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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has been used to promote learning and change of behavior using basic principles of behavior analysis. One of the most common applications of ABA is in the field of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. There are individuals who strongly advocate for bringing change through ABA, while there are others who are strongly opposed to it.
In this assignment, you will describe both sides of the argument. Find journals or blog entries that seek to strengthen or demean ABA in the field of Autism and other related disabilities. After having listed both arguments, write your perspective on the topic. Based on what you have read and what you have described, do you find merit on either argument? Is there a different point of view that wasn’t discussed that would sway you one way or another?
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Running Head: APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Applied Behavior Analysis
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APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
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Applied Behavior Analysis is the use of motivation and learning principles based on the
behavior analysis, and the processes and expertise resulting from those doctrines, to the
clarification of complications of social impact. There are many types of research done upon
decades that authenticated the treatments centered on the use of applied behavior analysis. The
socially dominant conducts that are scrutinized by the ABA comprise of communication,
understanding, schooling, and the general public skills (Epling & Pierce, 1986).
The advocators of the ABA approach describe the primary functions of the processes to
be used to provide support to people with autism in several ways that include increasing their
normal behaviors like strengthening means growth on the soc...
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