What Applied Behavior Consultants, Inc. Offers Their Communities

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Applied Behavior Consultants, Inc. better know as ABC, created schools and facilities that are for children, aged 3 to 18, and have been given the diagnosis of Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ABC schools are Non-Public Schools (NPS), or Non-Public Agencies (NPA) and the type of services preformed in their clinical practices and educational development services are based on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
ABC uses Intensive Behavioral Treatment (IBT) within a language-based ABA setting. Initially the individual IBT is highly structured, but as the child progresses the teaching environment becomes less structured. Each child’s individualized curriculum or IBT includes:
Critical language skills
Functional Activities
Socialization
Initiation and spontaneity
Generalization of mastered concepts and skills
The individual curriculum or IBT is formulated to meet the specific needs of each child while utilizing the child’s individual learning style, with the goal of reintegrating the child into his or her neighborhood school.
In order to make sure a quality education is received within a safe environment, the classrooms have numerous individuals that work with the children. First, there is the credentialed teacher, secondly, a lead behavior technician with several other behavior technicians working under the lead’s supervision, and the supervision of the Senior Behavior Analyst or Supervising Behavior Analyst (SBA).
During my visit to the ABC facility in Stockton, California, I met with a Senior Behavioral Consultant* (SBC), and inquired about the type of services this particular facility provided. The Stockton ABC facility is an NPA, not a school, so the requirement of a credentialed teacher does not apply to this f...

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... receive 1:1 instruction until the teacher determines when and under what conditions the student will benefit from group instruction”, (Applied/Services, 2013).
Having visited the ABC facility in Stockton, read their pamphlets and visited their website, I would refer parents with Autistic children to their facilities. Though the need for insurance to cover the cost of this specialized care, would seem to limit, in general, the availability of providing needed care to the more impoverished members of the local area. Sadly, this limitation feels like an injustice.

*The ABC Senior Consultant wished to be unnamed.

Bibliography
Applied Behavior Consultants. Main. 2013. http://www.appliedbehaviorconsultants.com/main_about.php. (11/25/2013)

Applied Behavior Consultants. Services. 2013. http://www.appliedbehaviorconsultants.com/services_3.php. (11/25/2013)

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