The actual goals selected for target; techniques for relationship and interaction.
incorporating more understanding into the foundations of setting events to the clients behaviors.
Diet, medication, exercise
Students who have experienced trauma, have anxiety or OCD, students with chromosomal exceptionalities
Research is needed to show if it's effective
Gerontology and environmental sustainability
Can be used with Students who are higher on the spectrum.
including OT and Speech as a branch of treatment
Incorporating speech and OT intervention
With trauma based clients (emotional disturbance)
Cultural aspects, physical impairments/disabilities
School
Mostly in skills' acquisition
Medication, neurology
Not sure what you mean by diversified treatment. I think ABA as a field is working on being more collaborative with other evidence based providers
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With increased understanding we may be more successful in addressing social skill and sensory interventions if research supports the use of these treaments.
Everywhere. All ages. All skill levels. There are so many opportunities to try new things.
Communication, feeding
Everywhere. We are not very diversified in general and we have a hard time trusting anything that isn't backed by behavioral sciences.
Mindfulness practices to address social anxiety or emotional coping mechanism
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral intervention in adulthood
Attention issues
It would be great for us to study more about the neurology of the condition. Also, it would be helpful to incorporate more CBT type interventions (in an ABA way) for our higher functioning kids. I would like for BCBAs to learn more about common comorbid conditions that many of our clients have.
More training for other disciplines on ABA.
Mental health, trauma, family struggles
Mainstream education in schools, general training for all parents
All
School
Biomedical treatments. There’s more to autism than social communication and restricted/repetitive behaviors.
Through assessment, other areas of treatment are identified such as speech, O.T, P.T depending on the severity or intensity, for example Verbal behavior functional communication training could be well developed to address the communication difficulties if there are no other physiological implication but the client may still require speech to address the structural aspect of the communication deficit
Interdisciplinary teams. More research on adults.
When it would benefit a child to combine multiple services
Speech acquisition, sensory-oriented behaviors and processing.
Different views
Speech
All
All areas. There needs to be a team approach and BCBAs need to collab with teachers and OT and Speech and medical.
Diversified? Not sure what that means specifically. SLPs contributing, of course. OT/PT input in ABA therapy, sure. More comprehensive treatment will lead to better outcomes as long as those treatments help inform ABA therapy.
Not sure
Other professionals can assist in treating specialized issues, for example Speech Language Pathologists working on swallowing or fine articulation issues. Other professionals may have insight into certain issues that are beyond the scope of ABA such as neurological issues, biological/medical issues, or psychological and psychpharmacological issues.
I do know
Behavior support plans
OCD tendencies, sensory sensitivities and social skills
much more consideration of neurological/medically related aspects of autism
Speech, Occupational therapy (NOT sensory), Physical therapy and Medical.
There needs to be an open mind to other treatments like animal therapy and music therapy
More understanding of development to further the efficacy of treatment at various life stages is needed. Especially over age 6
Not sure
Any and all
In both home-based and school settings
Socialization and sensory aspects
Multi-modal assessment including quality of life, biological factors, environmental factors, and psychological factors
Language w speech
School plans
Social skills, coping strategies, parent training
Speech and OT services
Functioning levels
More studies on adults with intellectual disabilities and squally diagnoses clients
community intergration
In all areas
Other environments, such as school, hospitals, and treatment facilities. BCBAs do not "own" any space outside of ABA clinics, so it is a good idea to become used to the idea of collaboration.
age differences
Compassion
I think there are a lot of avenues for diversified treatment, including speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, feeding specialists, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
I would like ABA to consider the different neurological development of kids living with ASD.
Cases involving mental health clients.
across all settings and skills
Psychological services, medical services
Implementing service components
Working closer with other professionals
Early intervention
Teenage and adult services need to be improved with consultation with other agencies that provide services long term.