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Heather Gonzales and the pathology of misbehaviorism
When ABA Defends Its Problem Behavior In the wake of the Wall Street Journal investigation into the Medicaid autism therapy boom, some Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) providers have adopted a new rhetorical posture: the…
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Two-Thirds of Non-Speaking Autistic Children Gained Speech — So What?
January 2026 headlines making the rounds claimed that two-thirds of non-speaking autistic children gained speech with evidence-based therapy. At first glance, this sounds like a major win for early intervention and behavioral treatment. Unfortunately,…
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Who Is on Trial Here? Assisted Typing and the Limits of Behavioral Authority
misbehaviorism For decades, assisted typing has been treated as the defendant in a disciplinary courtroom convened by behaviorism. The charge has been consistent: the typed words of nonspeaking autistic people cannot be trusted because…
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Dosing as Damage Control: How California’s ABA Industry Signals Business as Usual
As criticism of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has intensified, the field has not gone quiet. Instead, it has adapted. A recent study by Doreen Samelson, Ben Pfingston, and Lindsey Sneed fits this pattern precisely.…
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IEEE! When the Machine Misbehaves: Neurolinguistic Markers of Behaviorist Language in AI Systems
In 2025, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies published “AI-Driven Learning Analytics for Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy” by Hong Kong researchers Chun Man Victor Wong, Yen Na Yum, and Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The study proposed…
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How a Field Responds to Disruption: Citation, Control, and Authority in Behavior-Analytic Research
In April 2025, behaviorist Cory Morris and others published a paper with a modest-sounding goal: to examine how behavior-analytic journals cite a single study. The study in question was Kupferstein’s 2018 paper reporting elevated…
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