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Donald Triplett walks on a country road near his hometown of Forest. Triplett, born in 1933, was the first child diagnosed as being autistic. His story is featured in the documentary film In A Different Key, which won the prize for Best Documentary at the 2021 Oxford Film Festival.
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Today, April 2 Autism Awareness Day let’s unfix our gaze from persons with the disorder. Instead, let’s look in the mirror, and reflect on the systems we have made to serve and surround them. How have we allowed autism to turn into a profit generator?
In a flurry of legislative acts passed between 2010 and 2015, Massachusetts, where I live, became the 22nd state to mandate insurance coverage of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as a behavioral health benefit for autism. The state’s market for ABA services has been booming ever since.