An introduction to ABA therapy and request for support, presented by the Behavior Analysis Center of Asheville (BACA), a not-for-profit organization.
Two families and the accredited provider who helped their children share about ABA and discuss the need for ABA treatment to be available to families of all income levels.
This is done NOT by drilling/training the child to replace one set of behaviors with another, but to meaningfully comfortably and pleasurably engage in natural two-way emotional problem solving situations. This is built around the child's natural affect and takes into consideration each child's affect sensory motor planning challenges (proprioceptive, vestibular, tactile, auditory, visual-spatial processing..) as well as primary caregiver dynamics of engagement with child's systemic differences
Neilgs 6 months ago
the foundation of meaningful and integrated thinking, relating and communicating (i.e. Development). The former, unfortunately, teaching the child how to replace one set of SURFACE behaviors with another. Thus, unwittingly, teaching the child to robotically respond on cue/command. What is NOT taken into account but ABA is how the brain from a neurological and systems theory perspective actually functions. For example, the relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system.
Neilgs 6 months ago
Entirely egregiously misguided! From a true Developmental approach, which ABA is resoundingly not, teaching a child ",,,a hundred or a thousand behaviors", or from a linguistic perspective teaching him/her how to say "ba" or "ma" or any other simple phonemic combinations is entirely misguided, simply wrong. Engaging the child's natural intent or affect and wooing him in to back and forth two way emotional signaling (with natural gestures and verbalization around his interests then creates
Neilgs 6 months ago