ABA and TEACCH

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The national sociey of autism here in America endorses a policy of " options "

(meaning choices) wherein each parent of a child with autism is to choose the

correct methodology for their child given that our children can be so different

in their strengths and deficiencies. I think that even though a lot of autism

societies say that they are only offering choices many do indeed have their

preferences and in a sort of casual way, make their preferences known.

Unfortunately, often their preference is not ABA. It's really a shame to ask a

parent that is new to all this to make these kinds of choices at such an early

stage. Perhaps your autism society offers what mine does: county or regional

contacts who can advise such parents in an informal way? Perhaps that would be

something you could suggest....

If I had to go into a lengthy comparison of ABA and TEACHH it would be too

long for me to take the time...suffice it to say that I had a certified teacher

in the public school system once say to me: " TEACCH is valued because it is

easy and cheap to implement in the classroom. " Notice that she did not say that

TEACCH is better for the child. The main difference is that ABA and good

teaching techniques aspire to actually teach our children while TEACCH just says

here he is, what can we do with him with the strengths he has, and then go about

their busywork. Please, no flames, I am doing my best to answer a question

honestly. in TN