In Canada parents fighting for evidence based effective health care for their autistic children, and in particular for ABA, have faced determined opposition from anti-ABA, anti-autism treatment activists Dr.Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson and their followers. This anti-autism treatment clique has not been successful in preventing provincial governments across Canada from providing ABA coverage to varying extents. They have provided convenient cover though for a Canadian federal government which refuses to provide funding for ABA treatment to ensure that autistic children, wherever they live in Canada, receive comparable access to effective autism treatment. (The same federal government has no problem investing in the recent study by Mottron, Dawson et al that shows that high functioning autistics are up to 40 percent faster at Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) problem-solving than non-autistics).
The irrational anti-treatment perspective also exists in the United States although it tends to be relegated to extremist Neurodiversity, Autism Hub, blogs like "The Standard Review" where the author, "Ed", says of the Autism Speaks video below:
"In the video here, Autism Speaks again promotes more misinformation using a misleading description of autism and how the goals and methods of inclusion are actually being approached.
Such claims that promote the need for normalizing behavior therapies continue to also support negative stereotypes, dangerous treatments, more abuse of autistic people, and ultimately the devastating view of autism that leads to all of this."
Such claims that promote the need for normalizing behavior therapies continue to also support negative stereotypes, dangerous treatments, more abuse of autistic people, and ultimately the devastating view of autism that leads to all of this."
I don't know how "Ed" reaches the conclusions he does about the Autism Speaks video he is referencing and which is posted below. In all honesty his comments appear to me to be irrational and over the top. Ed may be one of the more extreme ND, Autism Hub, bloggers out there but I believe his views are for the most part consistent with those of the anti-autism treatment clique, including Michelle Dawson and Dr. Laurent Mottron, who dismiss the idea of curing autism as nonsense. But you can judge for yourself by playing the AS video.
I admire the work done by Autism Speaks generally although I do not agree with all of their decisions. (Autism Speaks contributed funding to the study done by the Mottron group mentioned above). Autism Speaks is right to fight against discrimination in provision of autism treatment coverage. Ideological opponents of autism treatment will never agree, or offer coherent criticism of attempts to obtain treatment for autistic children. Autism Speaks deserves full credit for standing up to these self appointed guardians of other people's autistic children.
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