Our program begins with a thorough assessment of each child's current skills and areas needing improvement. We use evidence-based tools to evaluate communication, cogntive, and social skills, and adaptive behavior, ensuring a personalized approach to their development.
The program may also include individualized educational, developmental, cognitive, executive functioning, adaptive, and psychoeducational assessments to better understand the child’s learning profile, academic strengths and challenges, attention, processing abilities, communication, school participation, emotional functioning, and developmental needs. Assessment information may help guide individualized intervention planning, academic support strategies, school recommendations, skill development goals, and overall educational planning based on the child’s unique profile and areas where support may be helpful.
Our ABA program provides individualized support across developmental, academic, behavioral, social, emotional, communication, and learning-related areas that may affect a child’s ability to participate successfully in school environments.
Our program supports the development of foundational academic, cognitive, executive functioning, and learning-readiness skills that can help children participate more successfully within school and educational environments. This encompasses the cultivation of foundational literacy, reading comprehension, writing proficiency, math readiness, cognitive processing, independent homework completion, problem-solving, memory, attention, and other cognitive capabilities. We emphasize the development of classroom-essential competencies such as directive comprehension, sustained attention, and collaborative group engagement. Through strategic partnerships with educational professionals, we ensure our curriculum aligns with academic standards, facilitating a seamless transition from therapeutic environment to educational setting.
We also focus on the underlying developmental and learning-related capacities that often affect academic functioning, including communication, emotional regulation, flexibility, coping skills, motivation, transitions, adaptive functioning, and the ability to participate meaningfully within structured learning environments. Depending on the child’s needs, individualized educational, developmental, cognitive, or psychoeducational assessments may also be used to help better understand the child’s learning profile and guide academic support strategies and intervention planning.
When appropriate, our team may collaborate with families, educators, schools, tutors, psychologists, speech-language therapists, occupational therapists, and other professionals involved in supporting the child’s educational development and long-term learning goals.
The decision to transition to school is a collaborative process between the family and the child's clinicians. Our team works collaboratively with families and, when appropriate, schools and other professionals to help support smoother transitions into educational environments through individualized planning, school collaboration, parent guidance, classroom support strategies, and ongoing recommendations based on the child’s strengths and developmental needs. We collaborate closely with families and educational professionals to develop a detailed transition plan tailored to each child's unique needs and strengths. This plan includes:
Family involvement plays an important role in helping children transition more successfully into school environments. Parents can support this process by helping reinforce routines, communication, independence, emotional regulation, learning readiness, coping skills, and classroom-related expectations within everyday home and community experiences.
Our program includes:
Our team works in partnership with schools to ensure a seamless transition. Services include:
By providing these comprehensive services, our School Development Program aims to close the ability gap between children with autism and their peers, facilitating their integration into educational settings and promoting their overall success.