The ABA Parent Place

Welcome to the ABA Parent Place! This resource center was developed to aid and support virtual learning, and provide you with information for at-home instruction, behavioral support, and more!

DISCLAIMER: The information provided on this website does not, and is not intended to, constitute medical advice; instead, all information, content, and materials available on this site are for general informational purposes only. Applied Behavior Analysis techniques should only be utilized under the direction and supervision of a qualified ABA professional. Additionally, this website contains links to other third-party websites. Such links are only for the convenience of the reader, user or browser. APTS and its members do not endorse the contents of the third-party sites.

Welcome

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Meet the Behavior Team

ABA: The Basics

ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis is a field of behavioral science that is specifically applied to human behavior. Individuals who practice ABA are called BCBAs or Board Certified Behavior Analysts. Additionally, there are also BCaBAs (Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts) and RBTs (Registered Behavior Technicians) who work under the close supervision of a BCBA to provide behavior analytic services.

ABA provides a scientifically based way to support skill acquisition across a variety of populations, both typically developing and those with neurodevelopmental disorders, young and old.

What is ABA?

ABA Introduction Video: What is ABA? (Video by Relias)

APA, DSM, What’s With All the Acronyms?

ABA: The Basics (PDFs)

Function Junction: What’s the Function?

ABC Data Sheet Resource

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Proactive Strategies: Antecedent Interventions

Reinforcement Strategies

Ethical Use of Punishment Strategies: Some Guidance

Skill Acquisition Program Basics

Skill Acquisition Overview

Discrete Trial Training (DTT)

DTT Intro Video 1

DTT Intro Video 2

DTT Error Correction

Example Programs

Disclaimer: Please DO NOT IMPLEMENT any of these programs without first communicating with your APTS Behavior Specialist and obtaining training, coaching, and supervision of the implementation. This is for student and parent protection. While these are all reinforcement based strategies they do require student specific adaptations to be successful. Additionally, the presence of any new intervention can effect other interventions and patterns of behavior and needs to be done carefully with supervision of a licensed and board certified behavior analyst (LBA/BCBA). You can use these as examples of skills which can be taught, as well as the general procedure for many of these programs. If there are skills you wish to work on with your student, please contact your Behavior Specialist/Analyst to have more student specific programs developed to meet the student’s needs.

Example Program PDFs

Resource Center

Skills Assessments

Skills Assessments PDFs

Pre-Programmed Sensory Fun

Pre-Programmed Sensory Fun PDF

Pre-Programmed-Automatic-Reinforcement-Sensory-Stimulatory-Activities-List

Preference Assessments

Visual Supports

Token Economy Systems

Social Stories

Social Stories PDFs

Toilet Training Resources

Toilet Training Resources (PDFs)

Free Online Learning Resources

Lesson Plans

Welcome to Learning Time: Calendar and Morning Routine

Let’s Make a Calendar

Parts of the Body Song

Music

Oro – Visual Music

20 Minute Kids Music Class

Clap Clap Clap Your Hands

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Where is Thumbkin?

Virtual Kids Music Class

Shaker Songs!

Stretch and Sing!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Rub Your Hands

The ABC Song

Old Macdonald Had a Farm

Come Under My Umbrella

Munchkin Mozart Magic Musical Light Up Cube Toy

Virtual Field Trips and Interactive

Great Lakes Now

Museum Virtual Tour

Birthplaces of Music

National Constitution Center

Interactive Constitution

Colonial Williamsburg

Physical Education (P.E.) PDF

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Art

Art PDFs

Vocational and Life Skills

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Science

Matching to Sample

Matching to Sample is a way to teach students to identify certain stimuli and sort them based on category! We can work on identifying items within a category (think pick all the kitchen items), we can work on matching same item to same item (find the picture of the table and match it the picture of the table), we can even work on teaching students to categorize, match, and sort when it comes to picking letters when we say the letter, the letter sound, etc. See the hand out for more information on what this teaching strategy is, how to use it, and ideas of what you can teach!

Matching to Sample (PDFs)

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Math

Reading and Comprehension

Reading and Comprehension PDF

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Writing and Pre-Writing

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