Our services.
Applied Behavior Analysis
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is an approach that uses learning and motivation to teach functional skills, improve social interactions, and reduce challenging behaviors in children with autism. Behavior analyst believe that behaviors are learned through consequences. Those consequences help us predict whether or not a behavior will occur again in the future. Using evidence based procedures, we assess your child's skills and determine the functions of their behaviors. From there we work together with the parent to develop an intervention plan to teach new skills that are essential to functional living, to reduce challenging behaviors such as tantrums, and teach alternative behaviors that are appropriate.
ABA is not a clinic only setting. We go where the behavior occurs (home, playground, store, etc) so that we can teach them how to function in their natural environment. Parent participation is vital to the child's progress. Parent training allows parents to learn the skills we use to help their child succeed.
ABA has been demonstrated to be effective in several areas including: verbal behavior, social skills, adaptive skills, academic performance, reducing challenging behaviors, and increasing appropriate behaviors.
Speech Therapy
Our speech and language therapy services provide comprehensive assessment and treatment plans for individuals who struggle in a variety of areas of communication. These areas include the following: language, articulation, motor speech, fluency, cognitive development and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
Language Therapy
Language therapy focuses on both receptive language (what a child understands) and expressive language (what a child expresses with words/gestures/pictures) along with pre-language skills, pre-literacy skills and social language. Language therapy is beneficial for children who have difficulty following directions, for children who have trouble asking and answering questions, for children who are not meeting developmental milestones, and for children who have difficulty interacting with their peers. AAC is a great tool to enhance communication for children who are learning to verbalize, who have difficulty verbalizing, or who are nonverbal.
Articulation therapy, motor speech
Speech therapy targets the intelligibility (ability to be understood) of a child through focusing on improving productions of sounds and targeting motor coordination. Therapy for these areas of speech is helpful to improve speech understanding and to decrease frustration in children.
Fluency therapy
Fluency therapy is available for individuals who stutter by treating disfluencies through identification of situations/feelings toward stuttering and identifying the types of disfluencies produced by the child. A treatment plan is developed to teach and practice speech strategies and modifications and also to build confidence in the child.
Our goal is to enhance your child’s strengths, improve his/her weak areas, and build confidence in his or her communication through providing a comprehensive evaluation, evidence-based treatment and parent support!