Who can Applied Behavior Analysis or ABA help?

ABA isn't just a treatment for Autism.

ABA isn’t just for autism. ABA can help a wide spectrum of people of varying aging and diagnosis such as:

• ADHD
• Autism
• Down Syndrome
• Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD)
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Selective Mutism
• Anxiety
• School refusal
• Conduct Disorder

What Is ABA Therapy?

ABA therapy is a specific systematic and structured approach to changing behaviors. ABA is based on a scientific understanding of how behavior works and how individuals learn.

Where does ABA therapy take place?

In a clinic, out in the community, in a school setting or home…we cant think of many places we wouldn’t go to assist with behavior.
ABA therapy may look different for everyone since it is dependent on the individuals needs.

For example; Therapy may be one-on-one to work intensively on specific skills but can also be in a group format.

How can ABA help?

ABA can teach new behaviors and potentially decrease unwanted behaviors. Just some of the skills ABA has been used is to work on:

• Social skills
• Communication skills
• Language acquisition
• Academic skills
• Attention and focus
• Play skills
• Self-injury
• Self-management skills
• Impulsivity
• Tolerating
• Waiting

At Behavior Strategies, every client benefits from the hands-on supervision and involvement of our founder and clinical directors Jamiee Spinelli Hill, and Patricia McDonnell-Megahey, backed by a talented team of professionals. If you’re looking for ABA therapy for your school and/ or family member, contact us today, click here.

Learn More: To learn more about the ways that ABA can improve a persons quality of life and the information found in this post, please refer to
Heward, W.L., Critchfield, T.S., Reed, D.D., Detrich, R., & Kimball, J.W. (2022). ABA from A to Z: Behavior science applied to 350 domains of socially significant behavior. Perspectives of Behavior Science, 45, 327–359.