Reply #94: for good reason

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Give ABA more credit. Conventional special ed classrooms engage in crisis management. ABA teaches independence. It's still relatively new, hence the lack of exhaustive research. Give it time.

ABA works. I use it (I teach kids with autism) and I've watched it work. I think we're fanatical about it because of the amazing things we've seen in our kids that have come about from using ABA principles. It necessitates one-to-one teaching, careful analysis of behavior patterns, rigidity and predictability.

I love my job, and I love my kids. You're right -- the parents want anything to help their kids. It's so utterly devastating, someone who doesn't have a kid with PDD/ASD will never fully understand it.

It's my job to make sure that my kids are as independent as they can be. In my opinion and from a huge amount of personal anecdotal evidence, it works and can be used to teach anything.