Reader Responds: Autism Clinics' Profit Focus Harms Children With ABA Overuse
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The New York Times
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Summary
A reader responds to a New York Times investigation into autism clinics that prioritize profits over patient care, specifically criticizing the applied behavior analysis (ABA) industry. The letter highlights that evidence for ABA's effectiveness is limited and low-quality, yet providers push for up to 40 hours of treatment per week, exhausting autistic children. The response calls out the industry's enormous costs and harmful practices.
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Your investigation into applied behavior analysis, or A.B.A., provides long-overdue scrutiny of this industry's enormous cost and the toll it takes on patients with autism.
Nonetheless, providers prioritize maximizing treatment hours (up to 40 a week), exhausting autistic children and disrupting t
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