What are the components of a good ABA home program??

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This follows from another thread about aba and lack of intervention services.

I have just contacted about everyone who is anyone in my area about ABA. There exists 2, yes 2 qualified ABA therapists in the whole town. Considering 1 in 4 children has a learning disability, thats not too good.

So I am going to set up my own program. I am reading Gina Green/C Maurice' book on behavior and have the help of a person who had done a home program and who is a childrens advocate.

What made/makes your home programs successful and what should i be looking for to include? I am really interested in verbal behaviour and also want to do errorless learning (i.e. not saying no all the time, but using prompting instead)

any ideas greatly appreciated. I am sure there are so many parents in my position. I cant afford much less get a qualified graduate of ABA so needs must!

Urgh, don't have time to post now but will have to come back to it as I can burn your ears off with advice!! I'm still not sure about the ABA therapists issue as we never had ANY "qualified" ones..... we had some with experience, many with no experience but potential (often better imo) but a very good supervisor. The Supervisor is the key, more important than the consultant. Will post later or tomorrow.

Hi Davros, please burn away. I need to soak up as much info as possible in the shortest space of time. I just feel like i have wasted so much time already. I have the theory of aba down pat, but now its just putting it into practice!