ABA Therapy

ABA therapists will provide individual behavior therapy in the child’s home and shadowing at the child’s school, in coordination with school administrators. ABA therapists will receive comprehensive training in behavioral theory, reinforcement, the application of discrete trial training, the nuances of prompting and fading prompts, behavior management, generalization, maintenance of acquired skills, and interactive play with peer groups and social development. In addition to this, continuous refresher training courses and research on new techniques shall be provided to ABA therapists so that they are able to maintain a desired level of quality of service.

The list below provides CARD’s treatment strategies for the implementation of ABA therapy. The Center shall provide the same ABA therapy in consultation and consistent with the practices and procedures implemented by C.A.R.D.

- Teaching Vital Skills
- Language and Communication
- Social Skills
- Play Skills
- Theory of Mind
- Executive Functioning
- Self-Help & Motor Skills
- Overall Adaptive Behavior
- Reduce/Eliminate Maladaptive Behaviors
- Early Intervention Plans, typically consisting of intensive treatment in which basic skills are taught in the first years and advanced social and language skills are taught in later years.
- Individualized and Comprehensive Treatment in all skill domains (language, social, adaptive and academic)
- Use of the Principles of Behavior Analysis to build functional skills and reduce challenging behaviors
- Individuals with experience in autism and advanced training in ABA supervised treatment
- Age Appropriate Learning Objectives
- One-on-One Therapy, initially administered in the home then generalized to other settings such as school or a group format
- Intensive Treatment, 20-40 hours of therapy per week
- At least two years of continuous service for each child
- Commencement of treatment between 16-72 months of age