What is ABA Therapy?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is an evidence-based and scientific process that aims to improve behaviors and assist in skill development. While anyone can benefit from ABA therapy, Milestones DFW specializes in applying ABA therapy to children with an Autism diagnosis.
The Goal of ABA
The goal of ABA therapy is to help the child or patient to develop a robust set of behavioral skills, such as social skills, communication skills, and independence skills, that allow the child to reach his or her highest potential in all of his or her common environments.
Over time the ABA therapy process results in:
- discovering the "why" of behaviors exhibited,
- an improvement in the behaviors that are targeted for increase,
- a decrease of the behaviors targeted for reduction, and
- your family understanding and learning the tools needed to continue progress.
ABA is a scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries.