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Ole Ivar Løvaas (8 May 1927 – 2 August 2010) [1] [2] was a Norwegian-American clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.He is most well known for his research on what is now called applied behavior analysis (ABA) to teach autistic children through prompts, modeling, and positive reinforcement.
Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author, activist and television personality Jenny McCarthy. [1] Her previous book, Louder Than Words, reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in print after five printings.
ABA is an applied science devoted to developing procedures which will produce observable changes in behavior. [3] [9] It is to be distinguished from the experimental analysis of behavior, which focuses on basic experimental research, [10] but it uses principles developed by such research, in particular operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Exploring Feelings: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Manage Anxiety. Future Horizons Inc. ISBN 978-1-932565-22-5. Attwood, Tony (2013). From Like to Love for Young People with Aspergers Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): Learning How to Express and Enjoy Affection with Family and Friends. Jessica Kingsley Pub. ISBN 978-0-857007-77-3.
Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) is considered the most effective therapy for Autism spectrum disorders by the American Academy of Pediatrics. [18] ABA focuses on teaching adaptive behaviors like social skills, play skills, or communication skills [19] [20] and diminishing problematic behaviors like self-injury. [21]
Jennifer Lynn Cook (formerly Cook O'Toole; born October 24, 1975) is an American author and speaker. [1] She is known for her six Asperkids books, which have been translated into six languages and include the winner of the Autism Society of America's Book of the Year Award.
According to the book In a Different Key: The Story of Autism (2016), Leo Kanner's original 1943 paper stated that "the child's aloneness" was evident "from the very beginning of life." Furthermore, he drew a contrast between autism and schizophrenia, in that autism was part of a child's constitution whereas schizophrenia developed later in ...
In the book, Rimland asserted that autism was not a psychological manifestation caused by unfeeling parents, [4] a widely held belief popularized by Bruno Bettelheim. [3] Instead, Rimland suggested, autism was a result of biochemical defects "triggered by environmental assaults".