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Evaluating the effectiveness of ABA-based approaches for teaching functional skills to children with AS
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Jane Summers McMaster Children’s Hospital, Ontario, Canada
2005

Evaluating the effectiveness of ABA-based approaches for teaching functional skills to children with AS

$47,000

For educational planning, it is important to know that children with AS can be effective learners and to understand how this learning occurs under simple paradigms of behavioral modification and analysis. Jane Summers’ work has been instrumental in documenting the learning abilities of those with AS and in illustrating to other educators and therapists how applied behavioral analysis (ABA) can improve learning and change behaviors in AS.