and all they had to say was "Well, they never thought about that!". I have told them on many occasions that if our son became a problem or was ill to just call me. I was always home, I am a stay-at-home mom. But I never once received one phone call from that place, but yet arrived many times to find my child ill.... She told us that every one of these "takedowns" were done because our son would not lay down for nap time, something we had vehemently protested to from the very beginning. If you haven't noticed by now, the parents' wishes and desires for how their children are treated and taught do NOT matter to the staff or administration at this school.... The teachers and aides also would take the kids food and throw it away for insignificant reasons such as they wanted to eat their dessert first or they would not keep their napkins in their laps while eating (the principal's pet peeve). Now this too explained our son's behavior when he would come home and eat everything he could find. The child was starving and he was not the only child behaving this way at the school. We find it hard to believe that these are acceptable teaching/punishment methods for disabled children.

Anon (December 24, 1999). Now she cries uncontrollably.

My daughter is 11. A loving, warm, non-verbal child, with autism. She also has what I now firmly believe is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following a year of intense discrete trials and restraints [ABA]. She has been wrapped in a blanket and forced to carry the blanket with her throughout her schooling. She has been basket hold restrained, and placed in a prone take-down 2 person restraint in order to allow a consultant to determine if the classroom staff could do the move on a child her size. She has been forced to 'work through tantrums' hand over hand, and finally was basket hold restrained and forced to work through a 'tantrum' by a strange male consultant. Now she is hysterical and cries uncontrollably whenever she goes near the school. This morning she 'went off' upon being coaxed out of bed, and refused to leave her room. Why is she somehow considered less human because of her disability? Why do the protections afforded other children under the law not apply to her? Why did I let any of this happen? What part of 'help me' did none of us understand? Thank you for being here, and I pray the message is heard.

Anon (December 24, 1999). Our real nightmare: extinction.

Why is an autistic child treated like they do not have any emotions? Trying mechanically to break them out of their world? ... At 5 years old we placed our son in a very behaviorally based autistic program. This is where our real nightmare began. Our son underwent a year and a half of abusive treatment emotionally and physically. Our son was taught by discrete trials. He began exhibiting self injurious behaviors. He was made to repeat a task over and over again when he clearly couldn't and did not want to do the tasks. He would scream, hit himself in the head, bite himself and complete the task all at the same time. The professionals told my husband and I that if we addressed this behavior he would end up in a head helmet and restraints and be completely uncontrollable. They spoke of the treatment of "extinction." A "Lovaas" based treatment that helped many children. The torture continued. The staff of the school would count how many times my son hit himself in a day and their only goal was for him to complete the task and not to let him get any attention for the noncompliance.... One day it finally hit us and we marched in the school and let everyone know exactly how we felt. Some of the staff were in tears. Some denied any wrong doing. Needless to say, we removed Anthony from the school. It took 3 months of sitting with Anthony at a table while he screamed any time we even tried to play with him or do anything school related. He was so abused and traumatized. We sat and sat with him. He had no trust left. We tried another school where we put in his IEP that he was not allowed to hit himself. The staff failed again by forcing him to do things that he was uncomfortable with and instead of letting him hit himself they would restrain him, telling me that they couldn't control him. My son has been home schooled for 9 months by a wonderful teacher. I don't think we will ever put Anthony back in a school again. He is severely traumatized by what happened to him. He has made so much progress. He lives with the trauma but is so very happy now. He has not injured himself in 9 months.

South African Mom (December 24, 1999). There are wonderful, caring professionals and caregivers in all societies. We need their testimonies against abusive colleagues to help protect our children.

From the very beginning we felt uncomfortable with its cold, clinical atmosphere. Autism was never discussed with us, nor any of the bizarre methods of punishment openly used. Our consent to use it was never requested, nor given. When we queried it, we were assured that it was internationally approved Behavior Modification techniques. When we requested them to stop its use with our son, we were ignored. Our refusal to re-enforce it at home earned us the label of difficult, uncooperative parents. Our ignorance and trust were violated at the time when we were emotionally not able to retaliate hard enough. The following punishment was not only used as a last resort to curb violence or aggression, but for any minor or insignificant transgression. The behavior of the autistic child was continually targeted instead of the child 's inability to communicate. My son was even restrained on the floor when he was ill. His teacher's response was that sick children also needed to behave. Another teacher kindly assured me that these methods would have devastating psychological effects on a normal child, but that autistic children suffered no such side effects. Floor restraints used can last for up to 3 hours. Children are held face down with their arms pinned behind their backs, or they are laid down on their backs with their arms pinned above their heads. In both instances they are straddled by at least one, but sometimes more, staff members. This position is maintained until the child calms down and complies.... Children are tied to their chairs for refusing to sit or when they are becoming very hyperactive. Whilst I sympathize with staff who sometimes need to cope without the necessary Aides, I believe that authorities need expert advice on its use and need to provide more human resources. I have often seen children tied down in chairs for hours. Sometimes they simply walk with the chair still tied to them. A witness told me that her son's hands were even tied behind his back, while he was tied to a chair, to force him to lick a lollipop. She has since removed her son from the school.... Cold showers were suggested to me as a means of potty training my son, which I obviously refused to do. Cold showers are used to punish children who wet or soil themselves, or for those who smear feces. It is also used to subdue difficult behavior. We once witnessed a hysterical 10-year old boy being carried to the hostel by two male staff members for a cold shower to calm him down. The school principal states in a letter to the Human Rights Commission that "the staff has to clean up the mess" and that there is no point in rewarding a child with a nice warm shower. He accuses us of having no empathy with the situation.... There are wonderful, caring professionals and caregivers in all societies. We need their testimonies against abusive colleagues to help protect our children. It will never stop as long as colleagues protect one another instead of the disabled person placed in their care by trusting but ignorant parents. It is not only a violation of our children's rights, but also of ours. My son was placed with a new teacher at the beginning of 1999. His behavior has improved so much. He is once again calm and happy and has made other progress as well. A simple thank you to this teacher hardly seems adequate.

Anon (December 24, 1999). This caused our daughter to go catatonic.

The next year of school our daughter was given [ABA] Discrete Trial Training [DTT] for a whole year. She was isolated all day doing this and made to do things over and over again. She would become violent and I would have to go to the school to get her. She was taught things that a young preschool child would be taught not a 14 year old at the time. (My daughter was taught her ABC's when she finished 5th grade work and received A's from being mainstreamed.) This finally caused our daughter to go catatonic on us and stay in a depression that lasted over 5 months. (A severe depression that with our support she came out of).

Anon (December 24, 1999). Tied to a chair.

Now, try to imagine my shock when I arrived at my daughter's preschool class to pick her up after school and was informed by her teachers that they had restrained her in a chair because she wouldn't cooperate with their requests. The chair was pointed out to me. It was a wooden, high back chair, no padding, with approximately six or eight belt-like straps strategically placed for restraining.... She pulled my daughter off my leg and walked away with her screaming and grabbing for me. I reluctantly left, but I figured this teacher has been doing this for years and probably knows what she is talking about. I could hear my daughter's screams continuing as I left the school. Those screams still haunt me.... At the end of the day I couldn't wait to pick my daughter up, afraid that she cried the whole time she was there. But when I arrived, she was scribbling on some paper and seemed very content. I thought, maybe I had just overreacted. The teacher told me that each day would get easier for my daughter, this type of reaction was normal. Things didn't get easier. Each day progressively got worse. My daughter's behaviors at home became more aggressive and violent. Her sleep pattern was completely off. I brought my concerns up to her teacher. The teacher's response was, "Well, maybe there are problems at home, because your daughter doesn't act that way here."... The reports that I was getting from the teacher and the school staff didn't meet up to what we knew about our daughter. They said that she would play with the other children. We knew that wasn't true. They said that she was interacting and taking turns during their circle time. Again we knew our child well enough to know that was absolutely false. We started to get reports from the teacher and teacher's aide, that they had to restrain my daughter because of her behaviors. At that point I assumed that they were using a professionally approved restraint method. I didn't think to ask. That's my fault. My daughter started to wet her pants at school. (She had never wet her pants before). I was told that she was wetting her pants when the speech therapist tried to work with her. It got to the point that we knew every time the speech therapist worked with her. She came home with wet pants. I asked the teacher why she was wetting her pants every time the speech therapist worked with my daughter. I was told that the therapist had to restrain her because she wouldn't do what she was asked. This continued and I started becoming more aggressive and wanting answers. I asked them to change the therapists techniques. They told me to just send more clothes. One day I went to pick my daughter up after school, and again her pants were wet. I told the teacher that this was getting out of hand. My daughter had started wetting her pants at home now, and her behaviors were becoming out of control. I will never forget this one.... The teacher looked at me and said, "I was told by the Director of Special Ed, that they need a copy of your child's adoption records to prove that the adoption is final." (I had never told the teacher that my children were adopted. That we kept to ourselves for the privacy of my children). I told her that adoption records were court sealed documents and I would be damned if they ever saw a copy of them. Things from there just got worse. My daughter came home home one day throwing up playground pebbles and had more then a handful in her pants. They had been there awhile, because they had rubbed her raw. The school's response. "We can't watch what every child puts in their mouth or pants when they are on the playground."

Anon, Anon (December 24, 1999). Total personality change.

After going over (ABA) ABC sheets meant for his doctor I found that they had been restraining him since November.... The school had also video taped our son without our permission. I was able to obtain the tapes one of which is edited. In it you can see the aide digging her fingers into the pressure points on his shoulders, holding him in a chair. After an edited area on the tape you can see our son exhibiting extreme anxiety--to a degree we have never seen before.... We are trying to find a pro bono lawyer to represent us in hearing.... The reason for the response from our son is the teacher's, principal's, etc., unreasonable insistence of total control and compliance. When they would try to force him to do the discrete trials and ABA, he would respond and eventually it became any time they tried to get him to do anything.

Bowden (December 24, 1999). Multiple bruises on her body.

Abbie began to come home from school with multiple bruises on her body, red rashes on her face and scratches and cuts. Her home health aide nurse documented all of this.... Right now I am trying to figure out what exactly the teacher was doing in the videos. Many people think it was some sort of version of something called ABA. According to my research there may be some link to this and the use of restraints. The teacher in question and the Special Needs Director said this program and what they were doing with my child has a link to a well-known school that is considered an expert in the field of ABA.

1994

Chung (March 3, 1994). Eye to Eye with Connie Chung. Segments on the Behavior Research Institute (BRI) which uses non-traditional means to treat behavior problems in children. [Edit note: The Judge Rotenberg Center used to be called the BRI. DA]

Chung (March 3, 1994) in Ahern, Rosenthal (2010 pp. cover, i, iii). JRC "child face-down on a four-point restraint board attached to electric shock device."

Chung (March 3, 1994) in Ahern, Rosenthal (2010 pp. i, iii). JRC "child restrained at waist, arms, chest, groin, and feet in an isolation room."

Chung (March 3, 1994) in Ahern, Rosenthal (2010 pp. i, iii). JRC's "leg cuffs used to restrain children in chairs."

Israel, Marsh (April 19, 1994). Patent. Apparatus for administering electrical aversive stimulus and associated method.

1985

Kahn (November 26, 1985). Dr. Hurt. The aversive therapist and his painful record.

Deitz (October 17, 1985). Psychologist B. F. Skinner comes to the defense of autistic center leader.

1974

Rekers, Lovaas (June 1, 1974). Behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child.

1971

Kircher, Pear, Martin (September 1, 1971). Shock as punishment in a picture-naming task with retarded children.

1968

Bear, Wolf, Risley (March 1, 1968). Some current dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis. [Edit note: This paper set the technological standards for the ABA era to come. It has been cited in 3192 academic papers (as of May 21, 2017). It explicitly valued heterosexuality, thus implicitly devalued homosexuality (p. 96). It also set ABA's highly-unethical methodology by which ABA usually misjudges behaviors as problematic. ABA "decelerates problem behaviors of social importance" by any means necessary using the popular norm of the day standard. DA]

Risley (March 1, 1968). The effects and side effects of punishing the autistic behaviors of a deviant child. ABA Leaks abstract. He skin shocked "subject S, a six-year-old girl who was hyperactive and exhibited bizarre behaviors" because she climbed on the family furniture.

[Edit note: Risley is the same ABA trend-setter from Baer, Wolf, Risley (1968). In lieu of torture, he could have bolted the bookshelf to the wall, removed it from the home, put monkey bars on the property, and train her to be a gymnast. Instead humane treatment, he deemed her climbing up the precious family furniture to be a "problem of social importance" and claimed he had successfully and effectively treated the problem. There is no followup report on this case to see if he really did keep her off the furniture over the long-term. This is typical of ABA articles which do single-subject, short-term case studies, claim success, and then that's the end of the report. ABA Leaks would like to meet actual survivors of any of ABA's academic studies to see how they felt about the attempted behavior modifications and to learn how their stories really did turn out. DA]

1967

Boring and Lindzey (January 1, 1967). B. F. Skinner declared his atheism, as compiled by Gaylor (retrieved May 23, 2017, from Freedom From Religion Foundation).

My Grandmother Skinner made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove. In a traveling magician's show I saw a devil complete with horns and barbed tail, and I lay awake all that night in an agony of fear. Miss Graves (a teacher), though a devout Christian, was liberal. She explained, for example, that one might interpret the miracles in the Bible as figures of speech... Within a year I had gone to Miss Graves to tell her that I no longer believed in God. 'I know,' she said, 'I have been through that myself.' But her strategy misfired: I never went through it.

[Edit note: So then why are there so many faithful Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu behavior analysts? ABA Leaks witnesses this in their Facebook and Twitter profiles, by their own admissions. Do they pray on the Sabbath and reject their faith during the work week, as Peter denied he knew Jesus three times as the cock crowed as Jesus predicted he would? The Behavior Analysis Certification Board (Fourth Edition Task List, III, FK-03, Determinism) requires their ABAers to act as though freedom were a delusion, as they must "behave in accordance with the philosophical assumptions of behavior analysis" and follow Skinner's radical behavioral determinism, his stubborn and short-sited denial of the existence of freedom and free will. This stems from his atheism. The notion of free will stems from Catholicism and before. Of course, atheists, agnostics, and Unitarians are justified in arguing that extremists oppose one another's religions and sects while their same-faith moderates are complicit in their silences over their own orthodox fundamentalist hatreds and intolerances, who all say to their foes, we're right and you're wrong, with sabers rattling and battle axes drawn, or else they charge and draw blood, as in the Medieval European battles between Protestants and Catholics and the lopsided war between overpowering Israel and protesting Palestine and as George Bush II (September 17, 2001) declared he was on a "(religious) crusade" against terrorist and issued his preemptive strike on Iraq, who did nothing to provoke us, despite his claims to the contrary. See also Altieri (September 30, 2014) and Skinner (January 1, 1971/1976). DA]

1965

Grant (May 7, 1965). Screams, slaps, and love. A surprising shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples.

1961

Breland and Breland (November 1, 1961). The misbehavior of organisms.

1949

Fuller (October 1, 1949). Operant conditioning of a vegetative human organism. [Edit note. This is the first known case of what would become ABA coercions upon people instead of non-human animals. ABA has been calling its so-called "abnormal" victims "deviants," in one way or another, now, from 1949 to 2107, continuously, for precisely 68 years, through the disability rights movements, including the actually autistic led "autism acceptance" and "autism appreciation" "Autism Pride Day and Neurodiversity Movement under "Autism Is Beautiful." We are autistics! We use identity-first language to show how we love ourselves AS autistics. As a man says "I am a man" and not I am a man who shamefully happens to be a man." Yet look. ABA Controllers always push person-first language down our throats. One only look at the calling is individuals or children on the autism spectrum. There's all the proof you need to see that ABA does not listen to autistics speaking! DA]

1938

Skinner (January 1, 1938). The behavior of organisms.

[Edit note: Food deprived rat experiments and paw slaps. Tinkerer Skinner's first book covering his operant conditioning discoveries. The electromechanical "operant conditioning chamber" contained a stylus moving up a pip with each lever press as reinforced with morsel of grain to underweight (hungry) lab rats which drew a behavior curve of response over unit of time on a large sheet of paper mounted on a slowly revolving drum with each lever press triggering the mechanical operation of a food delivery system, while the sound of the system preceded the food. It came to be called the "Skinner box" although he claimed he did not select that name himself.] As opposed to the simultaneous pairing of stimuli in Pavlov's classical conditioning, the Skinner's operant conditioning was sequential. The "organism" operated on the environment which immediately produced a consequence, the independent variable (cause) the addition or subtraction of aversive or appetitive stimuli or events which caused a an increase of decrease in the subsequent rate of behavior, the dependent variable (effect), which he used as a sign of behavior strength under which the entire body, and not just the brain, had learned. This combination of conditioning techniques forms the basis of all ABA as we know it today. However, ABA Leaks argues that just because we know how to drop an atomic bomb, that does not mean that we ought to do it, as so it goes with these behavioral machinations. That's why ABAers are known to divorce quickly. Behavior control is unnecessarily a way of life for them, barren of dignity, freedom, ethics, and decency, like a clock with the hands of clock the hands of the Controllers. DA]

1927

Pavlov (January 1, 1927). Conditioned reflexes. An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex.

[Edit note: Russian Pavlov cut holes in dog's cheeks to collect and measure their drippings of saliva. Then he showed them meat and rang a tone or a metronome together. Dogs salivated to the pairing. Then he withdrew the meat and sounded the tone. Dogs salivated to the tone, while it had been a neutral stimulus with relation to saliva, under this classical conditioning, pairing stimuli together to simultaneously gain an effect, subsequently the tone would become the conditioned stimulus. DA]

ABA Leaks catches their so-called "problem behavior" redhanded. Two massive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) networks vie for industry-wide domination. ABA dude calls it a "hostile takeover." Ha!

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Jones (2011), who has the highest ranking Board Certified Behavior Analyst-D (PhD) degree possible, reported intensive petty bickering among Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) behavior controllers between the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) and the Ass. for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI).

The CEO of the Ass. is now Maria Malott. According to a double agent counterspy which ABA Leaks has planted inside of ABA's inner chamber walls, she divorced the head skin shocker guy Dick Malott. She likes it too. Who shocked whom first in their marriage? Just kidding, of course. Apparently infinite regressions of behavior modifications spiral out of control when one manipulator marries another. Who would have thunk it?

Is anyone surprised that the behavior control freaks who call everyone else deviants except for themselves should be fighting, two mammoth groups, one with another? Not ABA Leaks. That's for certain. What a laugh! We couldn't imagine a better drama!

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Jones (2011) said, "I am not the only person asking this question these days. Even behavior analysts who do not usually pay much attention to the field’s organizational issues and politics are beginning to wonder. In just the last year, the following events have occurred."

"A special presentation was held outside the 2010 ABAI convention in which representatives of three state organizations discussed problems resulting from ABAI’s involvement in their public policy initiatives."

#2 is Maria Malott CEO of ABAI who approves skin shock "torture" for all of ABAI, and #4, her ex-husband Dick Malott who told this Reward and Consent blogger on the phone that Glenda "the good witch" Crookes staff shocks are ineffective because the delay is too long. Direct staff notify the control room they want to shock a "student." Then they need to wait until they get the order from Crookes and company.

Director of the Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful electric ABA skin shock torture Glenda "the Good Witch" Crooked (Oops. Crookes. Keyboard slip of the finger.) This ain't no ECT brain shock of psychiatry. This is the GED. ABA brags: If it didn't hurt it wouldn't be so "effective." ABA Leaks caught them shocking one another in the middle of their internecine battles. That's a joke, of course. Ouch!

Glenda Crooked who made $370,000 (JRC IRS Form 990 p. 7) one year, sets her sights on her next resident, Dorothy of Kansas, who wants to go home.

This was our hero, Mr. Andre McCollins, who became one of many actual Glenda Crookes skin shock victims during ABA's so called "effective science." The United Nations calls them torturers.

This was the founder of ABA's JRC of extremely painful electric skin shock torture, a B. F. Skinner's pupil and Harvard, Dr. Matty Israel, the looniest apple that spoils the whole bunch rotten. Look! The guy's on his Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy in his ABA funny farm.

"Representatives of the field’s experimental interests complained in a letter to the ABAI Executive Council (EC) about excessive attention to practitioner interests by ABAI."

B. F. Skinner was depriving its pigeon of food so it could "effectively" modify his or her behavior with pellets of grain.

He accepted a Lifetime Contribution to Psychology award from the American Psycho. Ass. and told the cognitivists how unintelligent they were because they studied thoughts instead of behavior. That one went over like a led balloon.

Jackie Gleason stars as B. F. Skinner discovering reinforcement of rat behavior telling his wife how he how proud he is of himself.

BF Skinner had two daughters. He raise Debby in a Skinner Box. He did not raise Julie in a Skinner Box. Julie wanted to get inside the box. She was not allowed. Julie ripped open the box and then the girls started fighting. Just kidding.

Deborah Skinner Buzan (2004) wrote, "I was not a lab rat." So. What's the point? We know she was not a rat.

Julie Skinner Vargas (right) said, "Daddy didn't make an 'Heir Crib.'" No. No. It's properly called an 'Air Crib.' If he could put Aunt Debbie in box, well then I should put my kids in a box, too. It's only the effective way to be a Mommy. "If you don't eat your meat, you won't get any putting. How can you get your pudding if you don't eat your meat!" (Pink Floyd in the Wall)

Julie and Debbie

Skinner family

ABAI CEO Maria Malott dominates Little Miss Muffet who sat on her tuffet Jamey Carr CEO of the Behavioral Analysis Certification Boring Board in submission wrestling leg squeeze contingent upon Jamey's inappropriate verbal behavior who called Malott a "doorknob." Well she had a fit and then the match began.

"The ABAI Executive Council announced that henceforth ABAI would focus on core concerns related to the scientific and scholarly basis of the field. ABAI also withdrew from a two-year negotiation with BACB attempting to resolve differences in their model licensing acts."

Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968), closeted homosexuals, set the popular-norm-of-the-day standard for all ABA as they pronounced "Straight is good! Gay is bad!" and then slapped each other on the butts and then decided to electroshock the hell out of gay men and autistics whom they promised to cure. Well they failed miserably.

Donny Baer

Monstrose Wolf

Todd "the sadist" Risley (1968) who shocked a small autistic girl for climbing on the precious family furniture instead of taking her out to a gymnastics gym, issue 1 (1) of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA), while Skinner let it happen. He was on the original JABA Board of Editors, along with O. Ivar Lovaas, who also shocked the hell out of a little autistic girl simply because she was not "normal", as he decided autism would be a real "cash cow" for ABA and all the other ABA clone sheeple followed them. They are a cult. They do not allow public dissent. Jones (2011), no doubt, got his butt fried for opening this ABA can of worms for all the world to see.

This is B. F. Skinner preparing to shock the hell out of a rat. He wanted to learn how to effectively shock gays and autistics so he practiced first with rats. Here he is in the Boston Globe praising his emotionally retarded Harvard PhD pupil Matty Israel, the founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center of extremely painful ABA skin shock, what all ABA publicly approves, as they fight among their pompous scientific meetings over how to handle their pathetic reputation over skin shock. "Uh oh! Another survivor is speaking and she's unchained! How are we supposed to stop her now?"

"An invited panel discussion referring to 'a hostile takeover' by the BACB was scheduled for the 2011 ABAI convention, although its title and participants were subsequently revised."

"The president of ABAI resigned in open protest of ABAI governance problems."

The CEO of ABAI said, "Put up your dukes BACB, you greedy mother fuckers!"

Here s/he is again, soon before he resigns.

"A member of the ABAI Practice Board circulated a letter in response to that resignation accusing the BACB of being interested primarily in making money and trying to take over ABAI."

This is what a typical neurotypical ABA board meeting looks like, any of them.

"In an address at an ABA convention many years ago, Skinner referred to our field with the Shakespearean phrase, 'We happy few…', and we did seem happy then. Now, not so much."

During his speech the CEO of the BACB comrades prepares to throw a shoe at the CEO of BACB comrades at the latest ABAI Convention. Then he said, "Pardon my temper. Here will you accept a glass of cherry Kool-Aid? I have a glass of milk from the bottom of the milk carton. Maybe our drinks will help us calm our big, fat, hardened nerves so we can find an amicable solution to our dispute."

She's speaking again! Jennifer Msumba, Applied Behavior Analysis skin shock torture victim, reports on her trauma, yet ABA refuses to listen.

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Jennifer Msumba, surprisingly, is speaking again about it. She gives ABA an earful, and ABA does not listen. She's been quiet, publicly, for a while, for good reason, probably, as she had been suing them. She sounds great. She deserves an immense medal for her courage to speak out again.

She is a victim of severe Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) torture. Msumba (December 31, 2016) said she has nightmares every single day because of ABA's Judge Rotenberg Center skin shockers.

This is clear anecdotal self-reported evidence of ABA-provoked Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), yet ABA institutions will not listen.

She calls her next video: "What are my nightmares about? The Judge Rotenberg Center." ABAers, we know you read these posts. Be advised. Here, Msumba (February 16, 2107) shows she is not afraid to name the names of her abusers and talk straight at them. She's amazing and heroic! She explains precisely what they did to her. This time she "pinpoints" their behaviors, instead of the other way around. ABA, it's time for your karma as more survivors speak! We are turning to attorneys to stop you by all legal and ethical means necessary.

Maria Malott, CEO, of the Ass. for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) will not return phone calls by David Altieri, ABA Leaks founder, about her ABAI's official approval the the ABA skin shockers. Neither will the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) return his phone calls about the presence of their Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) in the JRC staff and board. BACB has blocked Altieri in Twitter. ABAI has banished him from their ABAI Facebook group. Malott never told him what he said that was such a big sin, even though he asked her to explain it by way of email.

ABA Leaks concludes that a direct cause of the "shock treatment" in Chechnya's gay concentration camps is the pseudoscience cult called Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).

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[Ed. note: This post contains the shorter version of this breaking analytical report. A lengthier, fully-cited academic version is here.]

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) never stopped its extremely painful electric skin shock "treatment" against us autistics. ABA did it to gays. They stopped. They're doing it again, in the center of the world's current concentration camps in Chechnya, Russia, so we argue beyond any reasonable doubt to us, the ABA Leaks team of disabled investigators.

ABA is a cult that tries to control behaviors by adding and removing punishers and reinforcers such as forced ammonia inhalations and candy.

They want to shock the autism out of autistics, still. ABA used to try to shock the gayness out of gays. It always failed at both, miserably. They stopped with gays after the American Psychological Association said homosexuality is not a sickness, in the 1970s, so we thought. Now they're doing it again, so it seems!

It's still happening in ABA's Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts. JRC also shocks New York City inner-city youth, many more black, and Latinos than whites, intellectually disabled, learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and schizophrenics. It probably shocks epileptics. Many autistics are also epileptic.

We claim that ABA is a direct cause of the "shock treatment" at the gay concentration camps in Chechnya, Russia, the likes of which the world has never seen done upon gays since Adolph Hitler did it to gays and autistics in the Holocaust. We hope we are wrong. We doubt we are mistaken.

How can we say this?

1) Both ABA's well-known shock and the Russian shock methods are similar electro-mechanically, yet identical in approach.

Chechnya shockers and ABA shockers both use "skin shock" as a form of punishment. Without clear video footage or self-reports, we cannot tell how similar, precisely, are both torture techniques, in terms of so-called "behavioral science" applications we allege they both have probably used. The Guardian said, "One of the men then cranked a handle on a machine to which the clamps were linked with wires, and sent powerful electric shocks through his body." Though ABA reports different kinds of shock devices, the electric charge into the body amounts to the same thing with ABA's current device. Whether or not the Chechen shockers use the precise knowledge base of the Board Certified Behavioral Analysts (BCBA's) in not important. If they are not trained BCBA's doing the Russian shock, ABA has set a horrible example for them to follow, undeniably. Therefore, ABA is a cause in the new Russian shock torture, in a direct cause and effect series of events, whether or not they have been trained directly by the Behavioral Analysis Certification Board programs.

2) Only "ABA Therapy" would call it "shock treatment" and that's what Chechen gays called it in The Guardian. This is a very damning term, for ABA. It points directly to ABA as follows.

There is no other so-called "helping profession" who says it does painful "shock treatment" than ABA. If they were corrections officers or some other kind of prison guards shocking as though they were using a stun gun, they would not call it "treatment." Furthermore, ABA uses electrodes and the camps use clamps to push the electric charge into the skin. There is no mention of a stun gun in Chechnya. The ECT brain shock of psychiatry. ABA admits its shock wouldn't work to "decelerate rates of problem behaviors" without the pain. The camps are clearly not doing psychiatric brain shock.

3) ABA and Chechnya skin shockers are both highly-unethical "torturers."

The U. N. calls this ABA shock "torture." The Guardian reports Chechnya torture. Overwhelmingly, ABA disregards the dissent of its victims. The same goes for concentration camp victims, obviously. ABA Leaks has already established this on our Facebook page and in this blog and in personal dealings with them and observation of their own videos. ABA calls itself "effective." It follows "by any means necessary" faulty ethics and it fails at its goals anyhow. It uses the highly unethical popular-norm-of-the-day standard to misjudge people who are different. It always has with autistics. It seemed to stop with gays. Well it's happening again. They call us all "deviants." Well they're control freaks. They are the pot calling the kettle black, pathological hypocrites who accept no responsibility for their own sadistic behavior and calling their own victims pathological in highly-demeaning methods and language. Both"shock treatments" are identically unethical. Their logic is the same. It goes like this: "We don't like the way they behave, so let's teach them a good lesson and shock the hell out of them."

3) Russia has a long, intimate, and well-established connection with ABA.

ABA Leaks uncovers this Behavioral Analysis Certification Board (BACB) Board Certified Behavioral Analysts (BCBA) course of study at the Moscow Centre of Pedagogy and Psychology.

The FBI has a file on B. F. Skinner, who was second to Russian Pavlov in the ABA timeline, as Pavlov and Skinner both discovered different kinds of behavioral conditioning methods. The two operate in conjunction with each other. ABA started with Pavlov in Russia when he trained dogs to salivate to a bell by presenting them with meat and then ringing the bell without meat. Then they salivated just to the bell. Pavlov (1927) cut holes in dog cheeks to collect the saliva and measure it. Then Skinner (1938) discovered behavior modification by way of consequences to behaviors, whereas Pavlovian conditioning takes place by the simultaneous pairing of stimuli together, for example, turning a neutral stimulus (a bell) into a reinforcer (that signals food may arrive) or a punisher. Furthermore, ABA Leaks found well over ten thousand members in ABA's Russian Facebook groups, including one with ABA involved in prisons.

4) Chechnya skin shockers called them "animals." B. F. Skinner, another founder of ABA, called all his "subjects organisms," as he said he "controlled" behaviors of homo sapiens and other animals.

5) All ABA, either with outright support or with silent complicity, supports skin shock "torture." See here and here.

6) There have already been many ABA related deaths, though probably unintentional. There are reports of Chechnya gay murders.

7) Hitler's "solution" was scientific. This term describing "shock treatment" in Chechnya smacks of what ABA calls "Human Science."

Conclusion

ABA Leaks has no doubt. We hope we are wrong. The truth will emerge, hopefully, with further investigation. Then we will know for sure exactly how ABA is involved in potentially the next horrific holocaust by the bosom buddy of Donald Trump, Russia's iron-fisted, murderous dictator Vladimir Putin.

Reward and Consent™

This is a copy of tonight's ABA Leaks letter to the American Montessori Society.

You're making a list? Checking it twice? Do yourself a favor. Skip it.

ABA Leaks finds the Judge Rotenberg Center knew it sent high voltage surges of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) electricity into the skin of epileptics, which was "not unusual" there. Most victims are non-white. ABA is a fake science. Here's why:

Applied Behavior Analysis is Lost in Space with Dr. Skinner-Smith. "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Dr. Skinner approaches your living quarters!"

Does CEO Maria Malott understand how cold she seems?

This is not Psychiatry's ECT brain shock. ABA admits it intends to "effectively" cause pain, and it does, though ineffectively.

Denouement. ABA aims to control the world.

Appendix I

ABA Leaks Exclusive Report

A Tale of Two Skin Shockers: "Old Dick Malott, BCBA," vs. "New Dick Malott, non-BCBA," so it seems. What happened to the credential?

Appendix Two. ABA's slick scare-tactic marketing schemes.

Autistics speak. We say:

Non-vocal of speech, actually-autistic blogger Amy Sequenzia (April 12, 2016) proposed to our peer group "every time we talk about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), we also say Autistic Conversion Therapy. Gay Conversion Therapy has a bad reputation. Both 'treatments' (tortures) have the same root."

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis trained for behavioral compliance under cramped MRI space, yet it did not stress the accommodation for children's disabilities by advocating for extra-large MRIs under claustrophobic conditions.

Noam Chomsky (2017) said, "Behaviorism can't die. It doesn't matter how often it's refuted and how fully it's refuted, it comes right back to life."

ABA Leaks finds that while B. F. Skinner (1958) led behavioral psychology, his followers tortured, maimed, and killed eight rhesus monkeys.

This most powerful editor of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) journals undoubtedly approved the experiment.

Mr. Kip Oren, newest ABA Leaks investigator, asked if Applied Behavior Analysis is, indeed, a profession. There have been allegations of fraud and abuse against Kelle Wood Rich, CEO of the Central Texas Autism Center, yet the Behavior Analyst Certification Board still lets her practice.

Related posts

ABA Leaks finds the "most positive" thing that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has to offer is artificial praise ("conditioned praise") paired with doggie treat bribes ("food reinforcement") after the controllers have starved ("effectively deprived of food") actually-autistic 18-month-old toddlers.

ABA Leaks finds CNN Anderson Cooper report: Kirk Murphy, the survivor of UCLA's Applied Behavior Analysis "Sissy Boy Experiment," committed suicide.

Here's a brief commentary on Brill (July 19, 2012). Time out vs. time in: What's the difference?

ABA Leaks finds Applied Behavior Analysis' (ABA's) "Cardgate" scandal is worse than previously reported. Not only do ABA providers and students make fun of autistic people, their song on Soundcloud, "A Good Game of Cards," seems to allude to childhood sexual abuse, crudely.

ABA Leaks finds that high-voltage skin shock torture is essential "human-and-non-human, experimental-subject-organism data" to all Experimental and Applied Behavior Analysis (EBA and ABA). ABA Leaks believes all lab rat Skinner Boxes have electric grid floors.

ABA Leaks finds that in 2016 Massachusetts revoked the license of the Eagleton School, which did Applied Behavior Analysis, because the state charged five staffers, at first, and eventually sixteen, with different kinds of criminal abuse of autistic boys.

Kupferstein (July 14, 2016). How I teach autistic students without using Applied Behavior Analysis.

This is the Leviticus Loophole, the gay men's ticket to heaven, straight out of Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, first Sunday, June, 2017.

B. F. Skinner generally opposed coercive punishment, but only for "normal" people, which is what he called "neurotypical people," who we atypical and proudly-identified autistic folks call everyday people, the so-called "mentally healthy" adults and children.

Related links

See the rest of this developing ABA Leaks timeline project here.

Altieri (first published April 29, 2017). Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has a Terrible Timeline it will never publish and here it is. This report includes works of the "CounterControllers" to the ABA Controllers.

In reverse chronological order, here are the works of the ABA CounterControllers along with the Terrible Timeline that the Controllers will never publish in any of their propaganda, guaranteed.

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ABA Leaks catches their so-called "problem behavior" redhanded. Two massive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) networks vie for industry-wide domination. ABA dude calls it a "hostile takeover." Ha!

She's speaking again! Jennifer Msumba, Applied Behavior Analysis skin shock torture victim, reports on her trauma, yet ABA refuses to listen.

ABA Leaks concludes that a direct cause of the "shock treatment" in Chechnya's gay concentration camps is the pseudoscience cult called Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).

How can we say this?

Conclusion