Ole Ivar Lovaas - Work With George Rekers On Gender-variant Children

Work With George Rekers On Gender-variant Children

In addition to his extensive work with autistic children, in the 1970s Lovaas co-authored four papers with George Rekers on children with atypical gender behaviors. The subject of the first of these studies, a child of 4 years 11 months at the inception of treatment, committed suicide as an adult; his family attribute the suicide to this treatment.

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