Should Parents Be in the Therapy Room or Waiting Room?
When Lucas was two years old, before his diagnosis of autism, we took him to speech therapy sessions weekly at our local hospital and the speech therapist that worked with him was great. She really taught me a lot. I was allowed and encouraged to be in the therapy room. They also had an option […]
Which is Better ABA or Verbal Behavior?
I’m Dr. Mary Barbera, Autism Mom, Board-Certified Behavior Analyst, and author of the book, The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders, which was published in 2007 and is now available in 10 languages. https://youtu.be/bA_IZgtTi1IOccasionally, I get a question, something like, “Which is better? ABA or verbal behavior?” This is […]
Do You Think Like a Behavior Analyst?
The last two weeks, I talked about two different books by Dr. Glenn Latham. This week, continuing on talking about books that have made a positive impact on my life, I’d like to tell you about a book called “How to Think like a Behavior Analyst,” by Dr. Jon Bailey and Mary Burch. This book […]
My Verbal Behavior Approach Book is 10 Years Old: 5 Things I Learned
I never had a goal to write a book. It happened mostly by accident. As you may know I fell into the autism world in 1999 when my first-born son, Lucas was diagnosed with autism one day before his third birthday. I then became a Behavior Analyst in 2003 and started focusing most of my […]
Is Autism Recovery Possible?
Did you know that up to half of children diagnosed with autism can recover if they are treated with ABA therapy when they are very young? It was first shown that kids with autism could become indistinguishable from their peers in a classic study done by Dr. Ivar Lovaas published in 1987. That was 30 […]