Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis

Presenter: Christina Low Kapalu, PhD

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5 functions of behavior? That's new to me.

[Eilisrock]

Regarding the Early Start Denver Model: Sally Rogers has stated that using operant conditioning for language is a mistake that BCBAs continue to make. Regarding 25+ hours a week, Sally Rogers says this: “What the data are saying is that the kids are getting enough in other places or other aspects of their life that those additional hours aren’t adding. And I think this is really, we’ve really got to take this seriously because you know this 30 and 40 hours a week. This serves people who are, I’m sorry, but we know, are selling intervention. This is exhausting for families. It’s exhausting for children. We have never had any experimental evidence to support that, ever. There is not a single study that’s ever supported the benefits of that much therapy.
I think mine is the very first study that’s ever actually experimentally manipulated hours. And if we were thinking okay, 15 hours is a good dose, these are little kids remember, think about how many more children could get treated out of the same number of therapists we have, if we were delivering really, really high quality 15 hours a week plus parent coaching. We don’t know that it would make any less effect on kids and it would double or triple the amount of services we could provide.

[monikakrall]

Neurotipical people cannot teach their form of communication to autistic people as their non autistic behaviour is caused by their neurological wiring.More bluntly they don`t think about what they do, just act according to their neurological program, so do we autistics. It is like there is a computer program who responds a certain way and we want to change that by punishing the computer with a nice slap on the screen when it says something undesirable, or giving it  a cake when it says something desirable, it is a clearly futile action. Just like a program can only be changed by changing the program, take the processor out and put a different program in it. As we are not computers, our processor = our brain cannot be taken out and changed which means our program cannot be :) The right approach is treat autism like a different language, as we autistics are very intelligent but we communicate on a different language!

[jshir]

In my experience, ABA, nouthetic/biblical counseling, conversion therapy, or just old fashioned bullying and abusive parenting are all different sides of the same object.