- ABA therapy is an evidence based treatment for children with autism
- ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis.
- Applied Behavior Analysis looks at specific behaviors and what is happening in the environment to increase or decrease them
- By looking at things in environment ABA works on both behavior reduction and skill acquisition.
- ABA can reduce behaviors we don’t want to see such as aggression and tantrums
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When we know why a behavior is occurring we can work on giving an alternative more appropriate behavior that serves the same purpose.
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ABA can increase learning or skill acquisition such as
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School readiness skills
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Requesting
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Following instructions
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Expressive and receptive identification of items
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Social skills
