ABA visit home

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When you instruct an ABA consultant, do they visit you at home as well as school?

School have asked an ABA consultant to come in and see another child and I have instructed her too to see DS. She comes highly recommended and is very well-respected.

She has asked to see DS at home beforehand.

Why is it when people ask this, I always think I'm about to be blamed for his behaviour??

I assume they work across settings so this is normal?

I'm having a bad day. AR tomorrow. Shitty council back in my life. We're asking for more hours so knives will be out again.

yes absolutely ... it's pretty much key to the analysis part of ABA.

The first visit we had from our ABA consultant was an epiphany ... he completely cut through the crap & got to the root of things. This was after months of portage where they told me I was doing everything right & there was nothing they could teach me & eventually they withdrew because I was too good at it to need support (I'd done Hanen by this point) and yet ds was making no progress. It was classic blame the child (in an oh so caring way) rather than look at what the teacher is doing wrong.

Yes is normal
Parents are an integral part of ABA and as you says it cuts across settings
DS level of functioning in quiet 1:1 space at home is very different than his ability to concentrate at school, so we insist LA EP see him in both as well as he comes across as far more able at home
Good luck for tomorrow

I'd welcome the opportunity with open arms.

One of ABA's great strengths is that it depersonalises the whole issue of who or what 'causes' the behaviour of concern. The issue is more that there are contingencies at play that need to be twaeked/rearranged to produce better outcomes.

ABA is SO NOT about apportioning blame. It is about analysing the behaviours of the child and finding ways to increase the helpful ones and decrease the unhelpful ones. If it becomes apparent that a parent coukd change something they do to improve outcomes you'll be told in a matter of fact non-patronising way with the assumption that you'd want to know, just as the advice will be given to the school. Never will a reason be given for a behaviour without a corresponding action/solution iyswim. What would be the point?

So you'll rarely get 'oh, that'd his sensory issues/your anxiety/his concentration problems' followed by a shrug an a review in six months. Really, if she is good you'll just have an overwhelming sense of relief that problems come with solutions and that she doesn't suffer from carrotitis!