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.

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 skillset development. Many of those comorbidities are outside of 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.

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.

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.

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 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.