Even the most attentive and caring parents may not understand how to reduce challenging behaviors in their children. Disruptive and maladaptive behaviors such as tantrums, hitting, and self-injury impede learning, affect family relationships, and slow social development. If your child is communicating in inappropriate ways or if you are worried about unusual behaviors, we can help. After working to identify the environmental factors relating to the behaviors of concern, a plan is carefully designed to both reduce the challenging behaviors and to teach important replacement skills.
We support whole family approaches to intervention and strongly encourage parent collaboration and participation. Ongoing parent education is an important component of family support, and the techniques that we teach are easily applied to benefit all children in a family. Our consultants explain and model the procedures while striving to motivate parents. We help all of the adults who support our client to effectively intervene and teach across community, home, and social settings. If you are overwhelmed or just at the end of your rope, call us.
Behavior Reduction Programs such as:
- Self-Injury
- Aggression and Threatening Language
- Potty Accidents
- Night Waking
- Non-Compliance
- Tantrums
- Destruction
- Stereotypy
- Finicky Eating
- Mouthing or eating objects
- Other maladaptive or disruptive behaviors
Skill Acquisition Programs such as:
- Functional Communication
- Vocal Language
- Social Skills
- Play Skills
- Accepting "No"
- Transitioning
- Following Directions
- Learning Readiness
- Academics
- Daily Living Skills
- Waiting
- Accessing Help
- Developmentally appropriate skills as identified by assessment
Our programs are designed to maximize your child's natural motivations, and we focus on non-aversive behavioral strategies and supports. Most importantly, we teach you how to understand the principles behind the plans so that you feel empowered to make changes in the future.
