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O. Ivar Lovaas ABA experiments on autistic kids 1965

UCLA

Children's

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Ole Ivar Lovaas tries to teach autistic kids to be obedient to prompts by plying them with food. Research subjects Billy and Pamela were also featured in the 1965 LIFE Magazine article Screams, slaps, and love: a surprising, shocking treatment helps far-gone mental cripples, in which is described how the latter is subjected to electric shocks "to give her something to be anxious about". The four original research subjects were, in order of appearence in this video:

Chuck, age 7

Billy, age 7

Pamela, age 9

Ricky, age 8

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UCLA
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