I came here for memes , not petty politics <| sep |> I remember when Vanity ' s was a piece of shit . I also kinda liked Flamevells . Mind you Flamevell Guard was only good because it was a level 1 FIRE Dragon Tuner . <| sep |> Vegetarian thanksgiving . I ' d never wish that on my worst enemy . Not even a packers fan <| sep |> Omg it ' s also in the exposure . You see how little light there is in that room ? <| sep |> TAKE ME AWAY BOYS . <| sep |> There isn ' t an easy way to do it . You can put invisible barriers over certain spawn and script them to alternate ever round , but other than that you are shit outta luck <| sep |> You won ' t get disagreement from me on what you wrote . I completely agree that kids need time to be kids . However , that is why a lot of ABA is embedded during naturalistic times throughout a session . Yes , especially for younger or early learners , using DTT can expedite the acquisition of certain skills , but that is not the only teaching approach used . And again , being able to point to a picture of a cat when given the direction , Point to the cat is only a means of teaching the higher order process which is when someone says the name of an itembeing in the presence of that thing , that is what you should refer to it as well . To me , skills acquisition in ABA is about creating additional or supplemental opportunities to learn something that a neurotypical kid of the same age learned naturally . If by the age of 3 a child still cannot attend to a common item in their natural environment when directed to it by another , we need to supplement that skills deficit and teach it so it generalizes across people and environments . This way , when the kid goes to school and the teacher says , Get on the rug for circle time the child has learned to pair the term to the thing itself or the action in this case . With that all said , I think anything over 20 hours a week of direct therapy for a child 4 or younger is too much . The goal is to provide as much needed and no more and teach the family to implement procedures and reinforce skills being worked on . My goal , especially with preschoolaged children , is to make them as functional as possible so that when they go to school , they are able to be supported in the least restrictive manner possible . Certainly some kids with autism also have an intellectual disability , and I believe for the most part , these are the kids most people speak of on the sub when talking about ABA , but these children are slow learners and therefore need additional opportunities to learn . And I think they deserve this . They deserve the opportunity to be as independent as they are capable of being . They deserve to be protected from a lifetime of low expectations and assumptions . I personally believe this is what ABA can protect against when it is implemented correctly .