more stupid questions re starting program

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Okay, so we have a consultant through the school district, and he's

told me a couple of programs to do with my daughter until the next

time we meet. I'm concerned that we could/should be doing more. The

developmental pediatrician we saw prescribed at least 5 hours/week of

ABA (though I think she modified the wording to " behaviorist " so as

not to freak out the school district). We had a very good one, but

the SD didn't fund the behaviorist, and we can't afford to shell out

(hourly rate is quite high).

We're on L.I. in NY (Nassau County). There's a program near us

(Genesis School), and I met some therapists. They are not BCBA, but

have been working in the field for nine years. My daughter is five,

has Asperger's, and is starting to be mainstreamed. When I spoke to

the chattier of the therapists, she was doing a lot of talking re

charts and reinforcers and so on. Does this sound like straight

tabletop work to you? Does anyone know about the Genesis School? Is

it straight Lovaas? Because from what I've been reading, AVB sounds

more like the way to go for my daughter--if one of her issues is

generalizing and redundancy, it makes way more sense to me for her to

know multiple ways of expressing the same thought.

I'd really welcome any thoughts. I apologize, by the way, for the

fact that I rarely post except to ask really stupid newbie questions,

but I'm really not sure where to go, except to other experienced

parents.

The consultant keeps stressing that social skills are more important

than academic, which I'm sure is true, but since cognitive is a

relative strengths, to me it makes sense to help her wtih abstraction.

Might as well capitalize on what she *does* do well.