The Therapist Neurodiversity Collective condemns the CCC-SLP Board Certified Specialist in ASD (BCS-ASD).

Competency Requirements: Board Certified ASHA Speech-Language-Pathologists are required to have knowledge of the core features of operant learning theory and application of behavior analysis, including positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment. 

ABA is conversion therapy for Autistic people. It's unethical and inhumane. The use of ABA on non-consenting humans is a violation of social justice, personal agency, self-determination, and body autonomy.

Also Known As:

• "Play-based" ABA
• Pivot Response Treatment (PRT)
• Early Start Denver Model (ESDM)
• Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI)
• ABA + relationship-based therapy (ABA + DIRFloortime, SCERTS, Hanen, or similar)
• Verbal Behavior (VB)
• VB-MAPP
  The Lovaas Approach
• Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI)
• Natural Language Paradigm ® (NLP)

The American Board of Autism Spectrum Disorders has determined that autistic sensory integration dysfunction (SID) is a controversial and unsubstantiated diagnosis. BCS-ASD CCC-SLPs will be required to "lead and supervise teams of interventionists" (behavior technicians) and supervise "ABA insurance-reimbursed services related to communication."

The American Board of Autism Spectrum Disorders Executive Board members are Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and Dr. Stephen M. Camarata. 

Dr. Lynn Koegel and her husband, Robert, are the developers of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), a behavior treatment for Autism.  PRT is based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

Currently, this Clinical Specialty petition is in STAGE 2 ("Accepted") per the American Speech & Hearing Association's process.  Following Stage 2 acceptance by ASHA, the petitioning group is permitted to move forward with establishing their Specialty Certification Board, by completing additional steps before the board becomes operational and able to accept applications.

The ABA war machine stands to make million$ from this certification. CCC-SLPs will be annually billing thousands of hours of ABA for "autism treatment" - conversion therapy. Read more here: ABA and the ASHA Agenda