Actualize potential. Amplify progress.
Our comprehensive ABA services enable your child to bring their potential to life and successfully handle whatever life throws their way.
In-home ABA therapy
Let us bring ABA therapy directly to your door, for a stress-free, at-home experience. Our therapists work with your child to develop essential skills in a comfortable and familiar environment.
School collaboration
With our support, your child can integrate into a regular classroom setting, so they can be successful academically, too.
Parent support and training
We’ll equip you with tools to handle stressful and challenging behaviors calmly, while improving family dynamics and keeping up therapy consistency.
Telehealth Option
Meet with your BCBA — sometimes remotely, if that’s more convenient — to discuss your child’s progress and learn ABA techniques you can apply yourself.
Your ABA team
BCBA
Your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) assesses your child and works with you set goals and create a unique therapy plan. The BCBA oversees and guides the RBT, joining sessions periodically, to ensure quality care.
RBT
During sessions, your child will practice and master skills with an experienced RBT (Registered Behavior Technician). They’ll use skill and creativity to personalize the therapy to your child’s needs and learning style.
Your Actify action plan:
01
Evaluation
You’ll meet one-on-one with your dedicated BCBA to discuss your child’s challenges. They’ll develop a personalized plan geared towards your child’s unique needs.
02
Therapy
Our RBTs bring smiles, support, and skill-building straight to your living room. They’ll engage your child in fun activities to teach them new skills, using positive reinforcement to help the lessons stick.
03
Real results
Your child will thrive as they learn to do daily tasks, express themselves, and manage their emotions, thereby creating positive change in themselves and your family.
ABA in Action
Explore some of the methods and techniques we use to help your child.
Modeling
The ABA therapist will show your child the wanted behavior so they fully understand what they should be doing. For example, an ABA therapist will show your child how to use a pencil correctly. They’ll point out how their fingers hold the pencil and where, and how much pressure it takes to draw a line. Your child will then be guided to use the pencil in the same way.
Exercise
Exercise helps the following:
– Gross motor skills (like throwing a ball and skipping)
– Fine motor skills (like holding a pencil and using a fork)
– Improve memory and recall
– Improve sleep quality
– Helps your child calm down and channel their energy
– Encourage social and verbal skills
– Give overall feelings of happiness and success
Functional Communication Training (FCT)
This method teaches your child to replace unwanted behaviors with positive behaviors and communication. For example, a child gets frustrated so they’ll throw their lunch across the kitchen. The ABA therapist works with the child to replace that behavior with expressing themselves. They’ll identify the emotion and share it. “Mom, I don’t like these food choices!”
Redirection
By breaking an unwanted habit while it’s happening, your child will learn the appropriate behavior. For example, your child gets upset so they’ll hit and throw something. The therapist will step in and redirect the child’s attention by doing an action (such as a tap on the shoulder) or say something. This will break the behavior. Then, the child will practice saying, “Excuse me. I didn’t like that you did that.”
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
DTT breaks down a behavior or skill into very small, discrete pieces. The ABA therapist will help your child master the steps one at a time so they’ll be able to gain the full skill without getting overwhelmed.
Extinction
Often, unwanted habits are accidentally reinforced. The method of extinction in ABA therapy involves gradually reducing a specific behavior by removing the reinforcement (outcome) that maintains it. For example, if a child throws a tantrum to receive attention, the therapist would ignore the tantrum (no attention given) to extinguish that behavior over time. Similarly, if a child screams for a toy, rather than giving them the toy immediately, the adult can wait until the child calms down before providing it. Now, the expected behavior of requesting calmly instead of screaming gets reinforced. By consistently applying extinction, the undesired behavior becomes less frequent since it no longer has the results the child was hoping for.
Modeling
The ABA therapist will show your child the wanted behavior so they fully understand what they should be doing. For example, an ABA therapist will show your child how to use a pencil correctly. They’ll point out how their fingers hold the pencil and where, and how much pressure it takes to draw a line. Your child will then be guided to use the pencil in the same way.
Exercise
Exercise helps the following:
– Gross motor skills (like throwing a ball and skipping)
– Fine motor skills (like holding a pencil and using a fork)
– Improve memory and recall
– Improve sleep quality
– Helps your child calm down and channel their energy
– Encourage social and verbal skills
– Give overall feelings of happiness and success
Functional Communication Training (FCT)
This method teaches your child to replace unwanted behaviors with positive behaviors and communication. For example, a child gets frustrated so they’ll throw their lunch across the kitchen. The ABA therapist works with the child to replace that behavior with expressing themselves. They’ll identify the emotion and share it. “Mom, I don’t like these food choices!”
Redirection
By breaking an unwanted habit while it’s happening, your child will learn the appropriate behavior. For example, your child gets upset so they’ll hit and throw something. The therapist will step in and redirect the child’s attention by doing an action (such as a tap on the shoulder) or say something. This will break the behavior. Then, the child will practice saying, “Excuse me. I didn’t like that you did that.”
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
DTT breaks down a behavior or skill into very small, discrete pieces. The ABA therapist will help your child master the steps one at a time so they’ll be able to gain the full skill without getting overwhelmed.
Extinction
Often, unwanted habits are accidentally reinforced. The method of extinction in ABA therapy involves gradually reducing a specific behavior by removing the reinforcement (outcome) that maintains it. For example, if a child throws a tantrum to receive attention, the therapist would ignore the tantrum (no attention given) to extinguish that behavior over time. Similarly, if a child screams for a toy, rather than giving them the toy immediately, the adult can wait until the child calms down before providing it. Now, the expected behavior of requesting calmly instead of screaming gets reinforced. By consistently applying extinction, the undesired behavior becomes less frequent since it no longer has the results the child was hoping for.
