Strategies to Teach Key Foundation Skills to Young Children with Autism

• By: Ann-Marie Sabrsula, MS The Arc Westchester Children’s School for Early Development
• January 1st, 2021
• ABA, behaviors, language, reinforcement, teaching, verbal behavior, winter 2021 issue, young children
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Children with autism have both strong and weak points when it comes to learning – like all children. A significant tendency to progress at different rates across developmental domains is generally the case. Further, there can exist an uneven performance within a single area. Since language is a...

From Crisis to Competence – ABA Used to Improve Communication Skills in Developmental Center

• By: Vivian Attanasio, BCBA James O’Brien, BCBA Amy Bukszpan, BCBA Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• April 1st, 2015
• ABA, functional communication training, mand, verbal behavior
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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a science wherein procedures, based on basic principles, are applied to important matters of everyday life in order to help individuals increase functional skills, while decreasing problematic ones (Cooper, Heron, & Heward, 2007.) Most notably, ABA has been...