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.

ACT is recognised by the National Institute of Health- National Registry of evidence-based practices and is supported by over 300 peer-review journal articles.

In simple terms, ACT tells us to “Live a rich, full, meaningful life with less struggle.”

ACT suggests that we should avoid using or teaching strategies that attempt to suppress, control or eliminate negative thoughts. Instead, ACT teaches us to practice accepting these negative thoughts and feelings and suggests alternative ways of interacting with them.

Precision Teaching focuses on four main principles which are

• The child/learner knows best

• Focus on observable behaviours and describe these using pinpoints

• Use frequency measurements

We love these principles at All Behaviour Consultancy. We always adopt a person-centred approach and aim to focus on the person and the environment.

We wholeheartedly believe that the child knows best, which means that if the individual is not learning, then it is due to the environment or the teaching methods.