Ming @ Agents of Speech explains why ABA works for autistic children: it targets specific behaviors like aggression, waiting difficulties, toilet training, and rigid routines with systematic methods designed to help them function in a neurotypical world.
ABA deals a lot with disruptive behaviors or problematic behaviors as we call it. And that's why ABA is more suited for children or people on the autistic spectrum because they do have some behavioral problems that need to be addressed if they have to survive in a world with mostly just us neurotypical people. Right. So therefore ABA addresses these behaviors head on, no matter if it's violent tendencies. I've seen children who cannot line up. They cannot take waiting. And there's also like toilet training. And also their rigidness, like ritualistic behavior, meaning lining up toys, putting up puzzles nicely or else if you put it in one way, they don't like it. You sit one place, they don't like it, that kind of stuff. ABA has a systematic way to help them cope with being okay with not having their way in the life. So Ava is good for that. And also their focus might be to help a child to be okay living in our world.
