ABA 1:1

 Shine’s team of highly-trained and experienced practitioners of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), are well versed in helping your child learn complex skills, functional communication (helping your child effectively communicate what he or she wants), academic and learning readiness, self-help, and socialization. ABA uses positive reinforcement, behavior shaping, motivation, along with visual and verbal cues to help your child learn and adapt to his environment. Due to extreme variance in the presentation of ASD, each program is uniquely tailored to every child and is supervised by a Shine Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Some of the more common treatment modalities within ABA and used by Shine are:

• Incidental Teaching

• Natural Environment Teaching

• Pivotal Response Teaching

• Discrete Trial Teaching

• Verbal Behavior Teaching

• Social and Play Skills

By using a variety of techniques, learning complex skills is broken down in smaller, individual steps that are guided by Shine staff; including the Behavior Technician (BT) and BCBA. Through 1:1 ABA, your child will have many opportunities to practice and generalize new skills while simultaneously being reinforced and supported by his BT. New skills are added, when appropriate, and guidance is gradually faded back so your child will gain positive social reinforcement naturally from his environment.