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What is ABA? According to the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the design, implementation, and evaluation of environmental motivation to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior. Socially significant behaviors include communication, social skills, and activities of daily living, academics, and work skills. Based on the findings of descriptive and functional analysis, ABA uses antecedent stimuli and consequences to produce practical change. ABA includes the use of direct observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the relations between environment and behavior. ABA is based on the belief that an individual’s behavior is determined by past and current environmental events in conjunction with organic variables such as genetics. Therefore, it focuses on explaining behavior in terms of external events that can be manipulated rather than internal constructs that are beyond our control. The focus of ABA is to use objective and reliable measurement of observable behavior. NOTE: The trademarks "Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc.," "BACB," "Board Certified Behavior Analyst," "BCBA," "Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst," and "BCABA" are owned by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. All rights reserved. Copyright © 1998-2005 by BACB® All rights reserved. |
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