| For many parents, the first sign that their child may | | | | skills, it offers a chance at a better life. With |
| have an autism spectrum disorder comes around the | | | | intensive ABA training, which can be as much as |
| time when they should be developing language skills. | | | | forty or more hours per week, these kids learn to |
| This is almost always the first sign that parents | | | | express thoughts, emotions, and concepts in an |
| receive that something may be different about their | | | | appropriate verbal manner. This often creates |
| child. While children in the same age group are often | | | | positive patterns of behavior that make it easier for |
| learning to say mama and daddy or asking to go to | | | | them to integrate and fit into a traditional classroom |
| the potty, children with ASD are often content to | | | | setting. In essence, ABA can help teach kids how |
| play with toys and show no desire to communicate. | | | | to learn. |
| ABA therapy can help to change this. | | | | |
| | | | | ABA therapy is excellent at teaching language and |
| There has been a great deal of research completed | | | | communication, but it can do much more. It can also |
| on Applied Behavior Analysis therapy over the past | | | | help these children learn how to recognize patterns |
| thirty years. Not only do studies show that it is the | | | | and sequences. Learning through the discrete trials |
| most effective form of treatment for autism | | | | and repetition of ABA helps to create new synapses |
| spectrum disorders, they also show that it can be | | | | in the brain that can enable students with autism to |
| the best tool for teaching language and | | | | start learning in much the same way as their |
| communication skills. Research states that ABA | | | | classmates. This is certainly quite a remarkable feat, |
| therapy is most effective when started as early in a | | | | and it has given many children a great deal of hope. |
| child's life as possible, and children diagnosed at the | | | | If you are the parent of a child with autism or an |
| age of early communication certainly tend to see the | | | | educator looking for a better way to teach your |
| best results from the therapy. In fact, many | | | | students, ABA therapy is a great choice. Designed |
| children treated this early are able to communicate on | | | | to help teach language, social skills, and academic |
| par with their peers by the time they reach school | | | | skills, it can equip autistic children with the tools they |
| age. | | | | need to function both in the classroom and in the |
| | | | | world as a whole. |
| ABA offers more than just a chance at language | | | | |