Support Options
ABA Enhancement (ABAE) has tailored services to meet your needs. We specialize in and work with social skills, parent consultation/training, sibling interaction groups, school consults, and in-home/community one-to-one therapy. We focus on the person first and work within the client’s needs to enhance their overall quality of life.
Telehealth
Upon request, we offer telehealth as an option to provide one-to-one direct services to minimize COVID-19 exposure. Most of our supervision and clinical oversight is done remotely. This enables ABAE to broaden our support to reach children and families who live further away from us.
In-Clinic Support
We provide sessions in our Fountain Valley clinic to support children who need a more structured environment and to obtain stimulus control prior to stabilizing behaviors and transitioning control to their home environment.
In School Support
ABA Enhancement provides support to schools, teachers, and students by providing training and fading plans for children to be successful in their academic setting.
Parent/Caregiver/Family Consultations, Training & Support
Meet with our BCBA or Clinical Supervisors to develop a strong parent consultation program to target your loved one’s behaviors or areas of support. ABAE will develop a personalized program to fit your needs as a family, address areas of growth and provide a detailed plan of action to achieve these goals.
Adolescent Services
Our adolescent program is individualized for each family on an independent basis. We target programming including, communication, adaptive skills, self-management, and addressing any target behaviors. In addition to the individual programming, ABAE offers adolescent/teen and adult social skills groups to promote social skills in the natural environment.
Adult Services
Using research-based ABA strategies, ABAE provides increased opportunities for our ABAE adult clients. Our goal is to enhance their quality of life, overall independence, and skill set.
Socialization
Utilizing research-based methodologies, ABA Enhancement (ABAE) has many groups depending age and developmental levels to meet the client’s needs. ABAE works on all aspects of socialization from greetings to interacting within a group of peers and understanding diversity of friendships.
ABAE offers social skills groups for children and teens ages three to 16. Utilizing ABA research-based social skills, our training and programming facilitates social skills that have a lasting impact on current and future relationships.
In-Home and Community Therapy
One-to-one support in the home and community developing and implementing programs and behavior intervention plans supervised by a master’s level clinician and overseen by a board certified behavior analysts (BCBA). Training, guidance, and programming on how to make day-to-day community outings a positive experience for the whole family.
Social Skills Group
Our social skills group utilizes evidenced-based practices to build skill repertoires needed for an individual to create meaningful interactions with the people around them, make and maintain friendships, and feel confident to pursue any social situation that might come their way.
Rudy's Place
Provides a safe and interactive setting for clinic-based sessions for ABAE clients who are one to eight years of age and who have been touched by autism and other neurodiversities. Rudy's Place features an indoor playground, imaginative playrooms, art, sensory, and calm rooms as well as several other learning spaces.
Sibling Relationship Building
Sibling interaction goals and training workshops to foster positive and meaningful sibling relationships.
Healthy Living
Training and programming to promote healthy living (for example, food tolerating programs and helping to find what type of exercise will keep your child in motion, etc.)
School Readiness
Programming to get your child ready for a school setting.
Speech and Language Services
The Speech and Language Department at ABA Enhancement (ABAE) promotes interdisciplinary collaboration through, neurodiversity-affirming care, strength-based intervention, and total communication approaches. All people have a right to communication, and it is the aspiration of this department to support communication skills in whatever way is best for each client.
Areas of treatment
We provide intervention in AAC implementation, expressive/receptive language disorders, social communication differences, childhood apraxia of speech, articulation disorders, phonological disorders, stuttering/fluency disorders, and voice disorders.
Caregiver/Family Training
Clients spend most of their time with family, and the family is the expert on the client. The SLP team will provide you with strategies and activities to continue outside of therapy sessions. We want to empower caregivers to support communication skills for the ultimate success of each client.
Client-Led Therapy Sessions
Research shows that speech and language skills develop at a quicker rate when individuals are regulated and engaged in play. Sessions are built to provide opportunities for communication while also allowing for the client’s autonomy and needs to be met.
“I appreciate so many things, but mostly how kind the ABAE team is to my son and that they teach in ways that are affectionate and kind.”
– ABAE Parent
