Re: Re:Marcia/Therapies

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Marcia, what type of doctor is Dr Fosnot? Does she mainly focus on therapies?

 

Thanks

 

Karla

From: and Marcia Hinds <hindssite@...>

Subject: Re:Therapies

rfear@...,

Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 7:35 AM

 

Ranee,

Whatever works for your child is what you should do. Language should be a

major part of it and

nobody should do ABA for 40 hours a week. We did about 10 hours formally

but were trained in the principles so we could informally use them with our

son 24/7. There is not one way to do this. You know your child best and need

to trust your gut.

As I said before, good ABA is just good teaching and doesn't have to be

called ABA for it to work. The people rather than the method are the most

important ingredients for success. I had a speech person from the school

district who worked with once a week. She was fabulous and used the

principles of ABA without knowing what they were; reward and reinforce the

behaviors you want to increase and learn. She also loaned us language

materials to use to work with because once a week is not enough for our

kids.

I hope you don't think I meant ABA is the only way, but I do disagree with

Dr. G when it comes to ABA as not being good for some of our kids. Having

said that, he is my hero for saving my child and I will always be grateful

to him, but we do disagree on this point. I think he is remembering the old

ABA which was extremely negative. If done correctly, and often it is not,

ABA is totally positive with ignoring undesired behaviors. Dr. G and I have

agreed to disagree.

For some of the more severe cases and for kids who are older than yours when

they found Dr. G, it is essential to get kids to attend. For older kids they

have more to learn and the behaviors we want to go away are more ingrained

because the kids have been doing them longer. If you can't get a kid to do

anything, you can't teach them anything.

Good ABA moves to more natural teaching as soon as a child is ready. It also

can be done by

people trained by the parents so it tends to be less expensive. I wish we

could all afford

Dr. Fosnot. I hear she is wonderful!!! And I would have loved to have had

her when was younger, but she wasn't part of the team then. So we had

to find another way. There is more than one way to get this done and one

cure doesn't fit all. There are a lot of different issues for different

kids. Just use a method that works for your child. That is

all that matters.

Marcia