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My Research

My research and findings will be valuable to school administrators, school boards, and provincial governments. It is my hope that parents whose children are subject to behavioural interventions, and those students themselves, will find in this theory tools and information they can use for advocacy and self-advocacy.

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Beyond Behaviourism 2025

PBIS and Trauma Informed Education Don't Mix

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

PBIS and Trauma Informed Education Don't Mix

PBIS and Trauma Informed Education Don't Mix, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Why combining these two approaches is potentially dangerous. In PBIS is Just ABA with a Nicer Name, I debunked PBIS’ claim their programs improve student mental health. At the end of that piece, I began exploring the six principles of trauma-informed care. 

PBIS is Just ABA with a Nicer-Sounding Name

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

PBIS and Trauma Informed Education Don't Mix

PBIS is Just ABA with a Nicer-Sounding Name, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports are no better than ABA... In fact, they could even be worse when you consider their marketing messaging and tactics. 

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

In fact, it usually has the opposite effect of suppressing people’s self-regulation behaviours through punishment (and yes, negative punishment, such as withholding rewards, is still a form of punishment…

Why P.B.I.S. Needs to GTFO

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Behaviourism Can’t Teach Emotion Regulation Skills

Why P.B.I.S. Needs to GTFO, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

My article explains how extensive research shows Positive Behaviour Interventions & Supports (PBIS) programs do more harm than good, especially for marginalized and vulnerable students. 

Behaviourism Is Not Inclusion

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Behaviourism is Not Inclusion, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

PBIS is just ABA with different letters. I break down a program called Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports, identifying some very concerning aspects about this "positive" approach to inclusion and supporting "positive" behaviour in students. Learn why behaviourism is a violation of human rights.

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

How Schools Are Actually Indoctrinating Our Children. Parents worried about indoctrination are correct about the overreach of government and politics in their children’s schools. Their energies and concerns are focused on the wrong type…

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

Charts, points, and other behaviour management programs touted as "positive" are actually harmful, and ableist AF. First off, I want to express my gratitude to all teachers and school staff everywhere.

Compliant Children Are Not Learning

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

Compliant Children Are Not Learning, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

If a child is worried about getting into trouble, they are focused more on following expectations than on actual learning.

Beyond Behaviourism Virtual Conference May 2025

Behaviour Management Programs are Harmful & Ableist

I was asked to deliver a pre-recorded talk for the Beyond Behaviourism virtual conference, hosted by the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint (AASR). If you missed AASR's Beyond Behaviourism virtual conference, it's not too late! You can purchase access to all the recordings through their website.

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Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

Positive Behaviour Supports Are Compliance-Based

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Neuronormative Ideology and Neurotypical Biopower

Towards A Theory of Neurotypical Biopower

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Towards A Theory of Neurotypical Biopower, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

The principles of behaviourism are ubiquitous throughout society, especially in public education, and in particular with Autistic students. For more than three decades, experts in child development have expressed increasing concerns about the potential psychological harm caused by their use.

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Ableism & The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

Autism, behaviourism, and covert methods of social control. ABA is a type of therapy popularized through B.F. Skinner's theories of behaviour published in the 1950s, but had been introduced much earlier by John Broadus Watson in 1913. 

State-Sponsored Ableism

Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

State-Sponsored Ableism, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Public schools are institutions of conformity and control. Behaviourism is highly prevalent in our public education system, especially with vulnerable populations in “special needs” schools and classrooms, and with Autistic students. It is a form of power and control…

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity MB

In the Spring of 2022, lawyer and writer Ariana Cernius published an article in Fortune Magazine entitled, The autistic community is having a reckoning with ABA therapy. We should listen. The human health sciences uphold and perpetuate an ideology of neuronormativity.

Defining Neuronormative Ideology

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

Defining Neuronormative Ideology

Defining Neuronormative Ideology, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Ideologies are beliefs and mental frameworks which influence how we interpret our experiences. I have developed three defining features of neuronormative ideology....

Defining Neuronormative Hegemony

Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony

Defining Neuronormative Ideology

Defining Neuronormative Hegemony, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

As mentioned previously, a lawyer named Ariana Cernius published an article in Fortune Magazine in May 2022 entitled, The autistic community is having a reckoning with ABA therapy. We should listen…

Differences Are Not Deficits

ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

Differences are Not Deficits, article written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Autism, neuronormative ideology, and the ABA industry. Those who have been following my research might remember I have developed three defining features of neuronormative ideology, based on Sonja K. Foss’ model of ideological criticism...

ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

'ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science' written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Scientism, ABA, and the pathologization of autism. Those who have been following my research might remember I have developed three defining features of neuronormative ideology, based on Sonja K. Foss’ model of ideological criticism...

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ABA is Backed by Scientism, Not Science

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Continue reading my articles on Substack and Medium. **Please note, all articles are published on both platforms, so you can read them on whichever website or app you prefer.

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