Subject: Research on Adults having undergone ABA as children

October 6, 2005

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:03:40 -0500

From: t Burk juliet@...

Hi t,

Drs. Partington & /or Sundberg I believe did the follow up study on the

Lovaas study until the students were in their high teens or low 20's, I'm not

sure

which. It was published in one of the journals; I'd have to dig back in my

Archives to locate it. I do recall that one of the students who had been in the

retarded range had advanced to normal level of IQ and one of the students that

had been in the normal range had fallen back. I also recall them stating that

one had a girlfriend. At a PCDI conference , that I went to 10 years ago, they

had a graduate who became a D.J.

Good Luck,

Larry

>Subject: Research on Adults having undergone ABA as children (Cross posted)

Hi!

I am questioning an assertion that there has been an avoidance in

studying children that have undergone ABA as children when they reach

adulthood. The implication is that these children, having had ABA and

money poured at them do not function any better as adults as children

who had no ABA. Thus the money saved with EIBI/ABA is merely

theoretical and not actual. So here are my questions:

1. Has anyone followed ABA children long term?

2. What are their rates of independence, job functioning, marriage,

etc?

3. Has ABA been used long enough to develop statistics?

4. Who is following these kids as adults?

Please include citations, etc.

t Burk

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