Re: Re: Eye Contact Triggers Threat Signals in Autistic Children's Brains

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I have been reading the posts from everyone in the group and I'm confused. Why is it OK for us to potty TRAIN our children, but when it gets applied to autistic children, suddenly its a sin. Folks, each of us have our own methods for nurturing our children with autism so why are we getting hung up on the words others use to describe it? Since when does anyone else's opinion or pre-judgement make a difference to those of us who live with these children. all4cam@... wrote: Well,one can

only wonder why a social worker would be concerned with a potential parent who compares their preparation and experience in training dogs to raising children . I don't subscribe to the principals of ABA so perhaps that's why I don't take to well to the concept of "training" children but that's a whole other subject.The point I was trying to make regarding this study is that sometimes there are more things that can be learned about autism that don't involve science,blind studies and placebos.I personally have learned more from talking to autistics themselves and hearing from their experiences than I have from any publishings I've ever read.StaceyFrom: <luvsbtearthlink (DOT) net>Date: 2007/01/01 Mon PM 03:17:11 CSTautism Subject: Re: Eye Contact Triggers Threat

Signals in Autistic Children's BrainsI have a good friend who is possibly the world's best mother. When shewas being interviewed by the social services agency prior to adoptingher daughter, she repeatedly made reference to her experience intraining dogs as preparation for motherhood. The agency nearly refusedher application until a more enlightened member investigated herexperience and training (oops, there's that word) in behaviormanagement. My point is that people who react to a word like trainingshould look more deeply into what training really is. I do train mydogs, using sound ABA principles, much as I train my students. I amable to use ABA because I have been trained in applied behavioranalysis myself. I just cannot see training as a bad thing ora bad word.R __________________________________________________