Your Partners in Special Service Development & Delivery

Methods

ABA uses a highly structured, evidenced-based approach towards providing positive behavioral supports and interventions. As such, ABA's highly trained professional and para-professional staff work with students to engage in a cognitive restructuring process to support social/emotional skill development.

Over the past (15) years, we have worked to refine our system of therapeutic supports and interventions which promote students’ ability to learn, as well as their social skills development, coping strategies, and resiliency. The ABA Model is based on Four Key components:

• Positive Behavior Supports and Interventions
• Therapeutic supports, social skill development
• Educational programming and intervention
• Parent and Family Training 
   

We have found that students with social, emotional, and behavioral needs thrive in environments with clear expectations, systems, and procedures. To support this type of environment, ABA incorporates the following into its programs:

• Daily tracking of students' performance against targeted behavior outcomes
• Structured Level System to identify students' readiness for transition to the next least restrictive environment
• Functional behavior analysis and behavior intervention planning
• Application of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® techniques

Academics and Curriculum

We focus on supporting the whole child through a combination of academic, social, behavioral, and therapeutic supports. This integrated approach assures that as students prepare to return to their LRE, they have as many of the skills as possible to find success. To facilitate this, ABA offers small class sizes, with a standard staff to student ratio of approximately 1:4. Smaller instructional settings, coupled with evidence-based and individualized instructional methods, helps students achieve academic success and further academic skill development.

With the goal that all students should have the opportunity to transition or re-integrate into a school or district's least restrictive environment, ABA Schools works to align individual academic programming with each district's Standards for Curriculum & Instruction. This process promotes a more seamless transition into the least restrictive environment, while providing students with targeted supports within the ABA model.

ABA uses a multi-modal approach to learning, to increase success and achievement. Classroom instructional methods may include:

• Direct Instruction
• Differentiated Instruction
• Small Group and Cooperative Learning
• Multi-Sensory Approaches
• Frequent and Targeted Curriculum-Based Assessments
• Remedial or Developmental Curriculum and Instruction