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Supervision: |
| Supervision involves setting up and maintaining individual behavioral therapy programs. Supervision hours will vary, depending on the needs and progress of each child. |
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Senior Therapy:
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Behavioral therapists with over
3 years experience are available to lead teams
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Behavioral therapists with at
minimum of 30 hours of training are available to
staff cases. All staff are trained in Lovaas
ABA, Verbal Behavior ABA, PECS, Fluency-based
Instruction and Augmentative Communication
Systems in addition to a variety of play and
social facilitation skills. |
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Consultation/Training:
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may hire ASC to train discrete trial therapists
for behavioral programs. Training can include
basic discrete trial therapy, information on
autism and special topics related to school
programs. Program evaluations are also
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Circle of Friends Social Skills Group:
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Friends" Social Skill Groups have a 2:5 ratio of facilitators
to children with a focus on play skills and
Theory of Mind. This service is geared towards
children in 1st to 5th grade with High
Functioning Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. If you are interested in
finding out more about this service, please
contact ( dawn at autismconsultants.com )or call the San Diego office at 858.272.2662.
In Orange County please contact (jacob at
autismconsultants.com) or call
949.474.5577 |
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| For those clients who are out of the local Southern California service area, workshops can be arranged. For more detailed information on our workshops and to download a detailed Parent Intake
Questionnaire please click here.
If interested, please contact Dawn
858.272.2662. |
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Teenage Boys Detective Club: |
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A group run by young men, for young men! TBDC
is a social ACTIVITY club, where we meet out in
the community and do fun, teenage stuff as a
group, and practice figuring out the unwritten
rules of friendship and daily life.
Concurrently, the parents meet with a clinical
supervisor, to discuss issues related to
teenagers on the spectrum. For more information,
please contact Dawn Holman at 858.272.2662 in
San Diego or Cindy Underwood at 949.474.5577 in
Orange County
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| Once a program is initiated, a typical program will include the following |
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| A major program goal is to reduce inappropriate behaviors such as aggression and self-stimulation while simultaneously teaching more adaptive, age appropriate replacement skills such as attending and compliance. As children acquire more skills, behaviors are generally reduced. |
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| Language: |
| An integral part of any ABA program, language skills ranging from functional communication to pragmatic social language are taught and then generalized. This part of the program is usually heavily emphasized, especially at the onset of treatment. |
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| Play Skills: |
| ASC teaches everything from simple imitative play to more abstract dramatic, interactive play in order for children to learn essential skills that can be used to replace inappropriate behaviors, and as a way to socialize with others. |
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| Socialization: |
| Once play skills are learned, socialization with age appropriate peers is taught, beginning with play dates and moving into community and everyday settings |
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| Theory of Mind: |
| Thought to be an autism-specific deficit, Theory of mind involves impairments in perspective taking abilities, and its social consequences. Especially important for school aged children, and those in inclusive settings, teaching children with autism to understand and interpret others actions, thoughts and feelings is a difficult but essential part of treatment at the later stages of therapy. |
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| Motor: |
| Both gross and fine motor skills are taught in order to promote self-help and school readiness, including drawing & writing, and large motor movements required to ride bikes, play sports, etc. |
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| Self-Help: |
| Functional, age appropriate self- help skills are systematically taught, ranging from dressing to toileting skills and behaviors |
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| Once skills from all of the above areas are taught, they need to be generalized across people and environments |
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Cognition/Executive Functioning: |
| Teaching flexibility and self
regulation skills crucial for mainstream
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For families beginning ABA programs, an initial training day will usually begin the workshop. This day may be shared with other families, and consists of an overview of Autism, ABA, how to do Discrete Trial Therapy, and behavior management. All family members, student therapists and any other relevant professionals who will be working with the child are encouraged to attend. New student therapists must attend this day in order to work with the child.
Initial training can be divided into 2 days, or may be done in one day. For workshops being conducted for more than one family, it is highly recommended that this training be conducted over two days.
Following the training, an additional day (6 hours) will be devoted to implementing the drills set up for the individual child.
The Initial Workshop will be conducted by one of the Clinical Directors, and a Case Supervisor, who will resume responsibility as the consultant following the workshop.
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| After the initial workshop, your consultant will set up a schedule for phone conferences, video reviews, drill report reviews, etc. so that you have as much contact as necessary to maintain your program. Follow-up workshops are done on an "as-needed" basis, and can range in frequency from one to three months. |
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| A detailed Parent Intake
Questionnaire is provided for those who are ready to begin services. This document is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file and REQUIRES the Acrobat Reader to view and print. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader
5.0 or greater click here first to get it, before downloading the
questionnaire. Follow the instructions to install the application.
I have Adobe Acrobat Reader
and ready to
download the
questionnaire.
It is possible to download the file if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, but even when you have it on your computer you will not be able to view or print it without the reader.
To download the file for Windows right mouse click on the link, in the pop-up menu select "Save target as or Save link as" for Mac, click and hold the mouse button down, in the pop up select "save target as or save link as".
You still need Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 to view and print the document. If the reader and plug in are installed all you have to do is click on the link and it will automatically download the document and launch the reader. |
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