"Ole Ivar Lovaas is considered a pioneer in the development of interventions for autistic children based on Applied Behaviour Analysis. [ABA] This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact

"Ole Ivar Lovaas is considered a pioneer in the development of interventions for autistic children based on Applied Behaviour Analysis. [ABA] This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact members of the collaborationist fascist party Nasjonal Samling. His father, Ernst Albert Løvaas, was a prominent leader in the propaganda apparatus of the German-installed fascist government. Ole Ivar Lovaas himself was an active participant in, and a local leader of, the fascist youth movement."

Gjerde, Å. B. (2025). Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251324102

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