Guest guest Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 In a message dated 4/16/2007 11:14:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cabevizzo@... writes: Two things we have to be careful of when using this method is keeping the activities fun and exciting as well as challenging, and making sure what he learns in the activities is transferred to real life activities. you are so right about that. the other thing I would caution also is to make sure they do not become prompt dependent. Carol Trishasmom She isn't typical, She's Trisha! _TEAL_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TechnologyinEducationforallLearners/) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 ABA is applied behavior analysis. You can do a search for it online and find out more about it. Basically in a nutshell I understand it to be an extremely detailed evaluation, program, and assessment tool when working with a child. It is 1:1. You have specific goals based on a detailed eval of the child and you work on these goals with a lot of frequency, intensity, and duration and keep detailed records of the child's progress each time you work with the child. At the same time, if the child is not making quick progress with something, you would then assess exactly what the problem is and make changes accordingly. We homeschool and tend toward ABA in our home just because it is what we all work best with. We have just gravitated toward it over the years. I love it, and discrete trials which is under the umbrella of ABA, because we have several people working with my son and it keeps us all doing exactly the same thing with no variation and on track and shows us exact progress, which is nice for us to see as well as my son. With just standard skills-based therapy (we do use this as well) progress for my son is much more difficult to see and we end up working on things for a much longer time and much less specific goals. My son is essetially nonverbal and though he is an excellent communicator his expressive speech is such that this method makes it easier for us to work with him and evaluate him so that we know exactly what he knows and does not know. You can use ABA for anything..behavior, gross motor, fine motor, speech/language, academic, etc. Two things we have to be careful of when using this method is keeping the activities fun and exciting as well as challenging, and making sure what he learns in the activities is transferred to real life activities. I know there is a lot of discussion about ABA and whether it works or not out there. I can say that it works well for us and our son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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