EIBi

EIBI stands for “Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention.” EIBI usually applies to learners between the ages of 2-5 years old. This type of early intervention is designed to provide children with developmental skills in the most pliable stage in a child’s life. The goal is to establish a strong foundation that will make learning more complex skills later easier and set the foundation for continued success.

EIBI targets skill development across the social, behavioral, adapted, and communication domains while providing a highly structured environment that minimizes challenging behaviors by providing functional communication training and replacement skills. Skills are taught one on one in the home and community environment.

Parent trainings are essential for success amongst our learners. At New Mind we believe that learning should be customized to each learner and incorporate movement.

Comprehensive

Comprehensive programs are well suited for children with autism who will benefit from intensive intervention to successfully navigate their environment and to learn new skills. This can range from ages 5-18+. Comprehensive programs also emphasize parent and caregiver training to give parents and caregivers skills to use during other times when a therapist is not present. Comprehensive ABA targets skill development across a wide array of domains including behavioral, adapted, daily living, and communication.

Comprehensive ABA also includes creation and implementation of a plan that is designed to minimize challenging behavior and build on functional skills and replacement behaviors. Comprehensive Therapy is delivered one on one by a behavior therapist who is supervised by a BCBA in the home or community setting. 

Focused

Focused therapy can be ideal in situations barriers associated with autism are not a constant issue, but there are one or two areas that require targeted intervention. Focused ABA is not as time intensive. The direct therapy time will be dramatically reduced, by half or even more, to around ten to fifteen hours per week. However, this is meant to be adjustable and individualized based on the learner’s needs.

Supervision in a focused program focuses on the highest need areas for parent training to enhance home outcomes, while still providing rigorous oversight of the direct therapy.

Home BASED

Home-based ABA Therapy directly addresses needs most prevalent in the home, including morning and evening routines, sleep training, toilette training, mealtime routines, and transitions to and from the home. Home based therapy is an ideal place for therapy because the learner is in the natural setting of their environment and will learn skills that are applicable to every-day life. Home-based therapy can look like one-to-one instructional programs in designated areas of the home, especially for younger children who are building school readiness skills. But it also likely that home-based programming is fully embedded within home routines, with the therapist providing naturalistic prompting and skill facilitation in the moment.

School

School-based ABA is intended to increase access and participation of the child within their academic learning environment. School-based ABA can focus more on academic skills as well as social, behavioral, adaptive, motor, and communication skills. The BCBA assigned will collaborate with the learner’s academic administrators to create treatment plan based on behavioral goals that will optimize learning in the school environment. BCBA’s can also attend and consult with teachers and school staff in the creation of IEP’s when necessary.

Community

Community-based ABA therapy often focuses on safety and social skills within the community. For example, an entire therapy session may be spent learning skills for community safety such as safely crossing the street and the applying it while on a walk in the neighborhood. The learner and therapist may go to recreational or social activities such as community events or public areas such as the grocery store. Community-based ABA not only utilizes the natural environment to teach new skills but also ensures that skills learned at home can also generalize in the real world. 

PARENT TRAINING

At New Mind we recognize that the transformation of a child begins with the transformation of parents. We believe that parent training is the key to treatment effectiveness and consistent parent trainings are essential to your child’s ability to generalize their skills.  Our unique parent training curriculum will meet you where you are in your parenting journey and help guide you in making meaningful change in the lives of your children. Our dedicated team will assist in conducting regular parent training sessions to ensure that parents expand their own toolbox to assist in creating and maintaining meaningful change in the everyday life of their children. 

At New Mind parent training and participation in treatment is not only encouraged but it is required, we believe that parent involvement in treatment is the key to unlocking our learner’s full potential but it also brings clarity and collaboration to our parents and therapists. 

Exercise Therapy

A study from Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology states that 79 percent of autistic children have movement impairments, which has the potential to worsen with an inactive lifestyle. Physical activity may not only decrease negative behaviors but can increase mood, improve coping skills, and enhance overall quality of life.

Using our team’s knowledge of exercise science and behavioral therapy, we combine ABA therapeutic practices and exercise movement to meet our clients individualized behavioral goals. Studies have shown that physical activity has positive social and behavioral effects for individuals on the autism spectrum. We believe that learning should be creative fun and effective. We value mind body connections and the incorporation of movement and exercise throughout the learning process.