Chapter 8 - Inborn and Acquired Brain and Physical Disabilities
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In this chapter, we describe the application of interventions, based on the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), to individuals with a variety of intellectual and physical disabilities. ABA has an extensive and successful record in terms of developing evidence-based effective interventions for individuals with a variety of disabilities. In fact, the application of ABA with these populations is so diverse it would warrant several volumes to describe it in adequate detail. Within the confines of this chapter we have elected to give just a flavor of the wide variety of applied issues addressed with this broad population. The chapter is divided into four sections to reflect four broad categories of disabilityinborn brain disorders, acquired brain disabilities, inborn physical disabilities, and, finally, acquired physical disabilities. Each of the four sections begins with a definition of the disability and then describes three or four empirically evaluated applied behavioral interventions.
