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Over 1,000 Autistic Children Had Proven Clinical Outcomes From ABA, Says Ashly Joys Of Behavioral Innovations
You’ve seen the headlines. “1,141 children.”“National clinical standard.”“Published outcomes.”“ABA therapy shown effective.” “We take pride in the work of improving our craft,” said Ed Maher, CEO of Behavioral Innovations. Why This Study Is Being…
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Trauma-Informed ABA: Empathy in the Marketing, Reinforcement in the Room
The recent push to describe Applied Behavior Analysis as “trauma-informed” represents a disciplinary adaptation to criticism, not a structural transformation of the field. The paper Beyond Behavioural Change: Collaboration Between Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)…
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One Autistic Toddler Becomes “Evidence”
In March 2026, Lyftingsmo and colleagues published a study in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) claiming that a method called Errorless Compliance Training could improve “cooperative skills” in an autistic preschool child…
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“Take Off Your Shirt”: When Compliance Training Crosses The Line Into Harm.
In May 2026, Ashlyn McChristie and David A. Wilder published Teaching Young Children With Autism: When Not to Cooperate With Instructions in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. Wilder is Professor and Head of…
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Behaviorists claim that students with ‘challenging behaviors’ have a federal right to ABA on Campus
In 2024, researchers affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Utah State University published the Addressing the Challenging Behavior of College Students with Intellectual Disability in Inclusive Postsecondary Education Programs, in…
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Brian Jadro, the ‘Doctorate-Level Autism Expert’ Who Studied Your Car’s Gas Mileage
Navigating the world of autism services can be overwhelming, especially when faced with experts and professionals ready to enroll your child into treatment. More often than not, these ‘doctors’ claim titles that sound more…
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When “Family-Centered” Becomes Market Language: Catalight and the Reframing of Autism Treatment
This study measures how effectively a treatment system can re-describe itself, not how meaningfully it changes for families. On April 7, 2026, Catalight issued a press release announcing what it described as a shift…
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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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