ABA – English noun declension

Noun: ABA

Singular

ABA

It is a direct echo of a notorious claim made by the psychologist credited with inventing applied behavior analysis (ABA), Ole Ivar Lovaas: in a 1987 article, he wrote that nearly half the children treated with his version of ABA became, according to their teachers, “indistinguishable from their normal friends.” [2023, Naomi Klein, “Autism and the Anti-Vax Prequel”, in Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:]
The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy. [2024 December 14, Annie Waldman, “UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism”, in CNN:]
Rudnicki and colleagues found ABA to increase with ripening of strawberry fruits (16) and of pears (17) and during the development of apple fruits (18). [1972, Davis LA, Addicott FT, “Abscisic Acid: Correlations with Abscission and with Development in the Cotton Fruit”, in Plant Physiology (journal), volume 49, number 4, page 644:]

English noun forms of ABA