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Our son is autistic—we have a provisional medical diagnosis. He’s 4 now. We started him in speech therapy when he was 22 months and came off the waitlist for occupational therapy when he was 26 months.
We held off on ABA because our son responded so well to the play-based therapy he was receiving and his therapists and developmental ped./ped. were of the opinion that ABA should be the option if we weren’t seeing improvement or we saw major regressions.
Our son is/will be mainstreamed. Happy to connect if you want to PM me. ☺️
Level 1?
Occupational therapy helps my kid. He’s almost 4. I still don’t know how I feel about his ABA services. We’re moving away from home sessions to more school and having an RBT help at school.
Got it- my kid is level 1, so my experience with ABA might be different from a level 2/3 child.
Focus on what you want your child to work on. For us, it was controlling his epic meltdowns, which has helped. We did a mix of at home sessions and sessions at the center, and gradually moved to sessions at school (and that’s what I’d like to focus on, and eventually drop home/center sessions). We also had to go through a couple of therapists before finding one that really clicked with him.
I know there is a lot of negative feedback on ABA, but my son really likes his therapist, who has really helped him the most with confidence at school.
Worth reading some of the opinions of autistic adults re: ABA. Many say it caused a lot of trauma for them. I know things are not as aggressive now, but base case is that you’re using a reward system to stop your child from doing what feels normal to them.
Everyone has their own perspective on this. It’s mostly a (neuro)diversity point. We chose to do other forms of therapy for our son. He is in a blended classroom (end of kindergarten) in a public school, with an IEP. He is doing well. Bullying comes into play and his life is harder, but he’s an incredible little boy and I’m very happy with the therapies we’ve had.