Skill Development

Following your child’s evaluation, the Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) will construct a curriculum that systematically addresses all areas of development. The skills in each program will build upon prior-mastered skills.

Target areas may include:

    • Imitation

      • Imitation is the foundation for learning. Children learn how to talk, play, and participate in a classroom setting by copying others.

    • Requesting/Asking for things

      • The beginning of self-advocacy!

    • Joint attention

      • Attending to and responding to other individuals in the environment

    • Matching/Visual perceptual skills

      • Picture-object correspondence

      • Patterning

      • Sequencing

    • Receptive language

      • Following instructions

      • Expanding vocabulary

    • Expressive language

      • Producing sounds

      • Producing words

      • Expanding sentence length

    • Following simple instructions

    • Play

      • Independent play skills

      • Group play skills

    • Conversation

      • Answering questions about personal information

      • Reciprocal conversation

    • Descriptive vocabulary

      • Identify ways to categorize things: by functions, features, or attributes

    • Answering and asking “Wh” questions

    • Emotions

      • Recognizing emotions in yourself and others

    • Sequencing events

    • Pre-academic skills

      • Math concepts, Reading, and Writing

      • Working in a structured setting

      • Following multi-step directions

    • Initiating and sustaining conversation

    • Playing with peers

      • Cooperative play

      • Finding shared interests

    • Following auditory directions

    • Making inferences

      • Using contextual cues to come to a logical conclusion

    • Predicting outcomes

      • Using observations and logical reasoning to estimate what will happen in the future

    • Recalling events

    • Comprehension

      • Applying “wh” questions to scenarios or stories

    • Navigating difficult situations

    • Safety 

      • Self-advocacy

      • Home safety: handling emergencies, calling 911, etc.

      • Community safety: crossing the street, sharing personal information, stranger danger, etc.

      • School safety: reporting bullying, identifying coersion, etc.

      • Body Safety: consent, identifying and reporting inappropriate touch, etc.

    • Daily living skills

      • Transitions

      • Personal hygiene

      • Toileting

      • Feeding

      • Sleep training

      • Dressing

      • Tolerating hair cuts and doctor appointments

      • Tolerating non-preferred sounds, textures, and other stimuli

      • Cleaning up

    • Independence

      • At home: chores, laundry, preparing food, etc.

      • Navigating the community: grocery shopping, public transportation, etc.

    • Pragmatic language

      • Knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it

    • Perspective-taking

    • Problem solving

    • Reading non-verbal cues

    • Navigating relationships

    • Think it or say it?

    • Interrupting

    • Peer interactions

    • Observation learning

Your child's ABA curriculum will support their learning through all areas of development.
Your child's ABA curriculum will support their learning through all areas of development.