Great ABA therapy session (Autism)

[31faithful]

please don't teach your children the more sign unless you teach them all the other signs, as well! It can easily become a stim, an escape, and it's generally just way too vauge.

[TheRealVenna]

I know that feeling. When you ask a question and they respond appropriately and your heart just swells with pride and joy. With my son those moment are still few and far between, but he is making steady progress. We are currently on a waiting list for speech therapy, but he goes to spec Ed pre-school twice a week and has OT every two weeks. That's as much as his medical coverage will cover. I wish it was more but I work with him at home too.

[kissb4]

hi.. I'm just finishing a psychology degree and am about to start working with a little girl with mild autism doing aba therapy. Just looking around at some videos, this is very exciting! what a great moment to capture! just wondering how old phoenix is here? thanks!

[MellzTube]

@speakup999 Phoenix is 6 now and is doing very well. I will be posting a current video of him on my account soon. He is at kindergarten reading level now and his speech has improved significantly. He is an amazing little guy and has a talent with creating things out of legos.

[bapska111]

my son cant sit still at table like this girl, we strugle with it. we do things on floor mainly. and his attention span is qiute short... i look at this and wonder what to do.... my boy cannnot be still, he always run around and jumps... any advice

[IntrapersonalKent]

first of all, I am intimately familiar with this situation. Here is what I suggest. For a week or two, interrupt any and all "sit down and learn" therapies you are presently doing. If he can't sit down for it, its not helping either of you anyway. Give him quite classical instrumental music at bedtime for 10 minutes prior to falling asleep. This should increase serotonin levels and augment the efficacy and restfulness of his actual sleep. Second, work with his dopamine by

[IntrapersonalKent]

stimulating the olfactory bulb with something he likes..orange, lemon, candy? Let him smell it deeply 3-4 times, several times a day. I promise you that if done right, you'll have a happier, calmer little boy who's brain isn't suffering from erratic chemical fluctuations -_-.

Oh yes..dont forget the love, tenderness, affection, low calming voice..all that good loving parent stuff. Everything else comes second to that.

[pankirulz]

God Bless You!!! I will be so happy when I achieve so much success with my daughter! We are learning ABA and my daughter is non-verbal at 2 and a half with a recent diagnosis of autism. I celebrate your success!

[kaf1968]

I am an ABA therapist. Perhaps this was something the therapist was doing between trials as a reinforcement. The children that I work with love puzzles and I always use them as reinforcers. I think that Mom's excitement should speak for itself.

[patty1815]

the Mom sounds so excited ...aw! I love it!

[ildico111]

many chn wth autism have great academic skills but how this method help them in social skills, like interaction wth other people?

[fxyy2k3]

This is social interaction. Being able to respond to a teacher or another person is great, it's just an added bonus that the child is also learning something. It is great integration.

[azncutie211]

@fxyy2k3

[SuperPopa81]

I am not trying to criticize, just suggesting that it would be helpful to receive a response before moving on and if child does not respond, you can try errorless learning technique, or provide a partial physical prompt

[sean86333]

2the people who criticised:Just because it's not great ABA doesn't mean it should be ripped to shreads. Just because u r right doesn't mean u should be so smug about it- why not offer helpful advice rather than negative comments? I would have thought that people who know so much about ABA (as i can see you do) would know about it because they care about helping people? But u seem more interested in showing off what u know & criticing people who r trying really hard but not getting it quite right

[tattzrus]

for fucks sake all you pricks start verbal fights on any bloody video dont you. why cant you just appreiciate that the therapist is helping an autistic child to talk and giving them life skills that WILL help them in the future no matter what. i think the therapist is doing a good job and im sure the parents are doing well too. good luck to you pheonix :)

[MellzTube]

Thanks for the support. I'm Phoenix' mom and at the time of the video this was a very exciting moment. The fact that he even repeated what was asked of him was a big milestone because he wouldn't make eye contact or speak, let alone repeat or do anything that was asked of him. He is 5 now and has come a long way. He says mom and dad along with other short sentences with meaning. As oppose to just saying simple words with no meaning like he use to in the past. We're very proud of him.

[speakup999]

@MellzTube How is he doing now?

[gratefula]

Wow

[kircherangel]

It is time to grow up little boy

[TheAwesomeCj]

He did great, shut the fuck up.

[PaceyPanda]

My comments were directed at the therapist, not Phoenix. He would do even better if his therapist had a clearer idea of ABA principles. ABA looks easy when its done well, but its easy to do it badly too.

[kissb4]

@PaceyPanda It's such a small snap shot of the session, it's a pretty big call to say the therapist is doing it badly from a 46 second look.

[PaceyPanda]

I agree with begaelmir, what makes you think that this is such a great ABA session. What is the SD? Is it "are we pointing", is it "do you want another one", is it "what's this?", is it "give me more".

What is the desired response and does the child give any response other than echo the prompt?

[renitar]

You don't know what a bad session is for this particular child. Maybe its hard to connect with Phoenix.

What makes this a good session is the person working with Phoenix does good redirecting him. He was initially focused on another part of the puzzle when she was trying to get him to point to and say A. She got his attention and prompted him to say and sign "give me more." He even makes eye contact with her when reaching for the puzzle piece.

[renitar]

Remember what kinda of children you're working with and how it compares to a "difficult" day. He did really good. He didn't get frustrated or tantrum, he tried hard to stay focused and gave the therapist what she wanted; interaction.

[kircherangel]

It is great because a mom is seeing her child get interested in learning and improving.  You don't have to have your head in the text books and prove that you are better than everyone just relish the human accomplishment of it for God's sake!

[psycobasschick]

this makes my heart happy!

[begaelmir]

example-

whats this? wait 2 sec if the child doesnt respond say; whats this a and wait for response if she responds a verbally reinforce/praise ask a different question tap head/name etc and return t the initial whats this? child responds a give HUGE REINFORCEMENT thus vary your reinforcement, wait for response and model what you want

[begaelmir]

whats so great about this session, the child is not on task the tutor is repeating the sd and not teaching the child what she wants if she wants an response model the answer a- when the child answers reinforce the child, too me she is an great echoic it is how you teach her the words you want, this task is not helpful

[breasmom36]

This brings back memories...

[breasmom36]

This brings back memories...

[Abnormaldiversity]

Is he signing 'more' in this video?

[KANAETAKENSHIN]

Yes he is.

[farawolah]

Wow!

How old is she?

[MellzTube]

He is 3 in this video.

[Sassifrassilassi]

Wow, this is great to see. How do you teach pointing? I am trying to teach my two year old to point. I realize this is probably not an easy question to answer. Thanks :)

[MellzTube]

Hi, what we do with Phoenix is hand over hand or demonstrate the pointing and he usually copies.