Behavior Management in Autistic Children is Part of ABA Therapy
In far too many schools today, autistic children are punished or even expelled for behaving differently from other children. Inappropriate behaviors such as hitting or even harming themselves are punished and scolded and children are labeled as being ill-behaved without ever receiving the proper training and treatment necessary. This does more than create a social stigma around autistic children; it also deprives them of the quality of education that they deserve. ABA therapy is a proven autism treatment that is used in many schools and can help teach children the behavior skills they need to thrive when in a classroom or real world environment. ABA therapy utilizes a number of methods for teaching behavior management. Discrete trial teaching, the most common part of ABA, uses prompts and repetition to teach these skills. Intensive ABA therapy is proven successful in helping children with varying degrees of autism spectrum disorders to learn the ...