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[quote=Anonymous]15:33 here.  OP, what is your child's age? Ours was two ish when we did ABA so your MMV when it comes to my advice. By any chance are you also the poster of the Shapiro thread? I also responded there. Anyhoo, my take on ABA for non-autistic kids is that scientists/physicians like to recommend it because the therapists take data off based on their interaction with a kid. They count how many times they can get a kid to respond a desired way or to say a desired thing.  ABA people can then create lots of graphs and charts and percentages and they can also publish scientific papers which "prove" that ABA is successful. This kind of proof is very appealing to science-types.  Other kinds of therapists don't typically spend their time recording this kind of data, good ones just take notes, record progress in a narrative and make lesson plans.  One thing that particularly bothered me with ABA is that it  can be practiced by people with just a BA and a certificate whereas pretty much any typical OT/PT/ST in private or county practice has at least a master's degree. It also tends not to be reimbursed by insurance. That being said, there are providers whose staff are more educated than the place we went. Because our kid didn't have any social or behavioral issues it was assumed that we didn't need a higher level therapist.  We were only doing four hours a week because we were already getting county services and also because I refused to put all my eggs in one basket in terms of types of treatment.  I assume you have already connected with Infants and Toddlers and are getting services from them.  For us the biggest leaps forward happened because of an excellent county PT who helped my kid learn to walk and an excellent private ST who diagnosed the cause of my kid's difficulty learning to speak (and knew how to treat it).[/quote]

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