Techincal Skill For ABA

I realised that there are still so many skills for me to learn after this morning staff training on ABA. We had a kid today for training. He is able to match word to picture and match picture to word ie he was able to match the word 'ball' to the picture 'ball. However, the interesting thing is that he was not able to match word to object or object to the word. Isnt this interesting? Is there such a different between 2D and 3D (real objects). i don't think that there will be any difference for a regular person but definitely for an ASD kid, especially this kid.

So we have to think of a way to teach him to match picture to object and object to picture first. In fact, the real problem that he couldnt match them was because he was not paying much attention when there were objects and picture but once there was
words, he was able to do so. To start with, we had to intersperse the words and the picture and gradually built up his momentum to make him pay attention and after that. Bang!! He was able to do it.

I learnt so much things from this staff training. I learned that task analysis is really important. One has to find out what the real reason is in order to tackle the problem. We cant just help the kid blindly without knowing the situation and problem. Also, there are so many skills in ABA that i need to learn to be really good. I still have a long way to go but i know that i'm getting better as days go by. Yeah!!