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Applied Behavior Analysis
What is ABA?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a science-based approach to understanding and improving behavior. It focuses on how behavior works, why it happens, and how it can be changed in meaningful, lasting ways.
At our clinic, we use ABA to teach everyday skills, promote independence, and reduce behaviors that may interfere with learning or daily life. Each treatment plan is personalized to meet the unique needs of the child and is built around positive reinforcement, data-driven decision-making, and close collaboration with families. We prioritize parent training to help caregivers feel confident and ensure that progress continues at home and beyond. We also take therapy into the community, working with clients in real-world settings like stores, parks, and restaurants to help them build the skills they need to navigate everyday life with confidence.
Types of ABA services offered: comprehensive ABA and focused ABA
Co-occurring conditions addressed: communication delays, food aversions, toilet training
Age groups served: 1 year to 21 years
Settings: clinic, community, occasional home
Modalities: in-person direct services
Increasing Functional Skills
We will target increasing functional skills such as adaptive functioning (daily living) skills, communication, social skills and overall independence to ensure future success across all environments, including school, home, community and other settings.
Decreasing Maladaptive Behaviors
We will target decreasing maladaptive behaviors that interfere with learning, day to day living and safety, focusing on the behaviors that pose the most dangerous risks to the client and their family first.
Parent/Caregiver Training
Caregiver training will aid caregivers in supporting growth in their child by providing them the tools, confidence and understanding of their child's behavior.
Community Skills
We plan to attend outings to restaurants and different stores to work on community skills such as waiting within arm's reach of a caregiver, social niceties, and exchanging money depending on the needs of the client. This is important to generalize skills learned in the clinic to other settings!
Group
We plan to offer a group that offers your traditional group setting you would see in a classroom. Here, we can target classroom readiness skills such as responding to questions, raising a hand, and sitting with peers.
Desensitization
For those that find it difficult to visit the salon, dentist, or doctor's office, we can emulate the environment and systematically desensitize the client to the environment by moving at a client-led pace!
Guiding Principles
Our Mission
At Anderson Therapy Group, we believe that every child can thrive when supported by a team that understands their unique needs. As a family-owned business founded by a former teacher and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, we are dedicated to helping our clients by the vision statement: adapt, thrive and grow. Our philosophy is rooted in three guiding principles: empower families, integrate expertise, and lead with compassion.
Core Values
At ATG, there are core values that drive the way the company operates. These core values are considered daily when working with our clients and their families.
Adapt
The standard definition for adapt is ‘modify’. Looking further into the word and what it means for a company, specifically an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) company, adapt means observable actions or measurable changes that indicate an adjustment to a situation. At ATG, adaptation is imperative for the success of our client. As we work with each unique individual and their caregivers, we ensure that we adapt to the families customs, preferences, and create goals that are most important to the clients and their families.
Thrive
ATG promotes opportunities to thrive for staff, clients and families. Staff thrive when they are supported, which we absolutely strive to do in all facets of the job including initial training, comprehension of ABA principles and continued training opportunities. Clients thrive when therapy is completed using the principles of ABA and their therapists are properly trained. Families thrive when the team they work with is knowledgeable, thorough and thoughtful about the work they complete including ongoing parent training to ensure generalization.
Grow
Using the principles of ABA, our goal is to increase behaviors that are functional and aid in improving the quality of life of our clients. We will also intervene to decrease behaviors that are impeding with the potential success of our clients and their families. Staff, clients and families alike will grow throughout their time at ATG. Using the previously mentioned core values and strong leadership, ATG will make meaningful change in lives using compassion, care and behavior analytic principles.