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  • The Evolution of Autism – Part IV: Treatment

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    kfwilliams
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    While Bruno Bettleheim was promoting his use of the ‘refrigerator mother’ theory, Dr. Ivar Lovaas was introducing behavior modification to institutions for adults engaging in severe forms of self-injury. In the mid-1960s, he changed demographics and attempted to help children avoid the path of institutionalization by constructing an intervention with the purpose of teaching language to…