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Happy Pride Month from LBS Connections. 🌈 At LBS Connections, we believe every person deserves to be respected, understood, and supported as their authentic self. Pride Month is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ identities, history, resilience, and community. It is also an opportunity to learn about the ways different aspects of identity can intersect. One area receiving increasing attention from researchers is the overlap between neurodiversity and LGBTQIA+ identity. Research consi

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has been around for decades, and like many long-standing approaches in human services, its history is complicated. For some families, ABA has been a source of support, structure, and access to skills that improved daily life. For many autistic individuals, it’s also been a source of harm—especially in earlier models that were heavily focused on compliance, repetition, and reducing behaviors without always considering the person’s experience. Bo

A Family-Friendly Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis If you are new to the autism world, you have probably heard the term “ABA” come up often—but may still be wondering what it actually means. ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis. At its core, ABA is a science about how behavior works. It looks at how the environment, relationships, communication, and experiences influence behavior and skill development. The goal of ABA is not simply to “change behavior.” Modern, e