ABA therapy is the most widely researched intervention for autism. With 40 years of scientific research on Applied Behaviour Analysis, it’s a structured, scientific approach that improves social skills, communication, self-care and learning skills.

If you’re a parent of a child with learning disabilities or autism, you may be struggling to manage your child’s behaviour at home.

Or perhaps you’re going through the process of diagnosis, and feeling overwhelmed and stressed with the potential challenges you may be facing.

One of them is deciding how to best support your child and this is how you most likely came across this blog.

First of all, you and your child will meet a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst who will gather as much information as possible about your child.

(Always make sure you are working with a BACB-credited ABA Specialist).

This will be done through an interview and a formal assessment such as The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) which assesses the language, learning and social skills of your child.

This assessment will provide crucial information about your child’s current level of skills, and areas of strength, as well as highlighting areas where your child needs support. Based on the assessment, targets specific to your child’s needs will be set.