At ABC we are currently serving clients in the following areas: Vancouver Richmond Burnaby New Westminster Delta Surrey Langley    Click on the links below to learn more about our services:  1. Early Intervention Program: Ages 2-7 years 2. School-age Program (age 7-12 years) 3. Functional Assessments 4. BI Training Workshops  5. Workshops & Training:  Provided World-Wide 6. Two-day Intensive ABA/VB Training Camp 7. Distance Programming 8. On-line Consultation via Skype

• ABLLS-R or BLA (Behavioral Language Assessment)
• Functional Assessment
• Individualized ABA programming based on the ABLLS-R and BLA
• Program binder created specifically for your child
• ABA & verbal behavior training for family and interventionists
• Monthly team meetings to review progress
• Written report for the Ministry (if you have funding from the BC government)
• Program Manager that will provide ongoing training and management of your program
• All programming based on ABA and Best Practices for children with autism
• New programs as your child masters their current program
• Re-assessment every 6-8 months
• Skill Tracking Graph after every assessment so that you have a visual representation of your child's progress
• Liason with child's school in order to integrate the home and school programming
  
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School-age Program (age 7-12 years):  Includes: 

• Assessment using the ABLLS-R
• Functional Assessment
• Individualized ABA programming based on the ABLLS-R
• ABA and autism training for family and the interventionist or child care worker
• Re-assessment every year
• Skill Tracking Graph upon every ABLLS-R assessment for a visual representation of your child's progress
• Specialized social skills training consisting of:  social stories, social guidelines, natural environment training
• Bi-monthly team meetings
• Program Manager to provide ongoing training and to manage your child's program
• Written goals for the Ministry (for families with funding provided by the BC government)
• All programs based on ABA and Best Practices
• Liason with your child's school
  
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Functional Assessments:

• You can hire our BCBA to come and complete a functional assessment for any problem behaviors your child engages in
• This includes:
• Several observation periods in various environments in which your child engages in (and a couple where your child does not engage in) the problem behavior (observations range in time from 2 - 4 hours each)
• A functional assessment interview (FAST)
• A brief report outlining the function of the behaviors, competing behaviors to teach, and behavior protocols to implement
• One of our Program Managers will come train you in the behavior protocols and how to implement them with your child
  
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• Workshops and training offered for one-day; two-day & three-day sessions
• Training provided on the following topics:

• Our one-day workshops:
• Basics of Autism 101 - How do I teach these kids?
• Basic understanding of behavior: using brief functional analysis 
• Using ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) to teach, which includes:
• Reinforcement
• Using motivation to teach:  establishing operations
• Instructional Control

• Our two-day workshops include:
• Autism 101: how do I teach these kids?
• Using ABA to teach
• A brief background of ABA
• Reinforcement
• Using motivation to teach: establishing operations
• Instructional control
• Functional assessment
• ABC data (Anecdotal data)
• Three-term contingency
• Verbal Behavior Workshops which include:
• Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior (basic) 
• Manding
• Teaching the Tact and Intraverbals
• Errorless Learning
• Prompting & Fading
• Mastery
• Data: How to take and track data

• Our Three-day workshop includes: 
• Autism 101: how do I teach these kids?
• Using ABA to teach
• A brief background of ABA
• Reinforcement
• Using motivation to teach: establishing operations
• Instructional control
• Functional assessment
• ABC data (Anecdotal data)
• Three-term contingency
• Verbal Behavior Workshops which include:
• Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior (basic) 
• Manding
• Teaching the Tact and Intraverbals
• Errorless Learning
• Prompting & Fading
• Mastery
• Data: How to take and track data 
• Program: How to set up and run a successful early intervention home program
• Role-play: Practicing ABA/verbal behavior techniques
  
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You can have ABC come to your city to provide a two-day intensive TRAINING CAMP for ABA and VB

• This training camp focuses on specific and intense learning in the areas of applied behavior analysis and verbal behavior
• It delves deep into the background of ABA, Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior, and creating ABA & VB programs
• Uses many role play scenarios -- uses active learning to teach these important skills
• Directly teaches building motivation; using behavioral momentum; and effective use of reinforcement
• Direct means active participation -- hands on -- come and be ready to work!
• Participants are required to bring their own BAG of TRICKS (reinforcers) for use during this training session
• ABC will also provide some yummy reinforcer treats to build motivation during training camp
  
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On-line Consultation via Skype:

• You can contact our BCBA to have an on-line consultation using Skype
• If you have questions you would like to have answered regarding your child's behavior or your verbal behavior program - you can set up an on-line consultation with Michele Anderson through Skype
• Michele will offer one hour or two hour consultations at her hourly fee (contact us for hourly fees)
• Contact us through email at:  michele@andersonbehaviorconsulting.com to set up an appointment

To hire ABC to perform one of our workshops in your area - please use our "contact us" page and include in your message: interest in ABC workshop in our area.  Also, please tell us where you are located and the potential dates that you are looking at for this workshop to take place!

Thank you, ABC Inc.