ABA Mini-Manual: Level One

Book excerpt: The exercises in the ABA Mini-Manuals cover a broad array of language domains and illuminate the relatedness between them. This collection of exercises is intended to serve as a starting point for teaching language to autistic children who struggle to do so. The approach is systematic, integrative and constructional. There is sufficient procedural detail and explanation of purpose so it is clear to anyone engaged in this particular teaching approach how to proceed. This should be of value to anyone and may be of particular value to BCBAs needing to provide detailed procedures and purpose when supervising and writing goals to satisfy the stringencies of insurance companies. Users of this series may appreciate how targeted abilities are extended and integrated in fine grained, detailed steps leading to generalization and more complex abilities. The collection provides a valuable resource for BCBAs, family members or other professionals looking for ideas when writing goals, seeking help when thinking about how to build programs or if searching for guidance when confronting the intricacies, and complexities of building language based programming in the early stages of learning and intervention.