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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Against popular opinion, ABA has been wonderful for my child. But I will say I'm in the field of education, and I found the right clinician and demanded it be play-based. I also embedded the academic tutoring he needed and his speech needs in ABA. We've been blessed with two clinicians that were willing to work with us on this.

I would definitely do ABA if one of my child's main challenges was behavior. [/quote]

I’m a PP skeptic of the current ABA business model, but I definitely think it can work for some issues. I’m not that convinced how appropriate it is for emotional regulation issues for an older very verbal/HF child (like mine was and sounds like OP’s is). They tend to be infrequent and reactive to the particular environment so it’s not clear to me how ABA outside of the environment can help.

But if I had access to it, I’d totally hire an ABA professional to teach my okder kid to do practical things that don’t come easy to him, like using a map, taking the metro, asking for help in public … [/quote]

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