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he child with autism is at heart “normal”, but their autism has them trapped, blocked-off from the world. Bruno Bettelheim, a leading champion of the refrigerator mother theory, called his major book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Fortress-Infantile-Autism-Birth/dp/0029031400"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Empty Fortress</span></a>. Either professionals, or parents, need to “break through” the autism to contact the “real” child imprisoned by the disorder. Likewise, this real child is eager to get out, but this is very difficult: they are crying out for help. In the 60s, it was psychoanalysis that could free the child. Today, it’s anything from <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/06/citalopram-doesnt-wor.html">Prozac</a> to <a href="http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/">chelation</a> and other <a href="http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml">quack “biomedical” cures</a>.
Autistic Children in the Media - Neuroskeptic
blogs.discovermagazine.com
Yet Skinner’s ideas were far from universally applauded. Although the soundness of his scientific work was seldom questioned, his far-reaching conclusions about human nature were repudiated by numerous influential critics. Noam Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Arthur Koes- tler have repeatedly argued that Skinner’s behavioral engineering reduces humans to laboratory rats and controlled robots, stripping them of dignity and free will.
Living Walden Two : B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
Hilke Kuhlman
Oft fragen die Eltern die Polizisten und die Passanten, die die Polizei gerufen haben, ob sie denn überhaupt mal versucht haben, mit ihm zu sprechen und ihn zu fragen, ob er Hilfe braucht. Die Antwort lautet meist “Nein”. Selbst vor dem Wohnhaus der Eltern riefen Passanten schon mal die Polizei, weil sie davon ausgegangen waren, man habe ihn ausgesetzt. Dabei sitzt er nur einfach gerne mit seinem E-Rollstuhl an der Straße. Und jedes Mal müssen sich die Eltern anhören, wie verantwortungslos es sei, einen “so schwer Behinderten” alleine vor die Tür zu lassen. Dabei ist das, was die Eltern machen, gelebte Inklusion. Sie lassen ihn all das machen, was er kann.
Polizeieinsatz Wegen Inklusion
blog.zeit.de
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