We’re Making History in the ABA Field
Now’s the time to join our Online Coaching Series! Learn what makes our Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program GREAT 💌
If your child was recently diagnosed with autism, you may have already started on the wild and confusing research odyssey. Overwhelmed with the process? Uneasy about some of the ABA findings or experiences to date? Oh yeah… We get it.
In fact, we get it so much that we created A Step At A Time to shake up the field. We offer patients, caregivers, and all stakeholders involved, a sense of control and a feeling of satisfaction as we plan and roll out a child’s quality care journey toward the destination of independence, a step at a time, together.
Introducing our one-of-its-kind live Online Coaching Series for an open conversation and discovery of the green flags 🟢🏳️ that characterize quality care.
Here is a preview of the glorious content to be discussed in our upcoming session:
📈📉 Scientifically Driven Outcomes (That Are Actually Tracked!)
Any professional that spends time with your child should be able to adequately explain, and show proof, of how data is being taken, tracked, and evaluated. They should have concrete examples of how progress is being driven and what outcomes look like. You should have complete access to view any type of data at any point in the process.
🌿🌱 Natural Environment Teaching
Quality care does not look like spending three-hour sessions at a table running flash cards. Quality care looks like meaningful, well-thought-out natural teaching that encompasses a variety of environments, situations, and materials. Quality care ensures that what is being taught is valuable to the patient’s life long-term, and to do so, teaching needs to be in the most natural situations, or those that mimic real-life situations as much as possible.
🙏🕊️ Compassionate and Individualized Interactions
How should you feel after chatting with a professional clinician about your child’s goals or progress? You should feel heard! You should feel confident and equipped with the tools to make progress! You should feel like the clinician really knows your child, and CARES about them. If you feel like another cog in the wheel – run! Every interaction needs to be compassionate, and every tool that is built for your child needs to be individualized to them – not copied from someone else’s plan.
🥇💪 Using Reinforcement and Motivation, NOT Punishment
While our science does teach punishment strategies – they are not used. In my time in the field, I encountered one center-based program that utilized punishment strategies – and I left. These are the ways of Old ABA, and they will never be used at a high-quality, ethical organization. Instead, any clinician should be able to explain and show data for what reinforcement and motivational systems are in place, and how they are successful. You should be able to easily carry any of these systems over into daily life, and if they’re too complicated to do so, let the clinician know!
☯🧒 Adopting a “Whole” Child Perspective
A whole-child approach ensures that your child is making gains across a variety of developmental areas – communication, social skills, daily-living skills, and more. In using this approach, we always collaborate with other specialties of service providers – such as Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists - to ensure each child receives assistance in all necessary areas. When a clinician is willing and looking to collaborate, this is a green flag!
At A Step At A Time, we strive to practice by all of the green flags 🟢 🏳️ listed above, and more!
If you are interested in diving deeper into these topics, learning more about quality care, and what you should look for in a provider and/or if you would like to ask questions to our knowledgeable host, sign up now for our crash course in quality care!
Your A Step At A Time Care Team ❤
To sign up for our webinar, please use the above scheduling tool to subscribe. Our workshops are hosted by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst twice a month for 1.5 hour each. We limit our attendance to 12 participants, to ensure the setting is intimate and personalized. This offers an open forum for caregivers or professionals to discuss questions and feel supported.
Please note that our webinars are offered on a self-pay basis. Check out the next few dates and sign up now with our scheduling tool above. The more you learn, the more we thrive as a team. Why? Because caregivers then feel empowered to ensure a continuum of care outside of official treatment hours. Your little one wins. Sign up for multiple sessions at a time to get a discounted hourly rate.
Our upcoming topics for future months include the following: toilet training; schedules within the home; sleeping challenges; picky eaters (non-medical); traveling with young children; creating independence.