Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is a form of therapy that takes into account your child's unique needs. At the Growing Together Therapy Center, we custom-tailor an ABA-based course of therapy that utilizes the Verbal Behavior approach. This method of analysis focuses on teaching specific components of operants (mand, tact, echoic etc.).

Verbal Behavior Terms
 
Mand: Requesting wants and needs
Tact: Labeling or describing objects
Receptive:  Following directions or instructions, discriminating between pictures and objects
Imitation: Repeating, copying what was observed
Echoic: Vocal imitation/echoing the sounds and word of others
Intraverbal: Verbally (or using sign language) responding to questions or participating in conversations so that what you say is determined by what other person says
Textural: Reading
Transcriptive: Writing
FFC: Feature, function and class
RFFC: Receptive feature, function and class-responding to items in the environment when provided a description of them and not their "names"
EO/MO: Establishing/motivating operation
NET: Natural Environment Teaching- focuses on the child’s interest and activities as a guide for instruction in their daily environment
ITT: Intensive Trail Teaching

Is Your Child Exhibiting Inappropriate Behaviors?

The Growing Together Therapeutic Center provides a Functional Assessment of problem behaviors to help understand why the behaviors occur. Functional behavioral assessment is...

• an approach used to help a child with a chronic behavior problem
• a problem solving method - one which takes time and creative collaboration among professionals and parents
• built on the assumption that, if a child keeps repeating a problem behavior, that behavior must be serving some purpose for the child - otherwise, he or she would not keep repeating it
• a process of looking for patterns in what happens around and/or to the student just before and just after the problem behavior
• examination of these patterns to identify their purpose or their "function;" some possible functions are: avoiding something, getting something, and making something happen
• creative problem-solution scenarios that enable the child to achieve the same purpose in a more appropriate or more acceptable way

Let us help you understand the reasons why your child is displaying inappropriate behavior. From there, we will work together to construct a behavioral intervention plan that works to eliminate the undesirable behaviors and replace them with higher functioning ones that are socially acceptable and serve a distinct purpose for the child.

Contact us to schedule an evaluation for ABA Therapy  and behavioral intervention needs.

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