Posting later than usual. I usually have these written on Thursday night to post as soon as the link-up page goes up. (I’m on the West Coast so it’s 10 p.m. PDT for me.) Last night, however, my mind was a little too scattered so I decided to just skip this week. Then, I was awoken this morning by my clowder (the word for a collective of cats) who apparently can see the bottom of their food dish and felt that 5 a.m. was an appropriate time to tell me. (Cats, you are SOL. Go wake up the other adult human.) So… here we go!
Orphans. Do you see this handsome boy?
Brett needs a mama. Are you his mama? Click on his picture for more information.
Prayer request #1. I’ve been chosen to speak at the Promise Walk for Preeclampsia in San Jose this year. (My fundraising page will be public soon.) They’d like to use my 5-7 minute spiel as a fundraising piece so I’m having to get it written by this weekend. Could y’all pray that I can do this? I have no fear of public speaking but I do need to get this written. Please and thank-you.
Prayer request #2. I know I’ve been really vague about my special intention for the last two weeks and I appreciate everyone who has been praying for it. Could you please continue praying for discernment for those involved, that I would be able to forgive, and that I would have consolation and peace in the midst of the waiting game that is going on? Thanks!
A good definition of ABA. For those who read my Simple Woman’s Daybook posts, you probably see me mention ABA therapy every week. This is a good explanation of what it is. For those who don’t have time to read the article, it’s a methodology for working with autistic kids where you achieve the behavior desired through reinforcing it and you modify the behavior by modifying the antecedent (what comes before the behavior).
Stopping here. I honestly don’t have anything else this week so I’m stopping here. Have a lovely weekend!
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That is an excellent introduction to ABA. It, however, had a completely different definition by my autistic brother: hell on earth. He described that ABA completely ignores the cause of the behaviour it wants to correct/eliminate, or the impact of the behaviour it wants to enforce, it only deals with the cause that the therapist perceives. Efrayim has often stated that the therapy caused sensory overload, that resulted in major melt downs and later depression. My parents pulled him from ABA therapy when he was 9, enrolled him at a democratic school, and he thrived afterwards while struggling in an all-day, ABA therapy pased, self contained class for children with Autism. Yet, many of his classmates did wonderfully with ABA, and are now relatively independent adults with professions and sometimes families of their own.
He is still unable to maintain eye contact for extended time periods, and he does some weird things, but he is also happily married and a father of three and small business owner. It just shows that there is no one size fits all therapy, but for many, many children and families ABA therapy is such a great help! I am so glad it works for Daniel!