Important Life Skills
What We Offer
In addition to our ABA therapy services, ABC has other programs that can also be added to your child’s curriculum. We have specific programs to assist & help.
Potty Training
Our detailed formula for success will typically have your child independently urinating in the toilet in only 3-4 days. We provide you with all the information you will need and helpful tips and pointers as well. If accidents happen along the way, we’ve got you covered. Our program includes everything you will need to successfully potty train your child and have them independently use the bathroom within a few days.
Feeding Program
The first part of our program helps children use utensils (forks and spoons especially). The second part helps children expand what is typically a very rigid and restricted diet. The health implications of expanding a child’s diet will help him/her in a multitude of ways.
Parent Training
While therapy can be extremely beneficial, trained professionals can’t be with the child at all times. Parent Training helps the child get the right kind of intervention as often as possible. In a typical Parent Training session, the parent or caregiver and their child will work together as they are coached by a therapist. The parent and therapist will decide on specific skills to practice at home until they can follow up in the next session.
Peer Interaction Therapy
Our Peer Interaction program focuses on advancing social skills between the client and a peer of around the same age. Children with autism, and other developmental delays, often struggle with social skills and may have a hard time interacting with other children and making friends.
This program is essential in supporting children in having relationships and creating friendships with other children their age and engaging with them appropriately. These particular sessions begin very structured, having the children participating in activities together at a table under the direct guidance of the therapist.
As the children become more comfortable with each other, when they begin engaging in independent conversations, and have basic interaction skills mastered, such as eye contact and reciprocating information, they will begin doing things like playing board games and practicing more advanced conversation skills. The interactions will progress to more independent, unstructured sessions, where the children will practice more advanced social skills, collaboration, and problem-solving, as well as understanding gestures and interpreting body language.