Because no two children are the same, the team at Autism Early Intervention Clinics creates an individualized program for your child based on a thorough assessment of his or her basic language and learning skills.

Programs can include treatment for:

• language delays,

• deficits in academic, self-help and social skills,

• problems with toileting, sleep and eating habits, and

• problem behaviors (non-compliance, stereotypy, self-injury, aggressive behavior).

The objective is to enhance each child’s abilities in these areas by providing services in our clinic, at your home, in school or wherever else they are needed.

For language delays, ABA therapy involves language training (based on B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior) to teach all the different functions (meanings) of words.  First of all, the child is taught to ask for things that he wants using vocals, signs or PECS.

For deficits in academic, self-help and social skills, ABA therapy involves:

• breaking skills into smaller parts, teaching each sub-skill at a time,

• repeated practice until mastery,

• use of prompting and prompt fading techniques as necessary, and

• use of positive reinforcement (rewards).

For the reduction of problem behaviors, ABA therapy involves

• an analysis of the situation in which the problem behavior occurs

• an analysis of the consequences that maintain the behavior, and

• implementation of a program to teach appropriate replacement behaviors.