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  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects children's development due to challenges in emotional and sensory processing, which can be addressed through tailored therapies like applied behavior analysis (ABA).
  • A study analyzed the effectiveness of ABA-based treatment on 16 children with ASD over 12 months to enhance their independence in various skill tasks.
  • Results showed improvement in skill performance from the beginning to the end of the treatment period, indicating that ABA methodologies can positively impact children with ASD.

Article Abstract

Introduction: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has characteristics that have been observed to develop over time, such as the difficulty of affective, sensory, and emotional processing, which trigger some problems during childhood, limiting children's development. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is among the therapeutic approaches for ASD, in which treatment can be tailored according to the patient's objectives.

Objective: Based on ABA, we aimed to analyze the therapeutic strategy for independence in different skill performance tasks of patients diagnosed with ASD.

Method: This is a retrospective observational case series study including 16 children diagnosed with ASD who received ABA-based treatment at a therapeutic clinic in Santo Andre city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Individual task performance of different skill domains was registered in the ABA+ affective intelligence software throughout the 12 months (from January 2021 to January 2022) of routine treatment.

Results: The evolution of skills was observed between the T0 and T1 intervals, with improved skills over the observed period.

Conclusion: The strategy based on the ABA methodology improved children's skill performance over the observed period.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10169625PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1093252DOI Listing

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