Ming from Agents of Speech compares ABA and speech therapy. ABA runs five days a week for 2.5 to 3 hours per session and can restrict other activities. Speech therapy is typically once weekly for 30 to 45 minutes and focuses on coaching parents.
Five days every week.
Around 2.5 to 3 hours per session.
Three hours a day.
At least once a week.
Around 30 to 45 minutes per session.
ABA is a lot more intensive than speech therapy. And ABA is like five days every week. And each session is around like two and a half to three hours, which is pretty intensive. And some ABA centers even go as far as to asking you, hey, man, you cannot go to like, other therapies. You cannot go to school. You must come here. And that's because research by ABA therapists say that it's three hours a day is the most effective way. On the speech therapy side, we typically see a child at least once a week and each session would be around 30 to 45 minutes. So you see the discrepancy is huge. Right? So why is it like that? Because ABA is more of a done for you service. It's like, I will do it for you and you have to do it under my rules. And our research backed up. And SD is more like I'm doing with you. I'm going to teach the parent, you're going to sit in, I'm going to tell you what to do. This is my rationale. I'm working with other professionals. Whereas aba, they much rather have their own team around one child, okay? Have their own methods and own behavioral approaches towards a child.
