ABA Therapy Initial Assessment
After your child has been diagnosed with autism, performing an assessment is the next step in determining the level of services, therapy hours, and customized treatment planning to meet their needs. When used as a post-diagnostic tool, there are a variety of assessment methods available depending on your child’s age and developmental challenges. The assessment will evaluate many different areas of developmental, functional, and cognitive skills, and will identify the specific skills that need to be built upon within the structure of the
therapy plan. Once we have analyzed the results of the assessment, our team will move forward to the next stage of treatment planning.
Treatment Planning
After the assessment has identified your child’s skill deficits, emotional responses, and functional challenges, your designated RBT will set benchmarks for measurable goals and desired outcomes. Each child’s individualized treatment plan will be unique and customized to their needs, but will typically include play-based strategies, life skills practice, activities of daily living, gross motor skills development, and social skills time. Each session will look a little bit different, and your RBT will always come prepared with toys, sensory items, planned activities, data collection tools, and everything else needed for a successful session. Through planned pairing activities, the RBT will work to build a special rapport with your child, which serves to build a solid foundation of trust and security. The therapist will also work to recognize your child’s favorite toys and preferences, and will use them throughout treatments to motivate and encourage your child to engage in therapy activities.
Although your child’s treatment plan has specific goals and objectives at the start of therapy sessions, your ABA Therapist will consistently monitor progress, refine goals, adjust prompts and adapt strategies as necessary. When your child’s ABA plan is executed with precision by our team of qualified RBTs, we’ll help your child enhance career opportunities, overcome developmental delays, facilitate behavior modification, and ultimately, lead a full, successful, and purposeful life.
ABA Therapy Outcomes
At LMI ABA Solutions, we deeply understand that every child is unique, and develops, grows, and learns at their own pace. Your child’s and family goals will be customized to meet individuality , level and barriers of your child and therapy plan will be specifically designed to meet your family desired outcomes.
Your child’s goals are designed to facilitate positive and sustainable outcomes and create socially significant behaviors, that included some of the following examples
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Behavior Regulation
Your child will learn to display socially acceptable behavior in a variety of settings, including social events, school environments, large group interactions, and more. The specific strategies of ABA therapy allow children to apply learned behavior techniques to their everyday environments, making real-life connections between therapy activities and daily life challenges.
Emotional Response
ABA therapy allows your child to learn and develop new and improved emotional responses that address unique behavioral triggers, resulting in fewer meltdowns and outbursts. We’ll work on impulse control, anger control, and coping strategies for noisy events, crowds, and public places.
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Establishing Healthy Routines
Children with autism thrive when healthy routines are in place, which leads to better sleep, increased self-confidence, and improved disposition. We’ll help your child master daily responsibilities, including feeding, teeth brushing, potty training, and other self-care tasks.
Academic Skill Development
During each therapy session, we’ll work on the academic areas that your child needs most,
which may include cognitive functioning, memory , comprehension, organization skills, or
improved focus and attention.
ADL
ABA therapy allows children to create and maintain behaviors to better handle new or challenging situations at school, at home, or in uncomfortable social settings. Your children will learn necessary skills required to be an independent at school, career development, home, community, including shopping, personal care and much more.
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Life Skill Development
ABA therapy allows autistic individuals to better handle new or challenging situations at school, at home, or in uncomfortable social settings. Older teens and young adults will learn necessary skills required to be an independent adult, including shopping, personal care, and career development.
Communication Skill Development
We’ll work with your child to develop all areas of communication skills, including verbal and non-verbal communication, to express themselves and advocate for themselves in a respestfull manner, body language, social communication cues, language development, and written communication.
How Is Progress Measured To Ensure Desirable Outcomes?
Data collection is one of the most important components in ABA therapy plan, as it allows us to
effectively measure acquired behavior, analyze, and record progress made toward your child’s
goals and objectives. The collected data is transferred to graphs, for visual comprehension and
simplicity to share with parents regarding behavioral change and skill development.
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As negative/maladaptive behavior decreases, and positive behavior is increase and improved, then
it will be generalized: when the individual will be able to apply the acquired behavior in various
setting with various people, and creating positive changes in their lives.
Our teachers and behavior technicians are always invested in your child’s therapy journey and
are able to monitor the direction of progress, We also encourage families to assist in data collection by observing behavioral changes and adaptive progress displayed by their child outside of formal therapy sessions.