AH!!!!
AT least it's not a court action then from the ABA-salespeople then.... phew!
I got a message from the FEAT people, and I should point out that, when I asked him for some ideas on how to get in touch with Kit Weintraub, all I got was this: "Mr. Andrews, Please note the "Wisconsin". Or contact ASAT." Not very helpful. Anyway, I've done my (almost) sentence-by-sentence reply to Weintraub. I'll post it sometime.
[Vastaanottaja xxxxxxx
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Lähettäjä Michael McIntire <xxxxxxxxxx>
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http://www.feat.org/contact.htm David, I submit that you have mistaken this organization for someone else.
FEAT does not have a Kit Weintraub on it's board. You may be referring to
another organization. Please keep in mind that all FEAT organizationas are
entirely independent. FEAT is neither a membership organization, nor is it a
parent child organization such as the ASA. FEAT has no relationship with
ASAT, and does not endorse or condone it's policies or actions.
In the future, please take greater care to refrain from slandering an
organization in this manner.
Michael McIntire
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UserTo: Board: xxxxxxxxxxx
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UserSubject: well, well, well....
UserMessage:
Firstly, I looked again at the board-member's name: it is Kit Weintraub, not
Kim.
Secondly.... I checked out more of the ASAT site, and it was interesting to
see that the FEAT video is being marketed intensively there. So I got to
thinking... what to they say about other approaches to autism.
I checked out the bits on various other approaches and found that - of all
the approaches - only the behaviourism-based approaches were favoured, and
all the others were found "flawed": only the behaviouristic interventions
got through the scrutineers' grasp with anything like a totally positive
review.
And yet ALL the properly conducted reviews of the literature in this field
suggest that no one method is more effective that the others.
I have to conclude for myself that ASAT is not an Association for Science in
Autism Treatment, but maybe should be called ABAT... since it cannot see
past behaviourism as anything scientific.
I think that there is a link between the ASAT organisation and the FEAT
organisation, and that - since it came from a FEAT board-member - Kit
Weintraub's article forming a very nasty personal attack on Michelle Dawson
was "allowed through" purely because of this link.
It seems that a number of people find the ASAT and FEAT perspectives rather
"nauseating and machiavellian" but my point in this mail follows:
If FEAT and ASAT want to find anything like a good review in the journal
that _I_ work with, I shall be expecting to see Michelle Dawson's reply to
Kit Weintraub's personal attack and character defamation within the next few
weeks appearing either on the FEAT pages or on the ASAT pages, or on both.
In any case, it will find its way onto _my_ site, as will a sentence by
sentence analysis of Kit Weintraub's article, telling how it is wrong, why
it is wrong and making sure that the public are made aware of the tactics
that FEAT and ASAT between yourselves are prepared to stoop down far enough
to do in order to cause upset.
I cannot see FEAT or ASAT as anything but the most unprofessional and
unethical organisations dealing with autism. Even Lovaas didn't stoop to
your levels.
David N. Andrews BA-status, AEPiT
Applied Educational Psychologist
Kotka
Finland
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