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• CommunicationThis is misleadingTier 3 · Clinical consensus

  “we should not use "no" while training kids with ASD”

  There's no evidence the word "no" itself harms autistic children, and behavioral-therapy guidance actually recommends teaching kids to tolerate hearing it, since refusal is unavoidable in daily life. The real evidence-based practice is using clear, positive, directive phrasing ("walk please" instead of "don't run"), because negated instructions can be harder to process -- a narrower point than banning the word outright.

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