3. Let’s talk about ABA therapy. ABA posts outside this thread will be removed.

Let’s talk about ABA therapy. ABA posts outside this thread will be removed.

My son has had in-home play-based ABA off and on since shortly after he turned 2 (he’s 9 now.) He had all of the other therapies too: OT, PT, Speech, educational intervention, and Special education pre-school once he turned 3. The one thing that is unique to ABA is the amount of time they spend with your child. Initially we started ABA because my son was not trying to communicate. The speech therapist had authorization to come 3 hours a month, while the ABA therapist was allowed to work with him for 15 hours per week. It made a huge difference in his development. He’s in ABA now and they are primarily working on skills that he needs to play with peers. He wants to play with other kids and it’s painful for him if they don’t want to play with him so the skills that he’s learning in ABA is important to his happiness. Also he likes his therapist and looks forward to her visits.
Since it has all been in-home therapy I have supervised it all, and the company that we work is 100% receptive to any concerns that I have. Just like everything else, there are good ABA companies and bad ones. There are different approaches too. It can’t be written off as one thing. In our case I am just trying to provide a way for him to acquire skills that he needs to do things that he wants to do, and only ABA has been able to accomplish these things. Our school system turned out to be so pathetic that I am homeschooling him now.

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