b) Now, this gets even trickier. I'll be careful here.
Some teams do not tell the truth.
If they are in a room, alone, with a child, for hours a day, it could be that...
...Either they just invent the 'success', so they can stop.
...Or, they don't bother to do ABA at all/

Most ABA 'results' are from one ABA enthusiast sitting in a cell with one autistic child.
Witnesses - none. Or, none who are independent.
And if a team is paid to get that result, who on earth is going to write down that they didn't get the result, eh?/

and c) Some organisations claim to be using ABA when they are not doing ABA. Claiming it's ABA means the parents can put in insurance claims for ABA, in some countries. But in fact the child could simply be sitting with a kind person all day, being taught very ordinary things/

and then d) Some children learn skills outside of ABA-enforcement-school, and some children simply grow up and naturally develop skills. In fact, most of them do.
But the ABA industry will often try to claim it was them who did all of this.
Was it?
What proof?/

If you're a parent of an autistic child, your child will have learned from (e.g.) watching you/a sibling /friends, watching TV, just experimenting themselves at home, etc. But the ABA team says, 'No, autistic children CANNOT learn without ABA', and you'll believe it was ABA/

Meantime, back in the padded cells, (a common setting for this 'intervention', to stop the distressed child escaping or injuring themselves in a desperate attempt to get away from the ABA enthusiasts...
...the child often learns their views don't matter.
That they have no rights.

And...you'll believe a well dressed, attractive person using language about 'clinical' and 'evidence' is sitting opposite you, holding a colour-coded folder of alleged evidence, saying that your child is supposed to get distressed, as it's evidence of ABA 'working'.
Is it?

When researchers outside of ABA say, 'But we can't find evidence that shows it's doing anything, except causing potential distress/trauma in some children', you'll leap to the defence of ABA, because you paid for ABA. And there's no way you'd do that if it hurt your child, see/

But suppose you get suspicious, and start asking too many questions? Suppose you approach them & say, 'I want to remove my child.'
A tame ABA-funded psychology person may contact you, and in worried tones, tell you that if you do that, you will cause your child harm.
Will you?

annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/01/autism… Read the independent evidence, including that from the US Military.
annsautism.blogspot.com/2023/01/ethics…
And listen to autistic people who had ABA.
Really listen.
Do you really want to risk this?

autisticnotweird.com/autismsurvey/ One of the most useful huge surveys you'll ever read. So much in here that will transform your understanding of autistic people and what we actually need or avoid. Including about ABA, from people who had it.