c children are the way they are; they don't understand why their responses to everyday things can be so very strange. The particular excesses and deficits vary so greatly from one child to another that an explanation or strategy that seems to work for one child may not be a total disaster for another.
             There are a few things that are actually true about autism. This disorder is uncommon but not rare. The "accepted" incidence is around one per thousand, but many parents in the USA reported a "headcount" in their schools that gives an incidence closer to one in every two or three hundred. (www.autismtoday.com) This disorder is genetically linked in some degree. It is also impairment in learning by social imitation. Spoken language, body language, the rules of playing and friendship, are all typically learned at an early age by a deserving and imitating other behaviors.
             There are many different types of disorders in autism. For the purpose of this study "ABA" was chosen.
             Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a science, which seeks to use empirically validated behavior change procedures for assisting individuals in developing skills with social value. "Applied," means practice and "Behavior Analysis" may be read as "learning therapy" that, understands what leads to new skills. The procedures used in intensive behavioral intervention programs for children with autism are primarily from research generated by practitioners of ABA.
             Typically developing children learn without intervention, the environment that the child is born into provides the right conditions to learn language, play, and social skills.
             Children with autism learn much, much less from the environment. They are often capable of learning, but it takes a very structured environment, one where conditions are optimized for acquiring the same skills that typical children learn "naturally." ABA&...