Autism Treatment and Recovery after Discrete Video Modeling

Diagnosed with severe autism just before this clip.. Keep in mind that he did not have any language at all before DVM, he didn't even understand what language was.You will see why so many children are thought to be deaf befoe they are diagnosed (notice in the "before" clip that he has no recognition of either his name or of a human voice talking to him). He would spend hours doing the same repetitive task such as tracing the tray of the high-chair with his cup. You will see in the "after" clip that he is actually processing and understanding the questions, rather than just repeating rote phrases (he looks around the room for something to see and looks on the shelf for something he wants). ABA has often times been criticized for being too mechanical, but accompanied with DVM this concern is avoided. To see Max's story and see him today as an 11 year old go to autismretreat.org.

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