Ming (Agents of Speech) contrasts historical aversive practices in early autism therapy (e.g., shouting, withholding food to test affection) with contemporary ABA approaches that emphasize naturalistic, positive reinforcement, praise, and rejecting punishment. The speaker references personal training experience observing older methods and endorses the mantra "praise the best and ignore the rest" as guiding mindset.
Therapy for special needs children is not a very old profession. Maybe if you talk about around 40 to 50 years ago the predecessors, the people who used to experiment on children on the spectrum would be screaming at them, starving at them to see if they have any affection towards other human beings and that's why we have this kind of data right now I'm not saying that they did a good job back then when I was watching that during my training days as an AB therapist which the clinic that I worked at did a very good job telling us that this was the old type of therapy this was the old type of things that they did for us to, to have this understanding now therefore we're not going to do the things that they used to do we're going to be as naturalistic, as uplifting we only do positive things we do not punish, we only reward or we praise we do not condemn this kind of mindsets right and the best mindset about this is praise the best and ignore the rest of the.
