BHW’s intensive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program for children under three is a comprehensive treatment approach that includes behavioral, speech, and occupational therapy for individuals facing autism and other developmental disabilities.
Each individual works 1:1 with a behavioral therapist on prescribed goals derived from an intervention plan. We utilize research-based methods in therapy with the intention to generalize skills across settings. Each session varies with the needs of the individual but usually incorporates language acquisition, play skills, self-help skills, behavioral modification, and social skills training.
BHW’s positive behavior support program includes 1:1 behavior intervention in various school environments to address a broad range of challenging behaviors such as: aggression, elopement, self-injury, and tantrums. Our primary objectives are to improve academic performance, replace challenging behaviors, and increase communication, social, and coping skills. BHW believes that students have more to gain when all relevant providers, including the school team, work as one collaborative and harmonious team.
As part of our multidisciplinary team approach, speech, language and occupational therapy services are available to individuals with developmental delays. Services include assessments, 1:1 or individual or group therapy, and consultations.
BHW training services are designed to teach caregivers behavioral strategies resulting in the child becoming more responsive to learning opportunities in the natural environment, decreasing the need for service providers in the long term, and decreasing the number of services from which the child is being removed in their natural environment. Workshops are available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.