Re: Re: ABA therapy in school and home programs

[Guest guest]

<<She's back to screaming and trying

to get out of doing the work. When that doesn't work, she tries to be

silly and " sings " to herself and looks at her hands.>>

finally mastered the ultimate escape tactic. She hates speech therapy so

after she had exhausted all other methods she just closes her eyes and goes to

sleep sitting up.

The therapist always feels so sorry for her like she didn't get enough sleep the

night before or whatever and I know dang well she's gonna be up and rocking and

rolling the minute the SLP walks out the door. It's very difficult to get her to

perform a task while she's sound asleep LOL.

Sherry

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Ecki, for sharing Kayla's program. is also being non-compliant at

the moment- part of that toddler thing!

By the way, does Kayla use PECs? started this school year with this

program and is having gradual success. We use it in combo with sign

language.-

To: @...: yulan@...: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:57:10

+0000Subject: Re: ABA therapy in school and home programs

Kayla has a similar program. She is in a full day/5 day a week self-contained

preschool class. Her 1:1 aide also administers the discrete trials (5 programs,

2 times a day) and the behavioral consultant comes in 2 - 3 days a week to

design the programs and oversee the progress. The behavioral consultant also

comes to the house for about an hour every Saturday. I love the home component,

even if it is only an hour a week. I like to see what they are doing since the

school is 30 minutes away and it's not convenient to drop in every week what

with gas prices being so high. I also like it because the behavioral consultant

is a contractor so she can talk honestly and openly about what is actually going

on in Kayla's preschool class. And of course I like to see what programs they

are doing.Our behavioral consultant doesn't think Kayla needs an intense 40+

hour week ABA program. We are basically using the discrete trials to help her

meet some of her IEP goals, although she is also following the ABLLS as she

designs the programs.As far as the ABA itself, Kayla's making good progress, but

she's being terrible noncompliant again. She's back to screaming and trying to

get out of doing the work. When that doesn't work, she tries to be silly and

" sings " to herself and looks at her hands. But they keep plugging on.EckiMom to

Kayla (DS/ASD, 4/5/04) and Laurie (PDD-NOS,

7/12/01)http://oppositekids.blogspot.com/--- In ,

McDonnell wrote:>> I was curious to know what

folks' experiences have been with ABA therapy for their children. My son, ,

initially received a few hours a week of ABA last yr. (at 3 yrs. old) at the

private school he attends. It's a full day program-most of the students have

Down Syndrome, only and another boy (who is 8 yrs. old) are dually

diagnosed. receives OT,PT, and speech through the therapists at school, as

well as sensory integration sessions, and exposure to all of the activities that

go on in a pre-school, hence the reason why he is in school from 9am to 3 pm

every day. The ABA component is provided by our school district. has a

full-time one-on-one aide who is ABA trained and administers his discrete

trials. She is supervised by the district's behavioral consultant(who comes to

school every week for 1-2 hours) to oversee how 's trials/programs are

being run. is up to 3 trials per day, plus the aide reinforces the

behavioral strategies throughout the day. Overall, is making good progress

with the ABA program-there are trials that he has successfully completed and

others that require a lot more time.> > I recently met with the behavioral

consultant and she suggested we may want to consider more therapy for ,

like directed play therapy or additional ABA at home. > I feel that

already has 30 hours of school/therapy per week and at 4 years old this is a

full schedule, however, I certainly don't want to hold him back from getting

more of what he could benefit from. During the week would be difficult, because

by the time he gets off the bus from school and has a snack it's after 4PM- a

long day and he is tired- so maybe Saturdays would be an option. What do you

think? So much of what I have read applies to children with autism only and

those home-based programs run anywhere from 40 to 60 hours per week. I'm not

aware of any literature that discusses ABA therapy in the dual diagnosis

population.> > In all honesty, could probably benefit from more SP,OT,and

PT too, as he is very delayed in these areas, but there is only so much time,

energy, and maybe developmentally, he is just not ready.> I struggle so much

with ( as I'm sure many of you do too) with creating the right balance of

therapy/education or whatever else would be of benefit, with just having some

time off to relax and do fun things! > Your experience and input is so valuable.

Thank you for listening to me ramble. Sometimes our childrens' needs can be very

overwhelming to manage- it has been one of those weeks. I especially feel it

because is our only child and my husband, as much as he loves ,

doesn't seem to fully understand the big picture and thinks I worry to much.>

Humph- easy for him to say when he works approx. 60 hours per week and basically

sees only on the weekends.> > Best,> > Mom to , 4yrs. old>

DS/PDD-NOS> > > >

[Guest guest]

Oh this is so ! When he was 6ish, his aide taught him how to sign and

say, " I want two cookies " of course they delivered everytime he asked. I think

there were days he ate an entire sleeve of oreos! To this day it is the only

sentence he still has or the only string of words for that matter. He still

says it, insists on two and has a fit if you just give him one!

Yes, they are so smart!

Jayne

eckidatri wrote:

We do use photo cards of all of Kayla's foods for snack and meals. The

school taught her the signs for " cookie " and " pretzel " so now she's

constantly going up to the teachers and signing " cookie " all day, LOL.

She even signed " cookie " at breakfast one day. When I told her we were

having waffles and signed " waffles " she just signed " cookie " again and

pointed to the letter " C " on an alphabet placemat she uses. She's

smarter than we think! So I let her have a cookie for breakfast that

day!

Ecki

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