Our Philosophy
Autism & Aspergers Consulting utilizes an integrated solutions approach to design individualized in-home treatment programs for children with Autism PDD-NOS & Aspergers.

Autism & Aspergers Consulting’s Curriculum

Every ABA program needs a curriculum to determine what to teach each student. The curriculum should be all encompassing and prepare the student for school & life as best as possible.  Additionally although we have stated that the Lovaas curriculum is the only entire curriculum validated through research, portions of differing curriculum have also been shown to be effective for specific problems, they have just not been combined together into a comprehensive curriculum to produce recovery.  Therefore we believe in using all methods that have been validated in the field of psychology.   It is also interesting to note that even though Lovaas used behavioral methodologies to teach language, a psycholinguistic approach to organizing teaching was used rather than a behavioral view.

Autism & Aspergers Consulting also believes that a curriculum should follow as closely as possible to children’s developmental with a few notable exceptions.

Some basic concepts, which are innate in typically developing children, require higher-level language and conceptualization in order to be explained and taught to children with special needs.  Therefore some precociousness is encouraged so that the children are able to learn these skills.

When are children are ready for inclusion into a normal classroom being of above average academic skills can serve to be beneficial for two reasons:

The children can be seen as very smart and relied upon by other children for information, this also serves as a way for our children to socialize in which they are often more comfortable.

The children can focus more of their energy on socialization rather than learning academics.  This is often one of the most difficult things for children who are close to recovery to do.

In the first months of therapy it is important through the use of behavioral techniques to teach the child to understand ten basic principles. A program, which fails to teach these basic principles, cannot produce recovery.

1. To remain sitting during learning
2. To attend to the instructor
3. To respond to the instructor
4.To change their response based upon prompting
5.To understand the connection between responses and reinforcement
6.To change ones response based upon feedback
7.Not to play with materials during instruction
8. When to respond receptively vs. expressively
9. To stay on task for gradually longer periods of time
10. To remain compliant during difficult tasks or situations