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Your report provided insights that can improve the quality of life for those affected by autism. The behavior-modification techniques used in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) lure parents into believing that their children can be "fixed," or at least trained to act appropriately. In my experience, ABA works at finding solutions without necessarily providing an understanding of the cause of the problems. The Floortime method is a long-term solution that teaches children how to communicate and helps them repair problems at the foundation. My child with autism has had experience with both methods. Floortime takes more time, effort...
...core deficits of children who suffer from autism: a lack of flexible thought and spontaneous communication, and lagging social and emotional development. It emphasized the role of emotion in learning, something that people have known for years and yet somehow tend to underestimate. In describing the philosophy behind ABA and Floortime, your report will help parents make a more informed decision...
...despots, dictators and presidents-for-life (of the kind found in Africa) will be a miserable minority among world leaders. Those like the King will no longer be described as suprising. Able and people-oriented leadership will have become a norm and no longer an aberration. Gabriel A. Amadi Aba, Nigeria Aiming for New Gamers Nintendo's new game controller is quite intriguing [May 15]. As a nongamer, I quickly saw beyond its recreational use to its potential in other areas. For example, could the movement and motion described as part of the gaming experience be incorporated into a program...
...want to thank TIME for writing an unbiased review of Floortime and ABA. Too many articles prop up one approach over the other without giving an honest summary of both. I work within both models as a special-education teacher. Your article highlights the pros and cons of each in a fair, unbiased way. The goal is to choose what works for an individual child. Many, many children benefit from both models simultaneously or at different times in their childhood. Treatment is not a competition between ideas; it is a matter of finding what works at a particular moment with...
Your story gave a really helpful overview of the body of research on autism. I was pleasantly surprised to see TIME recognize that studying how mercury in vaccines might affect the body is a legitimate route of inquiry. Your even-handed comparison of ABA and Floortime was in that same vein. When parents hear a diagnosis of autism, they might assume that their children will never get better--but they...