Laurie Russell
Ajax, ON (CAN)
Role(s):
Learning for Tomorrow
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Location:
Ajax
Industry:
Education
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
INVALID
Description:
Our center is a learning center for children with developmental disorders; we will provide Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) to children who are in need of these services. ABA is an intervention that has been successfully used for the treatment of children with developmental disorders, particularly in its more intensive form of IBI. A growing number of research studies indicate that when ABA is delivered intensively by trained therapists early in the development of a child with autism, there are significant gains in the cognitive, language, and social adjustment of those children treated. Most studies indicate that ABA/IBI treatment can have positive effects on the behaviour of children with Autism; however, these findi