Research on Adults having undergone ABA as children (Cross posted)

[Guest guest]

Hi!

I am questioning an assertion that there has been an avoidance in

studying children that have undergone ABA as children when they reach

adulthood. The implication is that these children, having had ABA and

money poured at them do not function any better as adults as children

who had no ABA. Thus the money saved with EIBI/ABA is merely

theoretical and not actual. So here are my questions:

1. Has anyone followed ABA children long term?

2. What are their rates of independence, job functioning, marriage,

etc?

3. Has ABA been used long enough to develop statistics?

4. Who is following these kids as adults?

Please include citations, etc.

t Burk

www.autismteachingtools.com

Home of the " Early Learner at Home "

[Guest guest]

I've seen more details than this, but the study was not complete.

Here's what a quick google search turns up.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep99/pi3.html

preliminary findings from another follow-up, with completion expected

this summer, indicate that these nine--now 20 to 30 years old--have

maintained their developmental gains.

> Hi!

>

> I am questioning an assertion that there has been an avoidance in

> studying children that have undergone ABA as children when they reach

> adulthood. The implication is that these children, having had ABA and

> money poured at them do not function any better as adults as children

> who had no ABA. Thus the money saved with EIBI/ABA is merely

> theoretical and not actual. So here are my questions:

>

> 1. Has anyone followed ABA children long term?

>

> 2. What are their rates of independence, job functioning, marriage,

> etc?

>

> 3. Has ABA been used long enough to develop statistics?

>

> 4. Who is following these kids as adults?

>

> Please include citations, etc.

>

> t Burk

> www.autismteachingtools.com

> Home of the " Early Learner at Home "

[Guest guest]

t,

I've recently read about a follup on the Lovaas cohort. It was not

out at the time. The thing that i remember is that one of the

recoverd had severe emotional problems. The rest were doing well.

Anyway, here's the best i can do with a published study.

hope this helps,

Pete

Long-term outcome for children with autism who received early

intensive behavioral treatment.

McEachin JJ, T, Lovaas OI.

UCLA, Department of Psychology 90024-1563.

After a very intensive behavioral intervention, an experimental group

of 19 preschool-age children with autism achieved less restrictive

school placements and higher IQs than did a control group of 19

similar children by age (Lovaas, 1987). The present study followed-up

this finding by assessing subjects at a mean age of 11.5 years.

Results showed that the experimental group preserved its gains over

the control group. The 9 experimental subjects who had achieved the

best outcomes at age 7 received particularly extensive evaluations

indicating that 8 of them were indistinguishable from average children

on tests of intelligence and adaptive behavior. Thus, behavioral

treatment may produce long-lasting and significant gains for many

young children with autism.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=8\

427693 & dopt=Citation

> Hi!

>

> I am questioning an assertion that there has been an avoidance in

> studying children that have undergone ABA as children when they reach

> adulthood. The implication is that these children, having had ABA and

> money poured at them do not function any better as adults as children

> who had no ABA. Thus the money saved with EIBI/ABA is merely

> theoretical and not actual. So here are my questions:

>

> 1. Has anyone followed ABA children long term?

>

> 2. What are their rates of independence, job functioning, marriage,

> etc?

>

> 3. Has ABA been used long enough to develop statistics?

>

> 4. Who is following these kids as adults?

>

> Please include citations, etc.

>

> t Burk

> www.autismteachingtools.com

> Home of the " Early Learner at Home "