Can you imagine how it would feel to not have a single friend and not be able to communicate with anyone? There are many children that are faced with this problem do to pervasive development disorders (PDD). These children lack social skills tremendously. Some of them will only talk about one certain topic, some can’t keep a conversation, some of have trouble keeping eye contact, and more. Recently, a new classroom has been developed in Yonkers, New York. It is an Applied Behavior Analysis classroom that consists of a teacher, two aides, a psychologist, a social worker, a movement therapist, and a speech and language pathologist. Their job is to help the eight boys (PDD is more common for boys) that ar

e enrolled in the class to overcome their PDD and develop better social skills. These boys are all around the age of twelve. General school subjects are taught in this classroom but the main focus is on social issues. The students work on a point system. For this point system to work, each student has to make their own “point book” that consists of their goals. Then, each time they are able to achieve that goal for each day they mark down a point. At the end of the day, they are rewarded by the amount of points that they received. This point system also allows the instructors to recognize the success that the students are having over a period of time. If they start out receiving a small amount of points and end up with a lot as time progresses, then the instructors know that they are progressing. The instructors can also tell whether or not

Some topics in this essay:
Behavior Analysis, Development Disorders”, , social skills, focus social, pervasive development, pdd children,