More speech or continue ABA (5 days)? Level 3 / Twin 4 year olds
Our 4-year-old twins (boy and girl) were both diagnosed with level 3 autism at 2 years old. Since then, they’ve been doing full-day (8hrs) ABA 5 days a week at their daycare which allow there RBTs do to therapy full day alongside their classmates during circle time, meals, outside play, etc. They also receive 2 sessions a week of speech therapy.
Our son vocal stims, repeats some words, and labels things he likes, but he isn’t conversational yet and usually responds with one word. Our daughter is more delayed and mostly makes sounds without repeating words.
At their speech evaluations, our son tested around a 3-year-old communication level and our daughter around a 2-year-old level.
For parents with similar experiences, did increasing speech therapy help more, or did ABA eventually lead to more language and communication?