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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean by "does it work?"  What is your goal?
Yes, any amount of ABA will help your child learn skills.  But contrary to what people have heard, it will not "cure" your child or make them look "normal" if you do "enough" of it.  But it will teach them specific skills in a systematic way, which is all to the good!  Don't feel guilty about "only" being able to do it short term.
And depending on the age of your child, the school system could/should be providing ABA![/quote]

This is the OP again.  Sorry, to clarify, what I meant was because ABA (from what I've read) relies on a strong relationship between provider and child, I was wondering if 2 months would be worth it....or if that's just not enough time for the therapy to make a difference.  It's going to be about $4800 for 2 months out of pocket, so if doing it short term doesn't make sense in terms of ABA, I was hesitant to move forward with it.  DC is in speech and OT now...so this would be supplemental.  [/quote]

What is the specific issues.  We are just in speech and OT.  We do speech several times a week and OT once a week.  If it is primarily a speech issue and you can handle your child behaviorally I'd put the money into more speech.  The ABA therapist really tried hard and I liked her BUT her speech assistance was very simplistic vs. the actual speech therapy and we got far more out of it.  If you are looking for specific behavioral issues, then ABA is the way to go.  If it is just speech and we have a significant delay, I will say that as the speech is very very very slowly coming in, everything else is coming so separate out the speech related behaviors that are based off of lack of speech vs. other issues.  If you have mid-moderate autism, I would absolutely do it.  Otherwise, increase the speech therapy.  I wouldn't pay out for ABA but I would speech.[/quote]

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