Behavior & Communication Therapy is dedicated to delivering Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior services to Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities including Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders. The services provided to your Child, to You, and to your Group are individualized and designed to increase Communication.
Just as students must not only learn but know that they are learning, so teachers must not only teach but know that they are teaching.
- B.F. Skinner
Behavior Analytic Services for your Child . . .
- Teach Communication: specifically requesting needs, labeling objects actions and emotions, converse about topics, and receptive understanding; (Verbal Behavior).
> Mands, tacts, intraverbals, receptive
- Understand Cause of Behavior Problems, and create a plan to Manage and Change these Behaviors; (functional assessment):
> Reduce Inappropriate Behaviors and teach replacement and more functional behaviors.
- Social skills: Interacting with peers and siblings more effectively
- Increase Reading, Math and Writing skills, the building blocks to other academic successes.
- Teach Daily Living and Independent Functioning skills. Skills need to be more independent within a specific area, less reliant on others, and free to rely on oneself.
Behavior Analytic Services for You . . .
- Understand the Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior.
- Understand the application of these Basic Principles to teaching your child new skills.
> Understand what teaching is.
- Understand an assessment process that leads to specific skills to be directly taught.
- Design and implement an Individual Plan that leads to increases in communication, following directions, academics, social skills and other daily functional skills.
Behavior Analytic Services for your Group, Therapists, Classroom or School
Trainings:
Applied Behavior Analysis:
Understand the basics and apply the basics to teaching
Verbal Behavior:
Build Communication from the Child's Interests
Functional Assessment and Behavior Program Development
Classroom Behavior Management
Assessment and Goal selection for Individual Students (including IEP's)
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