How Do You Use Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy For Autism?
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Therapy can help with autism. Talk About Curing Autism defines autism as “a devastating neurological and biological disorder typically affecting children between the ages of 18 months to five years of age. Autism affects each individual differently and at different levels of severity. Some individuals with autism are severely affected, cannot speak, and require constant one on one care,and are never able to live on their own. While others are less severe, can communicate, and eventually acquire the necessary skills to live on their own.” Autism is defined as developmental delay that includes symptoms of speech difficulties, lack of eye contact and isolation. The behavioral symptoms of autism include abnormalities of language and thinking skills, repetitive behavior called “Stims” such as rocking movements, walking on tiptoes, and flapping arms and hand gestures. Autistic people have abnormal responses to sensations, people, events and objects. They are
