| parents of autistic children know, ABA Therapy is the | | | | taught about the sky and water and clouds and rain |
| only treatment that is proven effective for the | | | | before the concept of a thunderstorm can be |
| treatment of ASD. The only treatment covered by | | | | understood. ABA Therapy utilizes pictures and flash |
| most insurers and offered by most schools, ABA | | | | cards to help teach children basic concepts. |
| Training works to rewire the neurons in a child’s | | | | There are many applications of picture cards in ABA |
| brain, helping them to create pathways that are | | | | Therapy. In addition to helping to teach familiar |
| present in the brains of most children and allowing | | | | concepts, they can be used to help teach children to |
| them the ability to communicate and learn in much the | | | | identify details that are wrong or out of place, such as |
| same manner as their peers, and things such as | | | | shoes on a cat or a tree in the sky. Flash cards can |
| pictures help to make this more effective. | | | | teach ideas such as a sunset by showing the sun in |
| Autistic children are remarkably bright. One of the | | | | each phase, showing the progression from beginning to |
| things that make them different, however, is that they | | | | end and giving the child an understanding of how the |
| do not possess the same ability to express | | | | process works. |
| themselves as many people. They also learn | | | | In all, flash cards are a valuable part of ABA Training. |
| differently, needing to be shown things that other | | | | While ABA Therapy as a whole is the most |
| children simply pick up by observing their peers. ABA | | | | successful method of treating ASD, it is through the |
| Therapy works to teach children these fundamentals | | | | utilization of visual aids such as flash cards that many |
| of behavior and learning, and pictures are an excellent | | | | children see the most benefit. Flash cards teach |
| tool in helping to achieve this goal. | | | | children with ASD concepts that many people take for |
| While most children quickly pick up on concepts by | | | | granted. It is through the use of these methods that |
| observing them, children with ASD need to understand | | | | ABA is able to offer these children the hope of a |
| things a bit more clearly. For example, while most | | | | bright future, free from many of the symptoms of |
| children inherently understand thunderstorms in their | | | | ASD. |
| most basic form, a child with ASD will need to be | | | | |