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About me:
I’m an investigative journalism (bylines New York Times, Healthy Debate & Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism) and podcaster (Noncompliant: A Neurodiversity Podcast), and co-founder of Autistics for Autistics, Canada’s autistic self advocacy organization, an international affiliate of ASAN.
Book 1. ABA: The Troubling History & Legacy of Today’s Most Popular Autism Therapy
The early years of Ole Ivor Lovaas, including the rise and fall of his ABA & “gay conversion therapy” practices;
The “research” & lobbying juggernaut for ABA, including Autism Speaks’ push for state insurance mandates to fund ABA (& only ABA);
The strange missionary-level efforts to export ABA to Africa, Europe and South America;
The methodological flaws and ethical and moral issues of behaviourism;
The newer, more humane and evidence-based approaches that are becoming more popular with families and schools.
Book 2. The Children Do Not Consent: The Search for Autism’s Cure and the Kids Who Pay the Cost
An in-depth history of autism pseudoscience within the medical and the alt health sectors in the 20th century (including the antivax movement);
Interviews with medical ethicists, autism researchers, historians, advocates, parents, teachers & legal professionals—on autism pseudoscience;
Exposés about autism “cure” scammers today, including bizarre clinical trial scams, bleach/MMS, chelation, behaviourism and online scams;
A chapter on MSSNG and the ethical issues of the autism genome project;
The movement to stop autism pseudoscience. What can we do to help the children?
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