Research: Applied Behavior Analysis: Beyond Discrete Trial Teaching

Authored by Steege, MW, and Mace FC in Psychology in the Schools, Volume 44, Issue 1, p. 91-99, (2007).

Article summary (posted Jul 3, 2007):

Parents need to look carefully to make sure that their children are receiving true Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy from public schools.

Many public schools use an autism-specific ABA program. These programs may be called ABA, but the teachers really only spend 45 minutes per day doing ABA. This is much less than the 25-40 hours per week of ABA therapy that should make up a real ABA program. The authors wrote this article to define ABA therapy and describe what ABA therapy should look like in the school system. The authors note that many programs that are called ABA are really just discrete trial training (DTT) and not as good for treating autism as a real ABA program.

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applied behavior analysis (ABA), autism, discrete trial training (DTT), parent, psychologist, public school, school, therapy
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