ABA | applied behavior analysis | behavioral cusp | complex | cumulative hierarchical learning | pivotal response training
A therapy program that focuses on the complex behaviors that are required to improve a specific child's quality of life may be able to really help a child with autism.
People with autism often do not appear to think or act in a complex way. The authors say that while most treatment programs treat simple skills, they do not treat complex skills. The authors describe in this paper the concept of the "behavioral cusp." Behavioral cusps are specific skills (pivotal response interventions) that are taught in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy to help the child do complex things. The authors go further and state that these specific skills allow the child to learn to think and learn in a complex way: a process that they refer to as "cumulative hierarchical learning."
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