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[quote=Anonymous]Well, this probably is a digression but your post elaborates on some of the big problems with Greenspan, whom I have said repeatedly was a visionary, but a limited one.  First of all, he "hated the parents who didn't do enough."  This is true, he treated many parents with contempt.  And the problem is that if a clinician doesn't take families as they are (sometimes the mothers have to work, sometimes there are other children in the family, sometimes loving and dedicated parents simply can't do everything he prescribed) then what good is their approach?  We all know how easy it is for us moms to feel guilty about anything and everything.  How about telling them that because they didn't spend 7 hours a day in a therapeutic session with their child, their child is still autistic?  I don't think its healthy for anyone to spend that amount of time one on one with their child, and I think it is a distortion of the parent-child relationship.  But ultimately, I think it is a recipe for parental overload and family breakdown and I don't see how either of these things help the children.  And I don't see how making parents feel bad about themselves -- which he did on a regular basis -- is helpful either.

And the second problem was his war on ABA.  Now I believe that floortime was a far superior approach for my DS than ABA, and he is on the spectrum.  But it is simply wrong to say that Greenspan was not averse to ABA, he was at war with ABA -- including for kids with ASDs. Which is unfortunate because a blend of the two approaches might be perfect for some kids.

He created this great thing and it has helped tons of kids and will long outlast him.  But he was far, far from perfect.  And I think its telling that we have no parents on these boards who have come forward to say he diagnosed their children with ASDs.[/quote]

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