How much compliance is too much compliance: Is long-term ABA therapy abuse?

@article{SandovalNorton2019HowMC,
  title={How much compliance is too much compliance: Is long-term ABA therapy abuse?},
  author={Aileen Herlinda Sandoval-Norton and Gary Shkedy},
  journal={Cogent Psychology},
  year={2019},
  volume={6},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:199041640}
}
Abstract This article discusses the prevalence of ASD with specific regard to the most ubiquitous current treatment, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). A discussion of some of the issues with the underlying theory of ABA in its current application is conducted, especially with regard to “lower functioning” and nonverbal autistic individuals; namely, the curtailing of soothing “stimming” behaviors, operant conditioning, behaviorist principles that research has continued to prove it is not apt for… 
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