Dan and Autism

Day 1

Names of people and organizations will be changed due to HIPAA laws. My job will be referred to as The Organization.

As a requirement for my credited internship at The Organization, I have to keep a daily journal. I decided to make a blog for this since it's more fun to write in than a Microsoft Word file, and maybe people would be interested in working with autism and this could be helpful.

Today was the first day of training. Traffic sucked and I got there about 20 minutes late at 9:20, but I wasn't the last one there.
We went over the origins of the organization, then did a quick lesson on what autism was.
We went over several different important steps and techniques in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and how to appy it to the students and residents of The Organization.
We were taught the ten-step "tests" we would give to residents in order to reduce stigmatizing behavior and also for teaching basic skills.
Tomorrow will be more interesting, because we're learning take downs incase the autistic guys get out of control.
I'm the only guy in the training, so I'm basically going to be beating up a bunch of girls. Or a bunch of girls are going to be beating up me.

posted by Daniel @ 6:25 PM