The Therapy That Looks Like Play: How Modern ABA Builds Skills Through Connection, Not Compliance

Picture a child at a table, physically prompted through a shape sorter for the tenth time while the provider “pushes through” the protest. Now picture that same child on the floor, laughing, handing you the shapes because they want to — learning the same skill, except this time it sticks. That’s modern ABA. This two-hour, hands-on workshop shows you how to build sessions around motivation, connection, and the child’s lead instead of drill and compliance — and why that shift is what makes skills actually generalize.