Our Services
ABA
Intensive Therapy
We utilize evidence-based practices to increase functional skills such as communication, social, and behavioral, while reducing maladaptive behaviors. RBTs are experienced in delivering Naturalistic Environment Teaching (NET), Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT), Verbal Behavior (VB), and using a variety of augmented communication devices.
*Per the BACB guidelines, our intensive therapies meet the recommended intensity levels and comprehensive treatment goals. Treatment often involves an intensity level of 30-40 hours of 1:1 direct treatment to the client per week, not including caregiver training, supervision, and other needed services
Enrichment Program: This program is geared for children from ages 2-6, with a focus on individualized goals improving communication, social, and behavioral skills, with an added emphasis on school readiness. The day is structured after a comparable PreK schedule, with structured lessons in a group setting and individual 1:1 setting. Our program uniquely offers both group and individual settings while an RBT is always working with each child. Special weekly lessons include, yoga, zumbini, art, science, and an academic block utilizing PreK curriculum.
Extensive Therapy
As with intensive therapy, extensive therapy utilizes evidence-based practices to increase functional skills such as communication, social, and behavioral, while reducing maladaptive behaviors. RBTs are experienced in delivering Naturalistic Environment Teaching (NET), Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT), Verbal Behavior (VB), and using a variety of augmented communication devices.
*Per the BACB guidelines, our extensive therapies meet the recommended intensity levels and focused treatment goals. Focused ABA generally ranges from 10-25 hours per week of direct treatment (plus direct and indirect supervision and caregiver training).
Social Skills: This program is tailored for children from ages 6-12, with a focus on building appropriate peer interactions including responding and initiating with others, sharing and turn-taking, expanding social pragmatic language, problem solving, executive functioning, identifying emotional situations, and daily life skills. Each day involves a fun activity in which children work on a variety of these skills, including their own individualized goals from their treatment plan.
Community Outreach
There is a growing need in our community for ABA services, not only for families with a child with a diagnosis, but for spreading awareness about behavior management and how ABA can be useful in everyday lives!
Free Parent Training Presentation: We offer this training on a monthly basis for anyone interested in learning more about autism and a new diagnosis, an introduction to the principles of ABA, how it can be implemented, and how to look out for funding.
Free 8-Week Parent Training: This program is tailored to families that are interested in learning more about ABA and receiving parent training to improve their child’s communication, social skills, and reduce problem behaviors. Parents will receive on-going weekly training for 8 weeks to learn how to implement ABA procedures to work on specific goals they have selected with their child. Families that are a good fit and qualify for this program will be determined on a first-come first-served basis.
School Services
For services including parent and teacher, we have several options available.
ABA Teacher Training: Classroom Management: Many schools and teachers are eager to learn more strategies for classroom and behavior management. Therefore, this training is for all children in the classroom setting. Helpful strategies that will be discussed include, token economy systems, group contingencies, and other antecedent modifications that can be easily implemented by the teacher to create a successful learning environment for all!
1:1 or group ABA in School: Schools and families that are open to ongoing services qualify for 1:1 extensive therapy in school, as well as group social skills in school. This can be offered during the school day during specials or extracurriculars.
Consultation Services: This service is provided on a case-by-case basis, depending on the need for the school or families. Consultation includes, observation by BCBA, advice on problem behaviors and/or classroom management, and/or in-depth training on increasing desired behaviors and decreasing problem behaviors.
ABA Parent Training
Helping Your Child Thrive: This training will focus on Applied Behavior Analysis and how you can use ABA in your everyday lives. We will discuss how you, as parents, can build your child’s confidence and motivation through constructive feedback and positive reinforcement. We will also focus on managing problem behaviors and increasing proficiency in essential skills.
Consultation
Consultation: This service is delivered on a case-by-case basis and is provided to families and/or other specialists (ex. speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, doctors, etc.) to ensure collaboration among the child’s team. It includes observation by BCBA, advice on problem behaviors and/or classroom management, and/or in-depth training on increasing desired behaviors and decreasing problem behaviors.
Potty Training: Lots of times parents of toddlers find themselves lost when it comes to potty training. It’s a struggle to know when or how to start the process. We provide the training necessary to accomplish this milestone.
OT
Promise Center for Autism’s Occupational Therapy Program helps children reach their goals by doing the things they want and need to do through the use of daily activities/occupations. Whether the need is sensory processing, cognition, motor development or life skills, our program will use a variety of techniques to help your child get there. Interventions are child-led and meet the child where they are. Some techniques are SOS approach for feeding, DIR/floortime, Neurodevelopmental Techniques (NDT), Reflex Integration, Handwriting Without Tears, Brain Gym, mindfulness and therapeutic listening. We also specialize in environmental modification and assess medical equipment needs such as wheelchairs, bathing equipment and orthotics. A list of skills we help your child with are: handwriting, dressing, toileting, bathing, grooming/hygiene, household chores, functional mobility, sensory integration, executive functioning and feeding. We also invite you to collaborate in order to best serve you and your child by participating in family training and consultations as needed. We hope to see you here!
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Feeding
The Feeding program at Promise Center for Autism is focused on helping children ages 2-12 who struggle to eat and accept a wide variety of foods. Food is nourishment for your child’s body, and we want to help your child thrive. Our mission is to provide families and their children with the skills and techniques necessary to love eating while creating successful mealtime routines.
Our unique feeding program promises to help children improve their ability to eat while increasing the variety of nutritive foods in his/her diet. We empower parents and caregivers by providing explicit hands-on training and interactive observations to carry out interventions to the house setting and see progress even faster. Our team, which includes experts from more specialties, can determine the cause of your child’s eating struggles. Whether they have low muscle tone in their jaw and tongue, sensory challenges, or behavioral issues, we can provide the personalized treatment they need. Home-based telehealth options are available upon request once the feeding intervention has started at the clinic.
A compassionate team of experts…
Each of our therapists is specially trained and have a special passion for helping children eat—and enjoy eating. We strongly believe that having a good and healthy relationship with food is the key to being able to enjoy food with all our senses. Our compassionate approach ensures that children remain happy, relaxed, and engaged during the taste sessions as well as enjoy fun activities that will help foster skills that are necessary to tolerating new foods.
Our approach is based on Managing Eating Aversions and Limited Variety (MEAL) Plan
We aim to equip kids and families with the resources needed to help a child with autism spectrum disorder thrive during mealtime through a 13-session treatment course instructed by a board-certified behavior analyst.
Our outpatient program serves children with feeding disorders who can be treated by less intensive therapy, such as one hour, once a week.
The Autism Managing Eating Aversions and Limited Variety Plan vs Parent Education: A Randomized Clinical Trial. – Abstract – Europe PMC