Around ten years ago, Julia Gruson-Wood put out a research call and spoke with a number of people about applied behavior analysis (ABA), which is the basis of a common intervention used with autistic children, despite drawing criticism from autistic self advocates.
Gruson-Wood says many of the conversations were cagey at first, with people trying to suss out what her angle was.
Eventually, some people working in ABA shared criticisms of the field with Gruson-Wood – but also shared that they felt they couldn’t express those concerns publicly for fear of being blacklisted.
That inspired Gruson-Wood to dig a little deeper, a process that led to the forthcoming book; Autism and The Culture of Therapy.
She joined People First Radio to speak about it.
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