{"id":243,"date":"2012-02-26T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2021-09-07T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:07:25","slug":"what-is-aba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/faq\/what-is-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ABA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A notable treatment approach for people with an ASD is called applied behavior analysis (ABA).\u00a0ABA has become widely accepted among health care professionals and used in many schools and treatment clinics.\u00a0ABA encourages positive behaviors and discourages negative behaviors in order to improve a variety of skills.\u00a0 The child\u2019s progress is tracked and measured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are different types of ABA.\u00a0 Following are some examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Discrete Trial Training (DTT)<\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> DTT is a style of teaching that uses a series of trials to teach each step of a desired behavior or response. Lessons are broken down into their simplest parts and positive reinforcement is used to reward correct answers and behaviors.\u00a0 Incorrect answers are ignored.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI)<\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> This is a type of ABA for very young children with an ASD, usually younger than five, and often younger than three.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information obtained from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/NCBDDD\/autism\/facts.html\">www.cdc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-2000x1333.png 2000w, https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vectorstock_27843734-1800x1200.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) A notable treatment approach for people with an ASD is called applied behavior analysis (ABA).\u00a0ABA has become widely accepted among health care professionals and used in many schools and treatment clinics.\u00a0ABA encourages positive behaviors and discourages negative behaviors in order to improve a variety of skills.\u00a0 The child\u2019s progress is tracked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/faq\/what-is-aba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is ABA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":156,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/1837"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}