Errorless learning procedures to promote rapid acquisition and retention of skills

Functional language taught early

Individualized curriculum and treatment plans

• developmentally appropriate

• reflect each child's areas of need as well as strengths

• incorporate the body of current empirically-validated practices by researchers in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe

• full integration of Applied Behavior Analysis with techniques from Speech and Language Therapy
  

Establishing interactions with people as reinforcing

• programs selected and developed in which the child must interact to "keep the reinforcers coming"

• peer interactions introduced early during treatment
  

Generalization of skills programmed simultaneously with learning "in the chair"

Self-management procedures including the use of photographic activity schedules and self-reinforcement systems to create independence and promote generalization

Effective use of "downtime" to create incidental language opportunities and expand play and social skills

Data-based decision making

Strong presence of the Clinical Team in the home and other treatment sites

Training of Parents and other family members to promote generalization of the child's behavioral changes, use of language and newly acquired adaptive skills. When parents and other family members act in concert this contributes not only to the child's rate of progress but to the well being of the whole family

Program Directors are a Speech and Language Pathologist and a Licensed Psychologist with expertise in Applied Behavior Analysis and experience with children with pervasive developmental disorders