Volume 38, Issue 3, January 2023, Pages 656–681
Kawtar Charaf-Eddine1, Othmane Boutchich2, Redouane Oumoulylte3, Ouafae Moumen4, Alexandra Lecestre5, and Ghizlane Benjelloun6
1 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hassan 2 University of Casablanca, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Center of Doctoral Studies in Health Sciences, Casablanca, Morocco
2 Consultation Service, regional hospital center, Beni Mellal, Morocco
3 Rehabilitation department, regional hospital center, Errachidia, Morocco
4 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Pedopsychiatry Department, University Hospital Center Ibno Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
5 Psychology-Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Lille3 Charles de Gaulle University Villeneuve d’Ascq 59-north, France
6 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Pedopsychiatry Department, University Hospital Center Ibno Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
During my studies as well as my work with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD, I have heard a lot about ABA, the behavioral approach several times, especially during my basic psychomotor training. As a result, this thesis work is in line with the psychomotor management of children with ASD through the ABA approach, using ABA procedures. ABA, Applied Behavior Analysis, has for objective: to improve the conditions of life of the person. To achieve this objective, three axes are considered: Increase adapted behaviors, decrease maladaptive behaviors, learn new adapted behaviors. This approach has proven its effectiveness in ASD, geriatrics, sports, business and education... In psychomotricity, it is still very little used, despite the fact that psychomotricity is a profession that uses several tools and mediations. This work presents two cases in which ABA procedures were used to maintain psychomotor skills. The combination of psychomotricity and the ABA approach, through the use of its principles (reinforcement, punishment, extinction, error-free teaching,...) contributed to an improvement of the target behaviors, which shows the interest of using the ABA approach in psychomotor care.
Author Keywords: ABA, behavior, psychomotor management, reinforcement, Autism Spectrum Disorder, psychomotrician, applied behavioral analysis science, rehabilitation.
Kawtar Charaf-Eddine1, Othmane Boutchich2, Redouane Oumoulylte3, Ouafae Moumen4, Alexandra Lecestre5, and Ghizlane Benjelloun6
1 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hassan 2 University of Casablanca, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Center of Doctoral Studies in Health Sciences, Casablanca, Morocco
2 Consultation Service, regional hospital center, Beni Mellal, Morocco
3 Rehabilitation department, regional hospital center, Errachidia, Morocco
4 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Pedopsychiatry Department, University Hospital Center Ibno Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
5 Psychology-Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Lille3 Charles de Gaulle University Villeneuve d’Ascq 59-north, France
6 Department: Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Pedopsychiatry Department, University Hospital Center Ibno Rochd, Casablanca, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
During my studies as well as my work with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD, I have heard a lot about ABA, the behavioral approach several times, especially during my basic psychomotor training. As a result, this thesis work is in line with the psychomotor management of children with ASD through the ABA approach, using ABA procedures. ABA, Applied Behavior Analysis, has for objective: to improve the conditions of life of the person. To achieve this objective, three axes are considered: Increase adapted behaviors, decrease maladaptive behaviors, learn new adapted behaviors. This approach has proven its effectiveness in ASD, geriatrics, sports, business and education... In psychomotricity, it is still very little used, despite the fact that psychomotricity is a profession that uses several tools and mediations. This work presents two cases in which ABA procedures were used to maintain psychomotor skills. The combination of psychomotricity and the ABA approach, through the use of its principles (reinforcement, punishment, extinction, error-free teaching,...) contributed to an improvement of the target behaviors, which shows the interest of using the ABA approach in psychomotor care.
Author Keywords: ABA, behavior, psychomotor management, reinforcement, Autism Spectrum Disorder, psychomotrician, applied behavioral analysis science, rehabilitation.
How to Cite this Article
Kawtar Charaf-Eddine, Othmane Boutchich, Redouane Oumoulylte, Ouafae Moumen, Alexandra Lecestre, and Ghizlane Benjelloun, “Combination of psychomotricity and behavioral approaches especially Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 656–681, January 2023.