B.E.S.T. can provide brief or on-going consultation in the areas of:
-Program designs
-Data collection systems
-Treatment strategies
-Behavior support strategies
-Consultation Services can be provided by BCBA’s, BCABA’s, or Experienced Master’s Level Supervisors.
B.E.S.T. provides comprehensive ABA treatment to infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children and adolescents. Services are available in both a one-to-one and small group format and are available across a variety of settings (home, school, center and community) depending on the needs of the individual.
Comrehensive Services Include:
Focused ABA involves providing direct services to the client and targeting one or two specific behaviors. These targets can involve acquiring or reducing specific behaviors. Maintaining conversation, independent living, organization, compliance, safety, stereotypy, and self-injury are are just some examples of behaviors that can be targeted through this model. B.E.S.T provides focused ABA to toddlers, preschools, children and adolescents. Services are available in both a one-to-one and small group format and are available across a variety of settings (home, school, center and community) depending on the needs of the individual.
Focused ABA Services Include:
B.E.S.T. provides a mock or “practice” preschool/school year round. During the school year, a preschool program is run just like a private preschool. Children who are ready to participate as part of their comprehensive treatment do so, in preparation to attend a preschool in the community. Additionally, peers from the community are invited to attend and typically comprise 50% or more of the class. This allows children to learn the routines, transitions, and general activates and rules that are common to most all preschools. Practicing these prior to attending preschool in the community increases the child’s chances of a successful preschool experience. The social skills emphasized in preschool (such as listening, waiting, sharing and turn taking with adult supervision, self control, and beginning conversation,) are a strong component of the mock preschool.During the summer, children who are preparing for kindergarten, or first grade, are able to attend a mock or "practice" kinder/1st grade class. This runs in a similar fashion to the mock preschool. Skills needed for Kindergarten and first grade and taught and practiced over the summer. A strong emphasis is also placed on learning and practicing and expanding on the social skills mentioned above.
Our parents/caregivers play a crucial role in their child’s programming and treatment. Transferring progress in a clinical setting to a functional real life setting is our goal. In order to make this occur, we have a variety of ways parents/caregivers can becomes involved and learn.
Monthly Topic Specific Workshops
On a monthly basis one of our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) holds a topic based 1-2 hour workshop at our center in Modesto. These 1-2 hour workshops are held in the evening and childcare is provided by trained behavioral therapists. Parents/caregivers and families of clients receiving any of our comprehensive services are welcome to attend for free. Topics vary form month to month and some more popular topics are repeated more than once a year as requested. Preparation for these presentations always involves a review of current research and is founded in basic applied behavioral principles. The information is however presented to parents and caregivers in a very user-friendly format with the use of limited professional terminology that might overwhelm parents and caregivers. Positive behavioral strategies that are developmentally appropriate are presented.
Topics
Monthly Comprehensive Parent Training Workshop
Our “Hands on Behavioral Parent Training Workshop” is an eight-hour course (also offered monthly) that demonstrates basic behavior analytic strategies and how to apply those strategies at home and in the community. This class is user-friendly and a variety of real life examples across behaviors and ages are shown through videos and vignettes. Parents/caregivers actively participate as the instructor continually presents ASR’s (Active Student Responding activities) where parents are asked to problem solve and demonstrate their understanding of the information throughout the class.
Generalization
It is crucial that parents participate on some level in treatment so that skills can generalize and maintain over time. Typically the parent/caregiver is briefed weekly and is asked on a weekly basis to participate in what we refers to as “Phase 3” where we begin to generalize the current skills being taught. Target skills are generalized systematically so that the child can utilize the skill regardless of the how it is presented (Phase 2) or the environment, or who presents it (Phase 3). Parents/caregivers play a key role in assisting therapists transfer skills in the final phase of skill acquisition (Phase 3).
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