Guest guest Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 I like to know what others think when the word ABA is used. My guess is that most people think of ABA as using Discrete Training Trials (DTTs). In my very humble opinion, DTTs with repetitive (and endless) trials to achieve 100 percent success is NOT appropriate for older children, or even sometimes for some at any age. Speaking from personal experience while homeschooling my son, I find that sometimes I bore the " heck " out of him by repeating things that he probably already knows or have picked up on his own just to achieve %100 success rate. I have often noticed that he could miss the very trivial tasks that I know for a fact that has mastered just out of boredom while I am probing his skills. Also, he could be stimming one second and fail the trial but when done again without stimming, he achieves it at one hundred percent. However, ABA encompasses a lot more than just DTTs, and I don't think that the principles of ABA and using it in terms of reinforcement, prompting, fading, shaping, breaking tasks into small steps, errorless learning,...etc is limited to any age. I also like to add that eventough I use a lot of the principles of ABA in my teaching , I am not limited to it, and I do believe that different kids learn in different ways far more than just one teaching methodology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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