EverNotes from a Radical Behaviorist: ABAI Autism Conference 2014: David Richman: Emergence, Early Intervention, and Prevention of Self-Injury

Emergence, Early Intervention, and Prevention of Self-Injury

1. He tracked the kids, passively recording the evolution from self-stim to self-injury over the months and/or years with no behavioral intervention, in order to scientifically record the evolution of self-injury.
   1. He acknowledges the questionable ethics of this.
   2. Oh Sinclair Lewis and Arrowsmith, wherefore art thou?
2. Ah, but there was an experimental group.
   1. He only kept in his study those whose stimming was not socially maintained.
   2. He kicked out of his study those whose stimming was socially maintained.

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