Ivar Lovaas - the Entrepreneur and Successful Businessman

[CDFoakley]

Great video!

[christschool]

@CDFoakley thanks

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I know that psychiatrist can only prescribe medication.

Tired this morning information retrieval in brain is slow.

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How expensive is the Lovaas school per child?

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I think psychologist using pills on children to modify behavior or certain symptoms is very problematic. Teaching children coping skills and how to reduce anxiety is better.

The videos of the Lovaas school did not show extreme autism and how the teacher cope with that.

[christschool]

@qsmile Psychiatrists are the only ones that can prescribe medication.

Some forms of anxiety cannot be reduced in early childhood by behavior modification. This is why you only see children with normal cognitive abilities in the Lovaas Institute videos. My son would shred these childless "therapists" and his autism is only on the moderate side. However, I think as a business promotion factor, this video hits all the marketing points required.

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I do believe people teaching children should have a background in psychology and child development. One of the videos i matched , the man working with the child seemed to be engaged in inappropriate kissing and touching,

[christschool]

@qsmile I think a background in psychology can be harmful to most autistic children because psychology tends to remove the child in the mind of the therapist. Too often, they think of the "symptoms" rather than the child. In my experience, loving adults who have had children have been the best teachers for my son, especially adults who have had boys as children.

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What you see the instructors doing is nothing special but one one teaching and focusing on the individuals weaknesS regular teacher with patients could accomplish the same thing. The thing to pay attention is was cause the child anxiety , over stimulation and work around them or help them adapt to overcome them. Most of the kids shown in the video seem to be high functioning.

[christschool]

@qsmile "Most of the kids shown in the video seem to be high functioning.", like most corporations, The Lovaas Institute is probably promoting its most highest functioning kids as 'proof of purchase". Sort of like when you go to a fast food chain and when you look at the burger in the picture, it looks far "better" than what you receive in your bag.

[christschool]

@christschool One of the things I have found important for my own child, is to have someone that loves children. Loving children may seem a natural thing, but a large section of society only loves children from afar. What I mean is that they like children, but they don't really find children interesting when they have to spend time with them. Children can be difficult. You really have to like and empathize with a child and where they are in development and find what they do exciting.

[CDFoakley]

@christschool What an EXCELLENT point U make here. This is perhaps one intrinsic motivation I've had to keep showing the side of autism that we live with. I still remember the day an intake specialist at one of these bigshot autism programs told me (after I described my son) "Oh, no, no, we don't take those cases. They require extensive work." As if, God forbid, somebody might have to "work" with the most severely of the autistic children.

[christschool]

@CDFoakley wrote: "This is perhaps one intrinsic motivation I've had to keep showing the side of autism that we live with. I still remember the day an intake specialist at one of these bigshot autism programs told me (after I described my son) "Oh, no, no, we don't take those cases. They require extensive work."

This is what researchers still refuse to face up to. Lovaas had a history of taking barely autistic like children, using them in his study to "prove" his method. His method is a biz

[christschool]

@CDFoakley It didn't work on my moderately autistic child either. It won't work. As you get further into their program, you see how ridiculous it is. They prey on the parents of the newly diagnosed, like they did to me and countless thousands of other parents. It is a business, no different than the biomed community.