Wednesday, February 3. 2010
Weakening the Evidence for ABA Therapy - Is it Our Fault?
Posted under: Research
A recent research study by Dawson and colleagues has created both excitement and frustration for some proponents of ABA therapy. The study, conducted in a randomized controlled trial design, was published in the November 2009 issue of Pediatrics and demonstrated that behavioral intervention with toddlers resulted "in significant improvements in IQ, language, adaptive behavior, and autism diagnosis." ("Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: The Early Start Denver Model" Pediatrics, November 2009). However, proponents of ABA have pointed out that the New York Times coverage failed to mention that the study uses applied behavior analytic principles (http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=aba+therapy&id=905ac454e81811bf6f06a9117f2f8761) and that the CNN coverage perpetuated a common misconception about ABA by comparing the pleasing, playful therapy of the study with "ABA, which is delivered at a desk" (http://blog.navigationbehavioralconsulting.com/).
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