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It's OK @alex3619 , It's only autistic children. (sarcasm)This kind of shock therapy is outlawed in many places for dogs. It was previously used to control barking. Its considered inhumane.
Inhumane for dogs, OK for children?
The founders of ABA didn't consider autistic people to be really human.
(emphasis added)"In any case, what one usually sees when first meeting an autistic child who is 2, 3, or even 10 years of age is a child who has all the external physical characteristics of a normal child—that is, he has hair, and he has eyes and he has a nose, and he may be dressed in a shirt and trousers—but who really has no behaviors that one can single out as distinctively ‘human’. The major job then, for a therapist—whether he's behaviorally oriented or not—would seem to be a very intriguing and significant one, namely, the creation or construction of a truly human behavioral repertoire where none exists."—Ivar Lovaas, 1976