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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

Introduction
 Therapy based on learning and behavior.
 Target: Autistic children who has been diagnosed with ASD (2-4 years)
 3 principles
o How behavior works
o How behavior is affected by the environment
o How learning takes place
 Goal: To increase behaviors that are helpful and decrease behaviors that are harmful
or affect learning.
 Advantages:
1. To increase language and communication skills.
2. Improve attention, focus, social skills, memory, and academics
3. Decrease problem behaviors
4. Effective in reducing disruptive behaviors (self-injury, tantrums, non-
compliance, & self-stimulation)
 Disadvantages:
1. Might not be suitable for low functioning children (do not recognize
rewarding system)
2. Robotic behaviors and could not think independently
3. criticized the discipline and practice of ABA with
accusations of unethical behavior, ineffectiveness,
promoting learned helplessness, destruction of
internal motivation, and psychological abuse and
trauma.

 Strategies:
1. Positive reinforcement: source of reinforcers
 Individual tends to repeat the behavior if input with rewards
 Reward should be rare and limited
2. Antecedents, behavior, consequences (ABC)
 Antecedents: what occurs before the targeted behavior
 Behavior: individual’s response or lack of response towards the
antecedent
 Consequences: positive reinforcement after a desired behavior/no
respond for unwanted behavior
 LOVAAS Approach
1. For children who have developmental delay & autistic symptoms.
2. Goal: to begin early intervention to help the children to gain communication
abilities and skills in education and activities of daily living.
3. Breaks skills down into simplest components and reward children with
positive reinforcer (generalize the skills into natural environment) (habit,
trained, and used to it)

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