ABA Therapy

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy is a highly effective approach to enhancing socially significant behaviors and limiting behaviors that interfere with learning. In multiple studies, ABA therapy has been shown to significantly improve children’s cognitive and language skills, as well as adaptive behaviors. Through frequent data analysis and environmental interventions, our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and staff therapists work with you and your child to increase independence and success through programming that caters to your child’s needs.

ABA Therapy is the Most Effective Treatment for ASD

Did you Know?

High quality ABA intervention can do more than enhance socially significant behaviors, it can improve brain function. Research has shown that ABA Therapy not only improves social skills, but also brain responses to social cues.

Being nonverbal at age 4 does NOT mean children will never speak. With ABA Therapy, most will learn to speak, and over half will speak fluently. Building language skills is a major focus of ABA Therapy.

Though autism is considered to be life long, with ABA Therapy, some children make so much progress that they lose the core symptoms and no longer meet the diagnostic criteria for autism. This is called “optimal outcome”, and research is showing that high quality, early intervention using ABA Therapy is key.

For EPIC Changes We

Evaluate

Through observations, interviews, & assessments our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) determine areas of your child’s repertoire to strengthen.

Program

We design a custom program for your child based on his or her needs and your shared goals using the latest research and best practices.

Implement

Working one-on-one with your child, our therapists implement the program. Parent training is provided so that you can help maximize the program’s effect.

Change

As your child’s behavior changes, the program is refined to ensure continued progress.

Pediatrician Recommended

The following quotes are taken from the testimony of Vera F. Talt, MD, FAAP, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics before the Subcommittee on Personnel, Senate Armed Services Committee. Figures are taken from a UCLA study comparing a group of children with ASD who received ABA to a group of children with ASD who did not.

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"An example of a demonstrated, effective treatment for ASD is Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA. ABA uses behavioral health principles to increase and maintaining positive adaptive behavior and reduce negative behaviors or narrow the conditions under which they occur. ABA can teach new skills, and generalize them to new environments or situations. ABA focuses on the measurement and objective evaluation of observed behavior in the home, school, and community."

Figure 1 - A UCLA study comparing a group of children who received ABA with a control group of children who did not found that 47% of the children who received ABA where mainstreamed in classrooms with no additional support needed, 42% needed low-intensity special education (for language delay), and only 11% needed high-intensity special education (for autism or intellectual disability).

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"ASD is a medical/neurodevelopmental condition with behavioral symptoms that are directly addressed by applied behavior analysis methods. ABA has proved effective in addressing the core symptoms of autism as well as developing skills and improving and enhancing functioning in numerous areas that affect the health and wellbeing of people with ASD"

Figure 2 - In the UCLA study, 47% of the children who received ABA achieved normal IQ, while 53% did not.

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"The effectiveness of ABA-based interventions in ASDs has been well documented through a long history of research in university and community settings. Children who receive early intensive behavioral treatment have been shown to make substantial gains in cognition, language, academic performance, and adaptive behavior as well as some measures of social behavior, and their outcomes have been significantly better than those of children in control groups."

Figure 3 - In the UCLA study, only 2% of the children in the control group (the group that did not receive ABA) achieved normal IQ, while 98% did not.