Applied behavior analysis (ABA) techniques can be combined to help children replace aberrant behavior with functional communication skills.
The purpose of this study was to see if two therapies (milieu therapy and functional communication training) could be combined to help children replace bad behavior with language. The authors measured increased communication skills, decreased use of prompts, and decreased bad behavior in three young children with autism at home and in the classroom. They found that prompts decreased with the therapy. Communication increased and bad behavior decreased to almost zero with therapy. All of these skills were generalized to untrained settings and persons.









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Responding to relationship development intervention (RDI)
Jan 6, 2012 by AnonymousI am a parent of an 18 yr. old young man with ASD who we have been doing RDI with for the past 3 years. Once we began the program his life and ours changed. He now initiates conversation with us - true conversation, with give and take, perspective sharing, observations are related and my interests considered. He is much more other-focused and considerate. Outbursts and anti-social behaviors have been significantly decreased. Our household is so much more calm and life normalized. His ability to make study us during communication (total body language - faces, posture, tone - not just the words said) and approrpriately respond and interpret this non-verbal aspect of language is really imporved and remarked upon by family/friends and teachers. He is able to do this on his own, no prompting, no scripting - it is becoming "normal" and happening as expected. We are completely satisfied with this program and while costly, it has delivered the results where others haven't. It really changed his life. I work in Special Olympics and have a control group to compare him and this intervention against as a result. His progress compared against his peers (same age/ school experiences/ but different interventions) is significantly better. We very much look forward to how far he can go.
AUTISM = California ABA Behavior Analysis + Special Education is the "3 in 1" Autism Therapies Treatment in California & Singapore
Oct 13, 2011 by AnonymousSt. Andrew Autism Center is the Help and service provider in Singapore for autism therapies in ABA behavior intervention and special education.
Autism is an EPIDEMIC affecting Singapore children. The "3 in 1" Autism Therapies Treatment of " Autism + ABA + Special Education" is to help children with Autism, ADHD, Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Giftedness etc and related disabilities with learning, emotional and developmental needs to develop the communication, academic and social skills necessary so that they can successfully participate in their Singapore MOE schools or pre-schools, and communities.
SeokLay Lau MA in Special Education, California State University Los Angeles, CalABA member.
Seoklay Lau's Public Profile <http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/seoklay-lau/34/621/5b>
AUTISM = California ABA Behavior Analysis + Special Education
Sep 22, 2011 by AnonymousAUTISM is an EPIDEMIC affecting Singapore children.
To help Singapore children with Autism, ADHD, Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Giftedness etc and related disabilities with learning, emotional and developmental needs to develop the communication, academic and social skills necessary so that they can successfully participate in their MOE schools and pre-schools.
Seoklay Lau MA in Special Education CSULA, CalABA member.
Seoklay's Public Profile <http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/seoklay-lau/34/621/5b>
Responding to picture exchange communication system (PECS)
Jul 25, 2011 by AnonymousPECS is amazing! At first i was hesitant to try it, thinking if its really even gonna work. I'm so glad we did! My son started on PECS at the age of 4, and had no words in his vocabuary. Now I'm so thankful to say At the age of 5 he is a pro at his PECS book he says I WANT... what ever item he is asking for, he can now say every word in his book up to 40! he is now starting to ask for thing without the book! The PECS book helped so much with tantrum because he is able to express to us what he wants!!!!!