tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post3168316259053545764..comments2024-02-13T21:31:57.980-04:00Comments on Facing Autism in New Brunswick: LA Times Gets It Right: ABA Is An Autism Treatment Worth FundingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838571980003579163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-77114465108619394622011-10-03T10:15:13.513-03:002011-10-03T10:15:13.513-03:00More than 30 years after its success - people are ...More than 30 years after its success - people are still fighting about implementing this in schools here in ontario and continuing funding for it for older kids. Its really sad.<br /><br />Whats sadder is that in government programs when ABA is administered, its obsolete archaic version is being used, it is not being regulated and updated properly. The ABA world has moved on and evolved and there are some awesome teaching techniques out there - but I have kind of given up hope that the public school system will ever adopt anything that actually works.<br /><br />Instead they are happy to waste 60K per child per year for baby sitting and then hand them back to you when the kid is 18 - an almost lifetime of wasted opportunity.Strandedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16819973077683697310noreply@blogger.com