Explain ABA Tutoring to me please?

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I am just wondering what it is, how to get into it and so on. I want to work with kids in their home environment and am looking for nanny work at the moment, but someone has recently mentioned looking at becoming an ABA Tutor to me and I'm generally curious. It was mentioned to me last year and I couldn't find much information on it, I was offered a position of somethign I think is similar at a nursery before (working one-on-one with a child on the autistic spectrum) and they told me they'd train me how to do it but I ended up gettign a different job as they couldn't get the funding for him to have this.

So, what is ABA Tutoring, do you need specific qualifications for it or is it something you can learn as you go? Can you get qualifications for it? How can you get into it?

Watching with interest.

I'd love to have my son in school 3 days a week and maybe a little home tutoring as he finds school so very stressful.

He has ASD and OCD.

Interesting thread if anyone knows the answer?? Could be a niche market thing in which case def something worth training in

We're also currently looking into this for our DS, and wondering if we can do it ourselves? I'm at home with DS 4 days a week and although neither of us has done any psychology quals, we both have degrees and DH is a teacher, so is it something we can do ourselves? Or do we have to employ a tutor? And if so, how do we find one who is good. From what I have seen so far it doesn't seem like something we wouldn;t understand, as parents.

Watching with interest? Can anyone start us off in the right direction please?

You can do it yourself but it isn't the easiest route. I'd recommend most parents understand it and copmplement the programme 'out of hours' iyswim for the best results. However, parents do do it, and certainly can.

Regardless, try and get some live training from a qualified practitioner. Get a flexible consultant to train you and then monitor the programme as often as your budget can manage.

Confused, where in the country are you based?

I'll be in Essex in May, but then I move around a lot. I'm mainly just curious and thinking of possible career options for when I get back from travelling, but if I could start working on something now I'd feel better about having nothing on my CV for 4/5 years!

Working with special needs kids has always interested me to a certain extent, however I've never been sure of what I want to do, just that I want to work with children outside of the curriculum, work with a range of ages and do something with improves their lives in some way, even if it's ust getting time outside or gaining small skills.

Do you need a degree to do ABA Tutoring with a child who's not your own? I'll look into tutors in Chelmsford and see if they will allow me to shadow them or something :)

Okay, you wanna come and do an afternoon or two with DS? Training is set up for Monday 18th April but I'd need you to commit for a few months. Course I'd wanna meet you first. If suitable we'd pay your travel.

PM me if interested.

You don't need a degree although some providers do insist on one. Many pscyh university students will do some ABA tutor work whilst studying. The important thing for me would be that the tutor was committed, fun and confident and that there was a good supervisor or consultant in place to set the programmes. It is the setting and monitoring of programmes that requires the expertise - anyone reasonably competent can deliver the programmes eg we did it as parents for a year and nursery staff did bits of a programme. PEACH, Autism Partnership and Treehouse run introduction courses. Providers like AP (who we use) also run their own in-house training. ABA Yahoo site often has details of families looking for tutors. Some tutors without experience will start off as volunteers and then charge when they are trained up. Treehouse often has vacancies for tutors at its school in North London.

Starlight: Where are you based? I apparently have to give two weeks notice to my current employer and am handing it in tomorrow. I'm in Bath at the moment.

Agnes, thanks for the info, I'll look up the companies/charities :)

I'm on the Essex Herts boarder. Happy for you to begin in a couple of weeks but will need you at the training.

PM me if still interested.

Thank you for the opportunity Starlight, truly and honestly! Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to make the training though and admittedly things are going topsy turvy with the accomodation I had planned and I'm stuck looking at other options to explore at the moment. You've given me some hope that I could maybe look into this area of work though so thank you! :)