Funding autism treatments that actually work

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has become the default therapy for autism in the U.S., not because it’s the most effective, but because it’s the most entrenched. Mandated by insurers, funded by Medicaid, and marketed as “medically necessary,” ABA now consumes hundreds of millions of dollars annually. But here’s the truth: ABA is unproven, ethically fraught,

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Funding autism treatments that actually work originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

 

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