Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI)

Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) involves the intense application of a great deal of structure and reinforcements with the help of precise learning techniques.

Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), which is the most frequently used, is both an approach, a program and a technique derived from scientific methodology, with data and verifications, validations and modifications according to the results. It is used primarily with children under the age of six, and may be used in response to the particular needs of certain older children.

ABA targets the teaching of skills deemed priorities in the individual's personalized intervention plan. From an applied behavioural analysis standpoint, the difficulties related to autism stem primarily from impeded learning and may be overcome through training.

Teaching strategies necessarily include the use of positive reinforcement and consequences, as well as recording the stimulation's progress in order to reorient the treatment. Interventions that encourage the child to take initiatives with natural consequences and reinforcers have better results; however, various teaching techniques may be used, such as teaching through distinct efforts, error reduction and fortuitous learning.