ABA Applied Behavioral Analysis
Video Summary
In this clip Thomas Gelb, the Executive Director of the Children's Center, explains what applied behavioral analysis, or ABA, is, and how it is used at the Children's Center to help children on the spectrum build social and daily living skills.
"Children who come into the program come in with no verbal communication, no social, and when they come in they just tantrum on the floor. "
— Thomas Gelb, Executive Director, The Children's Center
Keywords
- General Behaviors
- tantrums
- Social Interaction
- lack of relatedness
- Therapies
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- therapy strategies
- Verbal Communicative Skills
- lack of expressive language