[SPAM]Re: [SPAM]Re: Re: Speech & Behavioral Therapist-Houston

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I have also found it kind of strange that Texas Children's chose the

DIR/floortime approach rather than ABA. I don't know much about how

DIR works but as a behavior analyst, I don't really see how some of

those things in the list below could even be taught without breaking

those complex concepts into smaller skills and incorporating

behavioral or learning principles in some way.

>

> > It has always been very interesting to me that Bridges chose a

modality

> > that

> > has no solid research to back it up-but that's what happens when

the wife

> > of

> > the president of Texas Children's gets to run the show.

Floortime, while

> > it's currently being studied, was developed by a psychiatrist

who never

> > bothered to conduct a study to see if it was even effective.

Apparently

> > Texas Children's is so uninterested in science based

interventions, so

> > rather than choosing ABA, they chose something unproven and

charge people

> > a

> > LOT of money for it.

> >

> > " Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great

> > scientist.

> >

> > They are wrong: it is character. "

> >

> > Albert Einstein

> >

> > From: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

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> > On Behalf Of Dr.

> > Graham-Garza

> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:21 PM

> > To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

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> > Subject: [sPAM]Re: Re: Speech &

Behavioral

> > Therapist-Houston

> >

> > I gotta put in my two cents here - we lasted in Bridges for a

month - at

> > that time (Oct. 2004) it was VERY poorly run, very expensive and

a

> > complete

> > waste of our time.

> > Re: Re: Speech & Behavioral

> > Therapist-Houston

> >

> > Did the Meyer Center not tell you about their Bridges Program

for children

> >

> > up to 7 years old? Bridges is a comprehensive therapeutic

program that

> > provides floortime, speech and language, occupational and

physical therapy

> > for

> > children with developmental challenges and their families.

> >

> > _http://www.texaschildrens.org/carecenters/Bridges/faqs.aspx_

> > (http://www.texaschildrens.org/carecenters/Bridges/faqs.aspx)

> >

> > CReece

> >

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