LONG TERM OBJECTIVE

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www.Autismpartnership.com
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What is ABA???

• Behavior Analysis is a Psychological Approach
  Developed in the Late 1800s to Increase the
  Understanding of Children, Adolescent and Adult
  Behavior
• Applied Behavior Analysis is the Application to
  Help Improve Life
• It is Simply OUTSTANDING TEACHING

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Whats OUTSTANDING Teaching?

• High Expectations
• Powerful Motivation
• Breaking Skills into Smaller Parts
• Giving Clear and Accurate Feedback
• Practice, Practice, Practice!
• Developing Independence

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Range of ABA
RIGID
LACKADAISICAL
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STRUCTURED
FLEXIBLE
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Theres Rigid and thenTheres BAAAAD!

• Primarily Uses Food Reinforcers
• Focus is on Irrelevant Curriculum
• Uses Unnatural Teaching Techniques
• Alternative, Eclectic and Unproven Approaches

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Components of Effective Educational Programs

• Functional Behavior Assessment
• Powerful Reinforcers
• Reactive Plan
• Proactive Plan
• Teaching Learning HOW to Learn Skills

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Components of Effective Educational Programs

• Ongoing Data Collection, Evaluation AND Decisions
  Made Upon the Data
• Focus On Language Development
• Emphasis On Social Skills
• High Expectations!

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What is FAPE?
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Sense and Nonsense It Has To Be Said!
Ronald Leaf, John McEachin Mitch Taubman
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