ABA Signs
Is it ABA lurking?
"ABA is no more a therapy or a science than any other method of torture, means of applying dehumanising force, expression of hatred regarding diversity."
This list points to peculiar themes and words (often with deviant meanings) found associated with ABA, a list that might help in identifying where ABA is being used in some masked or hidden way.
All are welcome to suggest additions to this scratch list.
Folk are welcome to cut and paste this, and subsequent lists to anywhere it might help others avoid ABA and related dehumanisation of innocent autistic children and others.
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The ABA Cult cannot carry-on without their weirdy made-up pseudo-scientific language and definitions or they would have to resort to words like "bash", "restrain", "crush", "punish", "force", "normalise", "defeat", and "reprogram". Unlikely to make much head-way if they did that too!
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ABA
ABC
Abnormalisation
Addictive Reinforcer
Antecedent Behavior Consequence
Anxiety-ramping
Appetitive Stimulus
Applied Behavioural Analysis
Aversive
Baseline
BCBA
BCBA-D
BCaBA
Behavioural Contract
Behavioural Engineering
Behavioural Management Therapy
Behavioural Manipulation
Behavioural Skills Training
Behaviour Analyst
Behaviour Contrast
Behaviour Intervention Plan
Behaviour Modification
BIP
Blank Slate
BST
CARD
CBT (developed from ABA)
Chaining
Child-led ABA
Clicker Training
Compliance
Conditioning
Constructs
DBT (developed from ABA)
Defiance
Dependent Variable
Deprivation
Derivative Measures
Developmental Age
Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviour
Discrete Trial Training
Discriminated Operant
Discriminative Stimulus
DRA
DTT
Electro-shock Compliance
Experimental Control
Extinction
Extinction Burst
EIBI
EIDBI
Escape Suppression
ESDM
End-point Justification
Eugenical Intervention
Extinguishing
Eye Contact Insistence
FAST
FBA
Field Size
Force Schedule
Functional Analysis
Functional Behaviour Analysis
Functional Medicine
HOH Prompting
IBI
Indistinguishability
Judge Rotenberg
Lovaas
Mand
Modern ABA
Natural Environment Teaching
Negative Reinforcer
NET
Normalisation Tactics
Operant Conditioning
Oppositional Reduction
Overt Behaviour
Pairing
Pavlov's
PBS
PECS
Perseverative Behaviour
Physical Punishment
Pivotal Response Training
Play-based ABA
Positive Behavioural Support
Positive Reinforcement
Premack Principle
Probe
Programming
Prompt
PRT
Punisher
RBT
RDI
Repeatability
Respondent Conditioning
Reward/Punishment
Satiation
SCT
Shaping
Skin-shock
Spontaneous Recovery
Skinner
Tact
TAG Teaching
Target Behaviour
Task Analysis
Technological Programming
Temporal Extent
Temporal Locus
Thinning
Three-term Contingency
Trait Suppression
Typicality Imposition
Unconditioned Reinforcer
VB-MAPP
VBI
Verbal Operant
Withholding
Note: Some of these words have other acceptable meanings outside the cult-like pseudo-scientific ABA environment.
It is good to ask if unsure.
~ ʎllɐǝɹƃ uɥoɾ