Services
Home-Based ABA Therapy
In-home ABA therapy provides the convenience of a therapist coming directly to the family's residence to deliver applied behavior analysis services. This allows sessions to occur in a familiar, comfortable setting using the child's own toys and materials, it can help bridge the gap between formal sessions and home life. Targeted skills can be worked on and naturally practiced through the child's daily routines and environment.
This seamless integration between therapy and home fosters greater generalization of skills and consistency in ABA techniques used across settings. While clinic-based ABA certainly has advantages, in-home sessions facilitate accessibility, customization, and continuity between formal ABA goals and the child's real-world home life.
Clinic-Based ABA Therapy
Clinic-based ABA therapy involves sessions being conducted at a designated ABA center or clinic location. Some benefits of clinic ABA include access to a wider variety of structured teaching materials and environments, opportunities for group learning, and the ability to employ more intensive behavioral procedures if needed. The clinic setting minimizes distractions and provides a consistent space tailored for therapy.
While in-home ABA offers perks as well, clinics provide specialized ABA spaces, multidisciplinary collaboration, consistent oversight, and caregiver education. Clinics remain an ideal setting for intensive or emerging ABA programs. However, coordination between clinic therapists and families is still crucial to generalize skills into the home.
Caregiver Skills Training
Caregiver skills training involves actively teaching parents, grandparents, and family members strategies to reinforce the child's ABA therapy goals at home. This includes observing sessions to learn techniques firsthand, receiving coaching from therapists on proper implementation, collecting data, using rewards and visual schedules, generalizing skills into home routines, fostering independence, utilizing positive discipline, collaborating on school goals, and checking in regularly with the ABA team.
The priority is consistency across environments so children can practice target skills continuously. Caregiver training empowers families to become more capable, fully involved members of the therapeutic team. Ongoing education and support enables families to carry over ABA principles into all aspects of the child's daily life, and is an indispensable part of any ABA treatment.
School Support Services
ABA school support services involve integrating ABA strategies within academic settings to help students succeed. This can include having ABA therapists provide 1:1 classroom support, training school staff on techniques, assisting with IEPs, delivering ABA instruction, conducting assessments to inform behavior plans, establishing classroom visual supports, pulling students out for focused small groups, collaborating with support staff, and generalizing skills across environments.
The goal is to seamlessly carry over ABA principles across learning spaces, allowing students to continuously practice target skills. Effective collaboration enables ABA strategies to be woven through school, home, and community for maximum skill development. Comprehensive ABA support allows students to thrive academically, socially, and behaviorally.