ABA Therapy provides direct 1:1 therapy with experienced therapists. Florida ABA Therapy, LLC targets skill acquisition while reducing problematic behavior to improve overall quality of life. ABA Therapy provides services at the following locations: Gulf Breeze, Navarre, and Fort Walton Beach
We also offer intensive one-on-one parent training. This consists of basic principles and techniques of ABA specific to your child’s current needs to increase your child’s independence, daily living skills, and communication. We coach you through behavior problems, help you maintain consistency, help you learn strategies to improve compliance and following directions, deal with behavior, and help provide appropriate consequences.
* This service is an integral part of therapy and it is critical that you participate.
Strategies are used to increase appropriate communication. Strategies include:
Through our parent training program, we assist in teaching your child day-to-day self-help skills; for example, dressing, eating, grooming, household chores, etc.
We help teach tolerance to a variety of different foods and textures which the child has either began to recently refuse (food compliance) or the child has always refused to eat (food acceptance).
ABA therapy helps establish healthy nighttime routines.
Teaching important social skills and considerations to assist in daily interactions with others.
Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA) is an attempt to look beyond the obvious interpretation of behavior as “bad” and determine what function it may be serving for a child. Truly understanding why a child behaves the way he or she does is the first, best step to developing strategies to stop the behavior.
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) takes the observations made in an FBA and turns them into a concrete plan of action for managing a child’s behavior. A BIP may include ways to change the environment to keep behavior from starting in the first place, provide positive reinforcement to promote good behavior, employ planned ignoring to avoid reinforcing bad behavior and provide supports needed.
Florida ABA Therapy utilizes evidence-based curriculum assessments including PEAK Relational Training, Essentials for Living (EFL), Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP), the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS), the Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS), PEERS, Socially Savvy, and other developmental checklists. We use these assessments to guide program development rather than diagnose. Programs are also individualized to meet the specific needs of each child.