What is ABA?

What is Applied Behaviour Analysis?

ABA stands for Applied Behaviour Analysis. Applied behaviour analysis is a scientific approach to understanding behaviour. ABA refers to a set of principles that focus on how behaviours change or are affected by the environment*, as well as how learning takes place. The term behaviour refers to the skills and actions needed to talk, play, and live.

Behaviour therapists use applied behaviour analysis to teach individuals with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disabilities to learn new skills to to change behaviours that create negative outcomes into desired behaviours that create more positive outcomes for them and their community.

*Environments can be a place or context like at home with family or school with classmates, the grocery store with their staff and other customers, the park with friends even online.