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Faith's Amazing Breakthrough - Before & After Video Progress From 1 Month of ABA this Summer - Proven 40x - 200x Faster Progress Than School



Proof From The School's Weekly-Charted IEP Data + Full Before & After Benchmarking Videos:

2019-2020, ~8 IEP goals mastered in 10 months with ABA support after school that year (calculated based on subsequent IEP goal replenishment)
2020-2021, only 1-2 IEP goals mastered in 10 months without ABA
2021-2022 First Semester like 0 IEP goals mastered in 5 months and *regressing* on 11 of 17 IEP goals without ABA

Click Here to See the Regressing Weekly School Reports Without ABA -- FAITH WAS REGRESSING AT SCHOOL in the semester before ABA was resumed!
2021-2022 Second Semester 2-3 IEP goals mastered in 5 months with ABA support on goals ABA also worked on (verbs, nouns & sight words)

2022 Summer, 4 - 20 IEP goals mastered from 1 summer month of pure ABA -- *from her most-stagnant goals* -- Proving a 40x - 200x Faster Progress Rate from 1-on-1 ABA:

Faith Mastered Pre-Writing Circles (given up on at school after 2 years) Before | During | After | Regressing without ABA IEP chart from school
Faith Mastered 1:1 Counting to 10 (given up on at school after 2 years)
- Regressing without ABA IEP chart from school
Faith Mastered Zig Zag cutting (back for a second year in IEP) During | Regressing without ABA IEP chart from school
Faith Mastered Tracing Her Name (back for a second year in IEP)
Before | After | Regressing without ABA IEP chart from school
Faith Mastered Writing Her Name without Tracing (usually its own IEP goal) -
After
Faith Mastered Writing 16 New Letters (and Faith can now write sentences after school apparently gave up on her writing, as she progressed as fast as non-autistic kids according to her therapist who also teaches first grade!)
Before | During | After
Plus, Faith now knows and answers what her name is, clearly showing ABA can also advance her social and communication skills!

Initial Benchmarking Video | Initial Benchmarking Letter Writing Video | Final Benchmarking Full Video

Historic IEP data showing the above - 2019-2020 IEP Goals | 2020-2021 IEP Goals | 2021-2022 IEP Goals | 2021-2022 Q3 Report Card - Shows Faith Only Progressed Overall with ABA Resumed for Q3! | 2022 IEP Goals

- Studies (like this one across 42 children) show autistic children do drastically better with full ABA therapy than with special education alone with about an 81% mainstreaming rate with ABA vs. a 5% mainstreaming rate without ABA

- Autistic children need legislation (like what recently passed in Louisiana unanimously) requiring public schools to allow insurance-covered therapists in school to support and drastically advance autistic learning.

- The estimated lifetime cost of caring for an untreated individual with autism is over $3.2 million. Adult services make up 90 percent of lifetime costs, and are three times more expensive than early intervention treatment. If children receive early intervention, cost of lifelong care could be reduced by two-thirds.

- ABA therapy, the only autism therapy covered by the vast majority of insurances, like cures half or more of children with autism, but kids often need 30-40 hours of therapy per week, and there is a long waiting list for therapists with availability -- thus the importance of schools allowing that assistance during the day time, especially for children of working parents.

- Life expectancy for autistic people who don't get treatment is only about 38 years.

- 1 in 64 children in Georgia has autism.

- Though the GA legislature voted near-unanimously twice for children to have access to ABA therapy, there is a small community of parents trying to keep their children from the therapy, and even divorcing to try to keep their children from it.

- This is extra disturbing as GA Medicaid even states that all home environments need to be supportive of the therapy for it to work, and because ABA therapy treatment guidelines require deferring to the parent.

- Therefore, it is also strongly recommended that laws also be updated such that decision making powers and child custody for autistic children shall be vested in the fit parent who has not been against the child receiving ABA therapy.

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Please reach out any time to Faith's Dad, Ben Paul Fremer at 404-936-0550 or [email protected]. He is also generally available to meet on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings at First Baptist Church of Woodstock, where he, Faith and the other children regularly attend.

References

Louisiana's similar law passed unanimously in 2018 - https://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/2019/revised-statutes/title-17/rs-173/ and the unanimous votes - https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=18RS&b=HB766&sbi=y

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#History - "The outcome of this study indicated 47% of the experimental group (9/19) went on to lose their autism diagnosis and were described as indistinguishable from their typical adolescent peers. This included passing education without assistance and making and maintaining friends. These gains were maintained as reported in the 1993 study, "Long-term outcome for children with autism who received early intensive behavioral treatment". Lovaas' work went on to be recognized by the US Surgeon General in 1999, and his research were replicated in university and private settings."

- https://medicaid.georgia.gov/document/publication/asd-policy-manual/download - "ABS needs to be consistently applied in all environments to be successful."

- Facts about Autism and its costs from regional autism research authority, The Marcus Center- https://www.marcus.org/~/media/marcus/documents/parent-resources/gas-autism-insurance-law.pdf

- Early Death from Autism - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caring-autism/201810/early-death-in-those-autism-spectrum-disorder

- "How has ABA helped children?

Applied Behavior Analysis is a big time commitment, but more than 20 scientific studies have demonstrated its results.

The U.S. Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association consider ABA an "evidence-based best-practice treatment"—meaning the evidence is in: ABA works hard for your child..we take that pretty seriously!

In a 2006 study, 21 children with autism spectrum disorder received 35-40 hours a week of ABA treatment for three years. Another 21 children took public school and special education classes, but did not receive ABA treatment.

Group receiving ABA therapy
Significantly higher IQ/adaptive behavior scores
17/21 children included in regular education after 3 years

Group not receiving ABA therapy
Stagnant IQ/adaptive behavior scores
1/21 children included in regular education after 3 years
There are plenty of other studies demonstrating similar amazing results, like this one from 2014."
https://www.hopebridge.com/autism-services/applied-behavior-analysis/

- The GA legislature voted in 2018 almost unanimously ( https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/50232 ) to extend insurance coverage of ABA to age 21. The GA legislature also voted near-unanimously in 2015 for autistic kids to be able to get ABA therapy ( https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/43998 ). Expanding ABA therapy access for autistic children is very popular and broadly supported! Please help!