Applied Behavior Analysis is a science focusing on understanding and improving human behavior by discovering environmental variables that reliably influence meaningful behavior.
Skills Worked on in ABA:
- Communication: Speaking, gestures, and functional requests for needs/wants
- Social Skills: Initiating play, appropriate greetings, and maintaining eye contact
- Daily Living: dressing, grooming, and hygiene
- Emotional Regulation: reducing challenging behaviors, coping mechanisms, and problem solving
What We Offer
- One-on-one support in and outside of the classroom.
- The ability to pull students out of the classroom to work on skills individualized
to meet their needs. - Parent/caregiver guidance and training for practicing skills taught in therapy, across home and community environments.
- Collaboration with speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists within CRCC.
Want to Learn More?
Please contact ABA Director Bri Abraham at babraham@crccomaha.org.
ABA Resources
Helpful Websites
www.autismnebraska.org
www.wrightslaw.com
www.howtoaba.com/parent-training
Books
The Verbal Behavior Approach by Mary Barbera
Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice
ABA Visualized: A visual guidebook for parents and teachers
by Van Diepen, Morgan Alexandra
Free Online Training Modules
Autism Internet Modules www.autisminternetmodules.org
Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules afirm.fpg.unc.edu
Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment thompsoncenter.missouri.edu
NE Autism Spectrum Disorders Network asdnetwork.unl.edu
Research Articles
Treatment Gains from Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) are Maintained 10
Years Later Smith, D., Hayward D., Gale C., Eikeseth, S., Klintwall, L.
The Top 10 Reasons Children With Autism Deserve ABA Mary Beth Walsh
