In-Home ABA Therapy

Why Choose ABA Therapy?

Our goal at Achievement Therapy Services is to work with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in order to improve their quality of life. Many years of research have been dedicated to ABA, and hundreds of studies specific to autism have shown that this therapy is effective. Children who participate in ABA programs demonstrate greater progress than those who are in programs using other methods.

This form of therapy is designed to increase behaviors that promote well-being while decreasing behaviors that interfere with communication and learning. By working one-on-one with your child, our therapists can create achievable goals that are built on their needs and priorities. A child’s behavior holds a varying degree of social significance to them, and this therapy can help to identify the importance of each one. The proper intervention will help to develop a greater independence for the patient.

Psychological therapy examines behavior to look for established patterns as well as what environmental factors may be influencing them. Not only do we look at the pattern, we also attempt to discover what happens before and after the event. This allows us to develop strategies that deal directly with the behavior itself.

The key to our approach is identifying why a behavior happens in the first place. Functional Behavior Assessment allows our therapists to understand what your child is receiving from a particular behavior. This data is used to develop a treatment plan that addresses a child’s individual needs.

An effective plan includes using the things that motivate a child to improve learning. Discovering what they enjoy and have fun with can increase learning ability. Finding healthy motivation will make learning more productive.

This form of therapy will help to establish cues that a child can use to better understand positive responses. Prompting them with visual support or gestures provides them with a hint for proper responses. Over time, these prompts are slowly removed to encourage the healthy response independently.

Positive reinforcement is also a key component in any therapy. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder often have limited interests, so it is important to encourage positive behaviors instead of negative responses. Our patients are taught what is expected of them in a multitude of situations through encouragement.

Even the simplest tasks can involve many steps to complete. Those with ASD often need each of these steps to be identified and taught to them. Identifying a baseline for a task and slowly adding steps to it will allow a child to eventually gain independence with that task.

Complete and systematic instruction is an important component of this therapy. Discrete Trial Instruction and Natural Environment Training are used to develop responses that can be applied to a variety of situations. When they are used together, children can learn to adapt their skills beyond the scope of what they have learned.

By combining all of the techniques described above, our therapists are able to create an effective treatment plan by identifying and modifying problematic behaviors. Our certified staff approaches each patient’s case individually in order to create the best possible learning conditions. Applying the correct learning systems allows your child to gain positive results without confusing or frustrating them. Continuing this therapy offers a positive solution with long-term results, and provides the learned skills your child will need now as well as in their adult lives.