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Early Intervention
Intensive home-to-school training programs can produce
comprehensive and durable improvements in important skill areas for
most young children with autism. Anova is committed to optimal
effectiveness in its early intervention services by providing the level
of support necessary to assure success for both child and family.
Development of the Service Plan is completed by a qualified Behavior
Analyst in collaboration with the child’s parents and the child’s
support team of other relevant professionals. Targeted skills may
include self-help skills, communication needs, pre-academic skills,
and fine and gross motor competence, including a functional analysis
of targeted problem behaviors with detailed service recommendations.
Anova’s Behavior Analysts are uniquely qualified to provide the coordination of Applied Behavior Analysis and family support. This coordination of services is ideally suited to families with recently diagnosed children to assist the family in understanding, and effectively addressing, the special needs of their child.
A well-trained and caring Program Tutor provides direct
instruction to the child. Program Tutors utilize teaching techniques
that may include intensive direct instruction on specific skills and
the opportunity for repetition of trials and incidental teaching
strategies utilized while involved in play, self-care, community trips,
or other routine activities. Program Tutors work under the supervision
of a Behavior Analyst with extensive training in all aspects of program
design. The Behavior Analyst provides the child’s parents with
instruction on implementing their child’s skill training programs as
the Program Tutor and Behavior Analyst model teaching strategies and
behavior interventions for the parents. As parents become fluent in the
training techniques, a fading plan for the Program Tutor and Behavior
Analyst will be implemented to reduce the family’s need for continued
intensive support.
For more information, please call (707) 527-7032.
