All of our staff are Registered Behavior Technicians who are trained to work under a behavior therapist on behavior management.
- Analyzing behaviors at home, school and in therapy
- Writing behavior plans
- Training all caregivers involved
- Managing anger/anxiety behaviors using charts, videos, role modelling
- Anger management and anxiety/dealing with emotions as it relates to behaviors
- Using videos, role modelling and visual charts/ personal behavior booklets.
Does your child have a reliable way to communicate?
Does your child need help regulating emotions or understanding interpersonal boundaries?
Do you know how to manage unwanted behaviors at school and home?
Over the last few decades, Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA, has grown into a broad group of approaches and techniques designed to help children with autism.
Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) is a type of therapy that can improve social, communication, and learning skills through reinforcement strategies.
ABA therapy may decrease behavior with a negative impact on social interactions. It could also address negative behavior in family and educational settings and foster better focusing abilities.
ABA principles and strategies target negative behaviors, and the goal is to modify such behaviors to be more functional and appropriate, which can result in improved daily living.
The goal of treatment depends largely on your child’s individual needs. However, ABA often results in children acquiring many skills including:
- Showing more interest in people around them
- Communicating with other people more effectively
- Learning to ask for things they want (a certain toy or food, for example)
- Having more focus at school
- Reducing or stopping self-harming behaviors
- Having fewer tantrums or other outbursts
- Trying to access items but being denied
- Automatic stimulation that feels good
- Task avoidance
- Avoidance
What Does a Behavior Specialist Do for People with Autism?
The role of the behavior specialist is to walk into a setting, observe the environment, the activities, and the person in question; to gather data about what seems to set off or calm difficult behaviors; to suggest appropriate changes and/or interventions; and to troubleshoot until the interventions are successful. Interventions may range from behavior charts with stickers and motivational prizes to changes in an environment that is creating sensory overload or undue frustrations.
Ideally, by involving a behavior specialist, a parent or teacher can develop a postive set of tools to manage behaviors, improve outcomes, and generally make life easier for everyone. In the best of circumstances, it may be relatively simple to change a situation for the better. Changes in lighting, the addition of a visual schedule, extra warning time before transitions.