Victoria Boone is a fellow author and BCBA. She is the founder and director of The Hamilton Center. Today we are discussing her book, Positive Parenting for Autism.
ABA has been a hot topic lately. Victoria shares her perspective on the misconceptions. A lot of what Victoria explains comes back to finding the right provider. Most of the myths in ABA surround working with the wrong provider, setting, or team for your family and the child’s needs. Unfortunately, the few bad experiences had by some give the whole field a bad name.
In order to combat these problems, we discuss some questions and ideas to keep in mind when looking for the right provider for your child and family. Victoria has a great perspective on the use of ABA and how well it works when it’s done right!
In her book, Positive Parenting for Autism, Victoria shares explanations for extinction versus punishment and the use of differential reinforcement. These are great tools for stopping problem behaviors and increasing good ones! She gives some examples and ideas of the psychology behind these when they work.
Positive collaboration between parents and professionals is so important in the ABA and autism field. Victoria shares the same sentiment as I do in that parents are the experts on their child, the captain of the ship.
This is a great baseline for beginning to shift parenting to building up desired behaviors, and understanding the “how” and “why” in finding good ABA. I highly recommend checking out Victoria’s book, as a tool for understanding positive parenting and the effect reinforcement has on your child’s behavior.
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