Ladder Of Success ABA

Individualized Care in a Fun Collaborative Environment

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Quality, Compassionate Care.

We truly care about our clients and families, and they are at the forefront of everything we do. Each child and family that comes to us is given the highest quality of care.

Our Mission

Enabling children to reach their full potential through PERSONALIZED, COLLABORATIVE ABA therapy in a FUN, INTERACTIVE environment, one empowering step at a time.

Our Proven Path Toward Success

We understand the unique needs of each child and strive to provide aFUN, collaborative, interactive and effective treatment. Our initiatives are tailored to support and enhance the developmental journey of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other related conditions. We diligently follow various industry leading initiatives to achieve optimal clinical outcomes for each of our kids.

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Experience Clinical Leadership & Quality Management

Preference & Individualized Approach

Fun & Engaging Sessions

Social Skills Groups

Parent Training

Collaborative Multidisciplinary Approach

Supportive Community

Compassionate Personalized Intake & Onboarding Support

Ensuring Generalization

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Our Services

Social Skills Groups

ABA Therapy

Preschool Prep Group

Parent Training

Parent Support Group

Feeding Therapy

Commited To Quality Care

“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

“What can I do today to make tomorrow’s path up the ladder of success easier."

Rafi Wassner

“The willingness to even attempt the climb up the ladder of success is a win itself.”

AJ Stern

"No one can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung."

James Cash Penney

“Ladder of success has a lot of tiny steps, big leaps only result in downfalls!”

Prema Goklani

“Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience.”

Vikrmn

Our Location

Aurora Colorado

2953 S Peoria Street

Suite 101

Aurora CO 80014

P: 720.675.9203

F: 323.430.9178

Experienced Clinical Leadership & Quality Management

Each of our clinical leaders has well over 10 years of experience with all ages and settings including in-center, in-home, and in-school. We are committed to ethical and high-quality practices, as outlined in our comprehensive quality policy. To ensure the success and growth of each child, we diligently track their progress on a continuous basis. Further, we want to minimize any regressions that might occur from a change in the child’s environment at home, school or social settings.

Our flexible and adaptive approach allows us to modify a treatment plan when necessary to ensure optimal quality outcomes. Collaborating with parents and a child’s support team is vital. We routinely collect and analyze feedback from clients and families to refine and improve our services to ensure high satisfaction and address any concerns promptly. We measure quality by utilizing key performance indicators (KPI), skills acquisition rate, satisfaction surveys, net promoter scores, and assessments.

Therapy plans and outcomes are regularly assessed and adjusted to ensure progress and effectiveness. We use data-driven methods to track and measure skill acquisition including progress notes, assessment results, and goal completion rates, ensuring that each child’s developmental milestones are met and exceeded. We strive for high client and team member satisfaction by achieving quality outcomes through continuous improvement and measurable progress.

Preference & Individualized Approach

Therapy plans are tailored to each child's unique strengths and needs, ensuring individualized and effective care. We believe in a child-centered approach that puts the unique needs and preferences of your child at the forefront. Our individualized therapy plans are designed to be fun and interactive, ensuring that each session is engaging and effective. We understand that ABA therapy should be warm and supportive, not cold and impersonal. This initiative allows ABA therapists to be more adaptive and flexible to determine the hierarchy of a child’s preferred items including toys, foods, social interactions, people, and locations. Highly preferred items are potential positive reinforcers that can be used as motivators during therapy sessions leading to a more enjoyable, individualized, engaged and productive experience. If a child is given the possibility to choose a preferred and effective reinforcer, a target behavior is more likely to occur. Assessments may need to be done more often if a child’s preferences change frequently or when a child’s behavior indicates that a current reinforcer is no longer preferred. This systematic, data-based approach to evaluating a child’s potential interests can significantly improve the learning of new skills.

Fun & Engaging Sessions

Autism services for kids should be fun for several important reasons:

Increased Engagement: Fun and enjoyable activities capture children’s attention and keep them engaged, making it easier for them to participate actively in therapy sessions.

Positive Reinforcement: When children associate learning with fun, it encourages positive behavior and makes them more inclined to repeat those behaviors.

Reduced Anxiety: Many children with autism experience anxiety when confronted with challenges. Fun activities can help reduce this anxiety by creating a more relaxed and comfortable environment.

Enhanced Social Skills: Fun group activities provide opportunities for children to interact with peers, practice social skills in a natural setting, and build friendships.

Improved Motivation: Children are more motivated to learn and try new things when they are having fun, leading to better progress and outcomes.

Creativity and Flexibility: Fun activities often involve play and creativity, which can help children develop cognitive flexibility and problem-solving skills.

Stress Relief: Both children and their parents benefit from the joy and laughter that come with fun activities, making therapy a more pleasant experience for everyone involved.

Making autism services fun helps create a supportive and effective learning environment tailored to the unique needs of each child.

Social Skills Groups

Our treatment initiatives allows children to increase and strengthen peer relationships through participating in group activities that enhance and improve the quality of their interpersonal skills and increase a positive sense of self. All groups are facilitated by experienced Behavior Analysts and are kept small to ensure that the individual needs of our students are being met. We target specific social skills into each purposeful activity we plan. Cooperative games and activities provide a fun interactive way to promote flexibility, kindness, problem solving, communication and teamwork. We help kids feel the value in playing with others over playing against others. Exchanging and communicating ideas allows kids to benefit from their friends’ strengths and talents. Their ability to cooperate, adapt and genuinely enjoy their peers is going to propel them to succeed in all aspects of life. Research has shown that developing early meaningful and positive peer relationships set the stage for later social interactions and significantly affect happiness and self-esteem.

Parent Training

We place parents at the center of our team approach, actively involving them in every step of a child's developmental journey. From creating custom therapy plans to ensuring a child's therapy is enjoyable, we are dedicated to helping every child thrive.

We provide continuous support and clear communication, ensuring parents feel confident and supported throughout every child's therapy journey. We are here to empower worried and nervous parents, ensuring every child can reach their full potential in a nurturing and compassionate environment. Parents undergo training to help them play a more integral role in their children’s progress. The goal is to enable the parent to use treatment principles and ABA techniques to reinforce and continue the work done during the therapy sessions.

Increased involvement helps parents manage problematic behaviors more effectively and ensuring acquired skills are implementable in various settings. It helps secure consistency over various environments, allows parents to help their children generalize skills in different contexts, and teaches the parents to create an environment supportive of the therapy at home. ABA parent training is goal-oriented, and parents are given specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound goals to work on with their children. These goals can help children acquire living skills and habits, such as brushing their teeth, or help them grow interest in the world around them by providing opportunities for tactile stimulus. While parents’ involvement in their children’s programs is crucial for children’s development, especially when the kids are young, there are studies that show that taking a more prominent role in their children’s treatment has a positive impact on the parents, too.

Collaborative Multidisciplinary Approach

In this model, the whole needs of the child are considered and addressed including diagnosis and ABA evaluations, ABA therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language pathology, physical therapy, feeding and swallowing therapy, and family guidance. For example, a child who has restricted eating habits may appear to be having severe problem behavior when offered new foods. When addressed from a behavior analytic perspective, only the behavior is addressed. In this model, if there is another underlying issue, treatment can force the child into a high stress and traumatic situation. When Speech/Language Pathology and Occupational Therapy are incorporated, sensory components and oral motor needs will also be evaluated. A more comprehensive, therapeutic and well-rounded treatment plan will be established that will result in more positive gains for the client.

74% of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are likely to have other comorbidities that impact learning, therapeutic treatment and functional skill set development. Many of those comorbidities are outside the scope of the behavior analyst and require coordination of care across disciplines to consider all factors. Another example would be a child with hypotonia, or low muscle tone. Low muscle tone can lead to difficulty sitting still and concentrating, as substantial effort is utilized just on physical management, let alone on skill acquisition. A physical therapist can target this deficit, while also working with the ABA team to find strategies to promote skill acquisition in other areas. By having ABA, Speech/Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy under one roof, we reduce the burden on the caregiver to coordinate care and increase the opportunities for effective and informed collaboration.

Supportive Community

In this initiative, we strive to go far beyond parent training by offering parenting groups, sibling support groups and family resources. Parenting groups allows families to connect with one another. Sibling support groups help siblings feel included and cared for. Family resources help families gain valuable tools and knowledge.

Our clinical team also offers frequent complimentary trainings and workshops for the greater community. Our goal is to empower the entire family during this journey up the ladder of success.

Compassionate, Personalized Intake & Onboarding Support

Navigating the complexities of securing funding and completing the intake process can be overwhelming for many families. Assessments, intake forms, medical forms or insurance forms can be confusing. We are here to support families every step of the way. Our compassionate and seasoned team simplifies these processes, asking only the essential questions needed to provide the best care for every child. Families are guided through the intake process with empathy and support, ensuring they feel understood and cared for. We collaborate with families from the very beginning to ensure that throughout the entire relationship we work as a team to achieve positive and sustainable outcomes.

**When covered by a funder, we will assist in arranging non-emergency medical transportation.**

Ensuring Generalization

The ability to generalize newly learned skills is essential for the long-term success and positive outcomes of ABA therapy. It enables kids to perform well in different settings, develop self-confidence, independence, and improve the retention of skills. We focus on teaching children to apply newly acquired skills in a variety of situations and circumstances outside of a clinical setting and with people other than the therapist. Children are not always able to independently transfer learned skills to other settings. For example, a child may have learned how to read in school, but is unable to successfully perform the same activity at home. If a behavior only occurs in one specific situation, there has been a failure to generalize.

As generalization is embedded in our treatment plans, we teach a target skill and behavior across a variety of settings, objects, behaviors, and people. We ensure that children practice these skills spontaneously throughout the day as part of their daily routine and in natural environments such as the home, classroom, grocery store, or playground. When a child can generalize their skills, they are less reliant on others for help that leads to a greater sense of independence, self-confidence and self-esteem. We collaborate with other therapists, teachers, peers, and family members to help the child practice and master the new skill in a variety of conditions.