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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the ABA for?  For our very high functioning AS/ASD 4 yr old, our developmental pediatrician suggested ABA for specific skills such as dressing, using the potty but ultimately he learned to do it himself after working on fine motor skills in OT.  OT was covered by our insurance.

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Well, he can do those things. Its mostly based on the research that I have done. 
I think he struggles with joint attention which I think ABA will help. See this article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=early-intervention-autistic-children
Also this article for ABA for aspergers/mild autism: http://www.ctfeat.org/articles/aspergergracielarevfin.htm

And the recovery stories that we hear about: http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20090511/researchers-see-recovery-from-autism
http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/08/autism-a-journey-of-recovery/

Supposedly, its the mild cases that have the better chance of a "best outcome"[/quote]

Ask your developmental ped if he thinks ABA will be useful for helping with joint attention.  The linked article shows ABA to be useful for austic kids with speech delays or no speech at all.  It's great that you have a specific issue in mind for ABA.  Our developmental pediatrician initially recommended Floortime for DS but we found it to be useless for the issues we wanted addressed specifically playing and more engagement with other kids at school but worth a try since this is DS's main issue.  He does well academically and he is mainstreamed with an IEP at a language immersion school.  We never tried ABA but worth a try if you can.  Good luck! [/quote]

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