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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ABA, with a focus on verbal behavior. I’d start by determining what language skills are actually missing that is making this difficult. Typically pragmatic language requires “lower-level” / prerequisite language skills that are often overlooked. I’d get a full receptive and expressive language evaluation to start with and focus on missing skills before trying to address pragmatics as a whole.[/quote]

I would also get a full speech evaluation as that is expressive speech and if language is a struggle talk therapy will be too.  Aba will not help.  [/quote]

I don’t disagree with getting a speech eval too but if you think ABA is useless then you clearly haven’t met an experienced ABA provider specializing in verbal behavior.

Speech and ABA can work together, actually very good to do it that way. [/quote]

NP. Can you explain a little bit about what ABA might look like for a tween with pragmatic language deficits?  My tween has a relatively new ASD diagnosis and the neuropsych report mentioned pragmatic speech therapy as being helpful. How many hours a week would ABA be? I thought it was usually a lot of hours. Or maybe that’s just for younger kids?  It’s so hard to find information on ABA for kids who are diagnosed later and fall into that space between anxiety/ADHD/ASD without meeting the classic presentation of any of them. [/quote]

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