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.

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