Provides a highly structured and individualized treatment plan and therapies to address the uniqueness of children's needs. 
Therapy focuses on identifying the function of the a behavior, combined with examining the environment to develop a plan for behavior modification. 
Staff includes a Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Speech Therapist, Physical Therapist, and a certified Teacher.

Autism Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy (ABA) offered at Children's Developmental Center

Provides a highly structured and individualized treatment plan and therapies to address the uniqueness of children's needs.

Programs that specialize in providing therapeutic interventions that utilize classical and operant conditioning techniques including positive and negative reinforcement, systematic desensitization, covert sensitization, relaxation training and aversion techniques to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior.

Behavior Modification

Programs that specialize in providing therapeutic interventions that are based on the theory developed primarily by Alfred Bandura that the development, maintenance and modification of behavior can be explained in terms of operant and classical conditioning in combination with cognitive mediational processes including vicarious learning.  Therapy techniques to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior include role modeling, role playing and behavioral rehearsal.

Social Learning

Programs that offer any of a variety of therapeutic interventions, which may be used singly or in combination, to address the range of social, language, sensory and behavioral difficulties experienced by children and adults with autism and related disorders. Because of the spectrum nature of autism and the many behavior combinations that can occur, treatment approaches must be tailored to meet the individual needs of each person. Included are behavioral and communication development approaches, specialized curricula and sensory integration; biomedical and dietary treatments including psychiatric medications, vitamins and minerals (such as Vitamin B6, magnesium and essential fatty acids), treatment using the hormone secretin and special diets; and various complementary therapies such as music, art or equestrian, speech, physical or occupational which may be used on an individual basis or integrated into an educational program.

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Autism Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy (ABA) offered at Children's Developmental Center