What is ABA?

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a type of therapy that is scientifically driven to promote change in the lives of individuals. 

ABA helps us understand how behavior works, how the environment affects our behaviors and how we learn to engage in specific types of behavior.

ABA can help with:

• language and communication delays
• improving attention
• social skills
• self-help skills (dressing, cooking, bathing, toileting, etc.,)
• play and leisure
• decreasing maladaptive behaviors

The therapeutic techniques used to help patients are individualized to their needs.  This means that no patient’s therapy program will be exactly alike.  Our type of therapy can be applied in any setting where there is a clinical need.  This can include but is not limited to; the home setting, the school setting, the grocery store setting, any other areas in the community.  Skills can be taught 1:1 (one to one) where the child is taught individually by their therapist.  Clients can also be taught in a group setting when there is a need for the child to improve in their social skills.

ABA uses positive reinforcement to motivate behavioral change.

Every ABA program will be designed and supervised by a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA).  The BCBA will do on-going program supervision and make individualized changes as needed for the benefit of the client. Only scientifically validated clinical techniques will be used to help all clients. 

ABA uses a collaborative approach to help all clients reach their full potential.  A collaboration between other professionals, and the client’s family will be done.  Families will be taught the therapeutic techniques to be implemented outside of session to keep clinical interventions consistent during therapy hours and outside of therapy hours. 

Each client’s progress will be monitored through the collection of on-going data.  This data will be the evidence to showcase the clinical improvement of each client.  Once the client shows consistent improvement, the BCBA and family can discuss the potential to begin the process of fading clinical services.