The PBS Therapy Blog publishes helpful articles and videos with tips and information about ABA therapy for parents of children with autism.
This last weekend, the Special Needs community in South Florida came out to the 2017 Autism Speaks Walk. As always, the Progressive team came out in full force to get together and basically celebrate our shared commitment to working with our families, many of whom we had the honor of seeing. We spend far too…
One of Progressive Behavioral Science’s goals is to make ABA therapy as accessible and understandable as possible for parents. After all, ABA is an exploding field with so much research and data that it is enough, even in this age of information, to make heads spin. We at Progressive Behavioral Science have boiled a lot…
Tiffany N. Kilby is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and family member to individuals red-flagged for and diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Tiffany has been around autism since birth. Committed to spreading autism awareness, Tiffany became an extern (volunteer) for the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASATonline.org). Tiffany’s passion goes beyond spreading autism awareness;…
One scorching Miami day I sat in an introductory ABA course. I chose this course because it was rumored to be easy and I was a senior in College looking to perfect my GPA for Grad school applications. All of a sudden, the professor described something called “Applied Behavior Analysis”. He referred to it as…
We are making progress but we have a long way to go before people truly “get” special needs children. It’s time to bust some myths. Here are the three in most desperate need for busting. 1. Behavioral problems are due to bad parents who make excuses. I suppose this is a vestige of the way…