At Children’s Autism Center, we work closely with each child, family, and staff member to provide the highest level of service. Our one-to-one therapy service addresses areas such as:

  • Communication and language development
  • Imitation skills
  • Play and leisure skills
  • Adaptive skills (toilet training, self-dressing, teeth brushing etc)
  • Feeding and food aversion/desensitization
  • Social skills and school readiness

Additional to these skills, we work on decreasing socially inappropriate behaviors or maladaptive behaviors (aggression, motor stereotypy, elopement, self-injurious behaviors etc) and teaching replacement behaviors (communication skills, accepting no, waiting etc). Through functional assessments and analysis, an individualized behavior plan is created and implemented for each child. This behavior intervention plan is also shared with families to generalize skills into the home.

Here are Some of Our Frequently Asked Questions:

What is ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis?

ABA uses the three-term contingency to analyze behavior—ABC. The Acronym ABC stands for antecedent, behavior, and consequence. The antecedent is what comes before the unwanted behavior. The behavior or response itself follows. And finally, the consequence of what happens, positive or negative, comes after that.

The exact number of therapy hours are determined on an individual basis and based on medial and developmental needs. Research consistently has shown that ABA works “best” through intensive early intervention and thus resulting in a 20-35 hour program.

CAC is in-network with most insurance companies and ensures out therapies are covered by out client’s policy. For more information regarding out in-network, out of network and private pay options contact us at 512-733-2800.

State laws allow school absences for healthcare appointments, including ongoing ABA therapy. We can provide written documentation to schools when our clients are absent due to receiving therapy at out center.

When working on skills, programming is created for social skills to be worked on with age-appropriate peers based on developmentally level. This is to ensure the skills which are targeted are ones which are considered Barriers for your child and peer models chosen are beneficial.

Depending on the number of therapy hours your child receives, each therapy block is 2 hours long with a different therapist (ie 8-10, 10-12 etc) for each block. This is done to make sure the child is generalizing all learned skills with a variety of adults throughout the day. Programming is done across communication, adaptive, social and behavioral domains. All sessions are done in 1:1 format with the RBT/behavior therapist collecting data on programs either electronically or manually (paper/pen data). Examples of skills worked on can include- requesting for items, sitting in group for lunch, handwashing, transitioning between activities, tolerating peers in close proximity, waiting for items etc. If you child receives Speech through CAC, then the session would be built into their therapy hours. Supervision is done by the BCBA throughout the day/week to ensure progress is being made and program is ran with fidelity. Parent training is done on a weekly/bi-weekly basis depending on availability and can occur in the clinic or home setting.

  • What does your staff training look like and how often do they receive training or continuing education?
  • What does parent involvement in ABA sessions look like? How often does parent training occur? What does that look like if siblings are involved or multi-households (grand parents, other caregivers, separate homes)
  • How often will my child’s goals and programs be updated and this information shared with us?
  • How do you evaluate what skills are appropriate for my child?
  • How will services help my child transition into a school setting?
  • How do you ensure skills are generalized across people and settings?
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