Re: Broward County Star Program

December 11, 2008

What are your concerns? What bothers you about it?

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> I'm trying to find something good to say about this program.

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December 11, 2008

I am not involved in that county and don't even knwo which state you

are referring to.. but I thought I would ask - is this a program that

is based on the Original STARS programs ? Basically icons and pecs ?

ABA D/T does get that brownie button of being Scientifically proven

due to H.Con.Res.91 in which Congress deemed it to be the ONLY proven

scientific program. With my own son.. we did a 'Lovaas' program for

2 years..as I was still with my ex and lived in California at that

time. So even though I was facing 'denial' from mom (He's just slow),

I still ran a program based on the ME Book. Once his responses seemed

to become 'robotic' or 'pre programed' I decided placement in public

school spec ed with services galore was the way to go as he still had

a 1:1 aide and ABA is even now at age 15 used to introduce new

things...once he is comfortable other systems are used in his (what

other word can I use...hmmm, someone got mad once when I stated this)

program. Visual cues are good for him when it comes to planning as he

is on top of it.

E. , Sr. The Office of Advocacy for Autistic Children

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> It lacks any one-on-one ABA, for one thing and therefore is not

> scientifically based because the original program included ABA. It

relies to

> much on visual prompts and ignores the need for verbal instruction

which is

> used in typical classrooms. These children are autistic, not deaf.

> Instruction needs to be more individualized.

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