Re:Marcia/Therapies

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HI Marcia:

for teeth grinding, what would you recomend? This is something that my girl has

since she was 1 year old, and is very hard to stop.

Thanks

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

> Subject: Re:Therapies

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

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> Ranee,

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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

> can be done by

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> 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.

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> Marcia

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