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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.**

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.