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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.
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 environements, 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!