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Behavioral therapy has been the most effective in treating autism in the last few decades. ... The most successful form of behavior therapy used with autistic children is ABA therapy. ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis. ... ABA therapy, formerly referred to as the Lovaas method, was once considered too aversive and is just recently proving to be just the opposite of that negative connotation. ABA therapy is an intensive program tailored to the child’s individual interests, abilities, and needs. ... With a child’s therapy so carefully centered on what he/she can do and needs to do, there is a greater opportunity for the child to learn more than he would have if he had been learning in a distracting or confusing environment.
With ABA therapy, the main goal for the child is to have the behaviors that distinguish him from others and the learning challenges that keep him behind his peers diminish. ... To tackle a child with autism’s short attention span, ABA breaks tasks down into small steps. ... Another problem autistic children have is in understanding abstract concepts. For this problem, therapy begins with abstract concepts paired with simple language and then progressing on to more complex language until the language becomes ‘natural’. ABA stresses imitating people because children will learn from others what they would not have themselves. ... ABA teaches leisure skills so they will have something to do instead of going off into their own world. ... ABA tries to create a balance between the three. ...
A key characteristic of ABA therapy is the discrete trials that usually involve one-on-one sessions with a therapist that help the autistic child learn language, play, and social skills.
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