My Journey to Becoming a BCBA: and how ABA can change lives!

by LeAsia Leach-Thompson

When LeAsia Leach-Thompson says that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) changed her life and that it can change yours too, she means it! She has the personal experience and professional qualification to back up her claim. ABA, Leach-Thompson explains, is “a science that focuses on transforming dysfunctional behavior into more functional and positive behavior through a systematic approach.” She has written this book to share the hard-won success and its fruits, which she attributes to the life-changing effect of ABA. For her, ABA has been both a personal and professional journey of life-reckoning, reorientation, and rectification. Her book is at once a personal account of the transformative use and effects of ABA and a professional ABCs about the basics of this science and its applications. ABA’s knowledge base and techniques (called “interventions”), says Leach-Thompson, “are also always relevant to us in real life, and we are constantly learning through these interventions whether we know it or not. The difference in understanding the various concepts vs. not being as privy is that it allows us to be more intentional when moving through our journey and helps us gain understanding of how our actions are directly related to our environment and future events.” Leach-Thompson offers a personal challenge of hope and possibility, inviting her readers to use ABA to make an honest reassessment of their lives. To her readers, she says: “We all have a purpose. But we can let it idle, or we can learn the tools and knowledge to activate our destiny! What do you think? Are you going to activate?”

126 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2023