| For many outsiders looking at ABA Therapy for the | | | | The child is then asked the same question and |
| first time, there are a lot of questions. One of the | | | | prompted to respond. Clues are often given, though |
| most common questions parents ask is how teaching | | | | over time they become vaguer until the child is |
| a child to repeat an answer that they are given to a | | | | expected to answer without prompting. This is a |
| question can teach them anything beyond rote | | | | valuable tool, because it helps not only teach the child |
| memorization. While it is true that initial goals of ABA | | | | to properly respond to questions and requests, but |
| Therapy include a great deal of teaching children to | | | | because it helps providers teach children what types |
| mimic answers to questions, the therapy is part of a | | | | of behavior will get results. |
| rewiring process that teaches their brains to produce | | | | When a question is asked, only appropriate answers |
| nerve synapses that many brains perform naturally. | | | | and behavior will garner any result. Any inappropriate |
| As this development occurs, children develop the ability | | | | behaviors are ignored, teaching children over time that |
| to think critically and independently, ultimately leading to | | | | proper behavior is the only way to gain attention or |
| skills and functions that help make them virtually | | | | favor. While answering questions helps children to |
| indistinguishable from their peers. | | | | learn new things, this aspect of ABA Therapy also |
| Many critics of ABA Training have seen the therapy | | | | teaches fundamentals of behavior and of giving |
| only a few times and formed an opinion. The fact is | | | | importance to human interaction over other stimuli, |
| that ABA Therapy is the only treatment approved by | | | | things that other children learn much differently. |
| most health insurance companies for children with an | | | | In conclusion, repetition is truly a fundamental part of |
| Autism Spectrum Disorder. The reason for this is | | | | ABA Training, but it is not in an effort to teach rote |
| that it simply works. For decades, ABA Therapy has | | | | memorization. Only through repetition can thinking |
| been preparing children with varying degrees of ASD | | | | patterns within the brain adapt and change themselves, |
| for school, work, and other social situations. While it is | | | | and only through repetition can these children be taught |
| most effective when introduced during toddler and | | | | the basic fundamentals of behavior and social |
| preschool years, a majority of people with an ASD | | | | interaction. While to outsiders this repetition may |
| can see a significant improvement with ABA Training | | | | make little sense, for parents who have seen it teach |
| at any age. | | | | their children to think independently, the value of this |
| Repetition plays a strong part in ABA Therapy. A | | | | aspect of ABA Therapy is remarkably obvious. |
| child is asked a question and provided the answer. | | | | |