| Applied Behavior Analysis therapy is the most | | | | allows everyone who teaches the child to stay on the |
| successful and highly recommended treatment for | | | | same page. Parents and educators work hand in hand |
| autism spectrum disorder and it is one that has shown | | | | to shape behaviors and to teach concepts, and data |
| the best results for educators within public and private | | | | analysis sheets highlight what is being done as well as |
| school systems. There are a number of different | | | | what is truly working. When a child performs well at |
| elements to ABA therapy, and one of the key | | | | home but not at school, or vice versa, these sheets |
| components involved is data collection. With ABA, the | | | | allow parents and educators to work together to see |
| goal is to use techniques such as prompting and task | | | | what differences are creating the problem. They also |
| analysis to break concepts and behaviors down into | | | | allow all parties to determine the behaviors that are the |
| teachable steps. With data collection and analysis, it | | | | most immediately necessary so that everyone can |
| becomes easier for educators and other professionals | | | | work on teaching the same thing. |
| to understand behavior patterns and to measure the | | | | There are many studies that show that ABA therapy |
| progress of the child. | | | | in schools is the most effective way to ensure that |
| When you implement ABA therapy into your school | | | | children with autism spectrum disorder receive the |
| system using a DVD course or other means, data | | | | best education and the best chance of being able to |
| collection is very important. In most cases, a child will | | | | learn in a classroom with their peers. These children |
| interact with different teachers and guidance | | | | are often highly intelligent, but they often miss out on |
| counselors each week. Keeping accurate data that | | | | learning opportunities because they are never given |
| highlights behaviors, responses, and progress enables | | | | the training they need in order to learn. ABA training for |
| everyone involved to see what is working and to | | | | teachers is very important, and data analysis can |
| assess which types of prompts or teaching methods | | | | make a significant difference. When the goal of your |
| work best for the individual child. This makes it much | | | | school system is to ensure that you are truly teaching |
| easier to teach the child using the most understandable | | | | every child, implementing proper Applied Behavior |
| and effective methods possible. | | | | Analysis training is certainly a very crucial step to take. |
| Another benefit of proper data collection is that it | | | | |