I saw a lot of people praising him for the donation and his will to help is amazing but I also saw many post made by armys falsely explaining how the centre will operate and making it seem like it’s just a happy, fun music therapy. Or even straight up saying it will help children become independent and not conform to the neurotypical world.
If anyone actually read the articles they would learn that the reality is exactly the opposite and unfortunately the centre is supposed to work “expanding on” outdated and by many considered as harmful behavioural therapies made to force children to conform.
Those therapies (called also ABA) focus on pretty much training children with Autism to suppress Autism specific behaviour like stimming and behave like their neurotypical peers, because of the belief that it will make their (and everyone’s around them) life easier.
In reality those therapies often lead to a lot of frustration and many mental health problems, there are studies showing they can cause PTSD and other types of trauma in children, even when parents see what they consider great results.
So while it sounds great on the surface the centre planning to introduce music to a known harmful therapy regiment and writing guides on how to do it (and apparently the new approach to this therapy will be made with Yoongi’s personal insights) is nothing to celebrate and only sets back Korea’s understanding of the ASD.
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleViewAmp.html%3fidxno=27983
And here’s a source on the harmfulness of ABA therephy: https://therapistndc.org/education/applied-behavior-analysis-aba/
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