Henny Kupferstein, Ph.D.

05/27/2026

Please read through this, if you can stomach it. Thank you Hunger for Words for sharing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYu7SnXmM6h/?img_index=1

05/27/2026

Melatonin is not “just a vitamin.” It is a biologically active hormone being sold in the United States under the weakly regulated “dietary supplement” loophole created by DSHEA. That does NOT mean schools or staff can hand it to children without informed parental consent, physician authorization, documentation, or medical oversight. If reports are true that students were given melatonin gummies at school without proper authorization, this raises serious questions involving unauthorized administration of substances to minors, negligence, battery, disability-rights violations, and potential abuse of behavioral control practices. “It’s over the counter” is not a legal defense for secretly or casually administering psychoactive or sedating substances to children.

Parents should immediately consider adding explicit language to their child’s IEP, 504, health plan, intake forms, and school records stating: “No food, candy, gummies, supplements, vitamins, melatonin, herbal products, or ingestible substances may be offered or administered without prior written parental consent.” Verbal requests are not enough. Put it in writing. Especially for disabled, nonverbal, or medically vulnerable children, documentation matters. Schools do not get to decide that a hormone, gummy, edible, or “natural supplement” is harmless simply because it’s sold next to vitamins at CVS.

A Baltimore County school that serves students with cognitive disabilities is at the center of a lawsuit.

05/27/2026

Read the update, read the comments, sign-like-share. I was the first to sign, and am begging you to do the same.

I'm flooded with emotions. More than 2,100 people have signed this petition. But what’s really hitting me are the stories, the testimony, the comments, the videos families have shared privately and publicly. Parents. Former staff. Disabled adults. People who said: “This happened to my child too....

05/27/2026

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Christian Toms, 47, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 420 months (35 years) in prison for child po*******hy crimes involving a non-verbal boy with autism.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Christian Toms, 47, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 420 months in prison for child po*******hy crimes involving a non-verbal boy with autism.

05/26/2026

I signed first. This morning, we have 450 signatures. Add your name to the list. Let’s get this done!

Protect Non-Verbal Children—Mandate Audio & Video in All SPED Classrooms & ABA Centers

05/25/2026

Parents should be cautious when reading headlines claiming ABA has “proven outcomes” for autistic children.

My latest article explains how the ABA industry depends on these research narratives to maintain legitimacy and public confidence while major providers face Medicaid fraud investigations and mounting scrutiny over billing and oversight practices.

What the industry often calls “clinical outcomes” are frequently behavior-compliance metrics generated inside the treatment system itself, and not objective measures of long-term health, well-being, autonomy, or quality of life.

Families deserve to know the difference before marketing claims and industry-funded “research” are mistaken for meaningful medical outcomes.

and STOP

You’ve seen the headlines. “1,141 children.”“National clinical standard.”“Published outcomes.”“ABA therapy shown effective.” “We take pride in the work of improving our craft,” said Ed Maher,…

05/25/2026

In the 70s in Brooklyn NY, we were sent to the corner grocer and expected to produce the list of items, the receipt, and exact change. I remember my first time vividly. I was 4, and it was a cold October day, I felt stylish in my Fall clothes. I wasn't verbal yet. I got the milk brand that we used, placed it on the counter, watched the old Jewish holocaust survivor scribble match on the brown paper bag, gave him the $10, and held the change tightly in my fist all the way home. I eloped often and still do, but it's now best described as sudden bolting.

05/25/2026

Our next Allied Health coalition meeting is June 7. Please send this to an OT, PT, or SLP.

We need to meet and discuss how to strengthen your scope and standards, as ABA technicians makes claims to do what you wall went to to school for!

Stop the madness. Join the coalition. Let's write some laws.

tag a pro.

🚨 ALLIED HEALTH ZOOM MEETING – 1st Sunday of the month Calling OT • PT • SLP Professionals Date: June 7, 2026Time: 12:15 pacific standard time (3:15 pm eastern)Zoom: [REGISTER HERE], Registra…

05/25/2026

Looks like K hasn’t found ABA to help with irritable bowel. Now she wants to modify how the American healthcare referral should help her 🤧

This kid has to learn not to throw her weight around too much. You can’t build a career on hating people who call you out.

I hope she separates from her handlers soon and discovers the real big world.

Studies don’t seem to agree on the percentage, but it could be fair to say that the MAJORITY of autistic people have gastrointestinal issues.

As you can probably infer from the picture, I am included in this majority. 🚽

With the American healthcare system, to get help with digestive problems, one must first see a doctor that CANNOT help in order to obtain a referral to a doctor that likely WILL NOT help.

They’ll say, “oh your bowels are just irritable. Maybe stop irritating them!”

So if you too are suffering “tummy troubles” you’re not alone…and unfortunately, I don’t think it ever gets better 😭