You have a person in a physical sense — they have hair, a nose and a mouth — but they are not people in the psychological sense.
Ivar Lovaas, talking about autistic people
This is the type of really terrible quote I’m trying to document in this tumblr and the related blog.
She’s one of the authors of Movement Differences and Diversity in Autism/Mental Retardation, which is a wonderful book...
I wish everyone ever could have been at ELSI. Anne Donnelan gave a presentation that decimated Lovaas. I almost cried.
be afraid, be very afraid
I wonder if they called it “the Lovaas method” like it used to be called — would parents jump on the bandwagon to sign...
And this person worked with autistic people. I just… I don’t even know.
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