Offering a Variety of Behavior Services

Our Early Intervention Day Program provides intensive ABA services to children (ages 0-5) within a comprehensive program. It is a 12-week program that uses evidence-based practices to help build functional communication, social, and adaptive skills. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) develops and oversees the individualized treatment for each child and conducts regularly scheduled parent/caregiver trainings. All staff are trained in evidence-based interventions, as well as in crisis management.

Intensive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services are implemented to reduce challenging behavior, teach functional skills, and increase independence. Service recommendations are based on a comprehensive intake assessment. ABA services include intensive 1:1 therapy sessions and caregiver training.

Caregiver training is designed for parents, families, and relevant caregivers of individuals with developmental disabilities. Group caregiver training sessions, as well as individual family sessions, are offered.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn strategies to make and keep friends while putting these strategies into real-life practice with other attendees. Various games and activities are planned for attendees to maintain their engagement while providing opportunities to interact with peers.

Safety-Care® Crisis Management training will be provided to families who are interested in learning how to de-escalate maladaptive behaviors or to respond once maladaptive behaviors begin to occur. This includes strategies to prevent serious maladaptive behaviors, such as aggression, as well as respond to serious maladaptive behaviors, such as blocking aggression or transporting their child to a safe place. Safety-Care® curriculum is taught by a certified instructor. Bi-monthly follow ups are required for families wishing to maintain Safety-Care® certification.

Training package includes 8-hour initial training and two 1-hour in-home follow-up appointments.

DSC will provide a licensed clinician to support staff and caregivers to more effectively support individuals that they care for.  Caregivers can learn functions of behavior, how to decrease target behaviors, how to increase skills, and how to reinforce prosocial behaviors.  Caregivers can also receive crisis management training within this service.

DSC provides people with training on client identified life skills that improves the client’s ability to integrate in and be more successful and confident in their community.  After identifying 1 – 3 skills that the individual wants to learn, a therapist works with the individual for 1 to 4 hours per week to build these skills, then generalize them into relevant settings.

DSC provides highly trained staff to provide physical assistance, support and protective supervision to the client in daily routine activities and to prevent injury to themselves and to others while the clients family receives relief from these duties. Staff will ensure that the client is able to participate in daily activities and community activities safely to ensure client protection and promotion of the client’s health and welfare. Activities available during respite include social and leisure opportunities adaptive skill practice, and community involvement and participation all using evidence based strategies.

Consultation is available to community agencies, such as Licensed Staffed Residential Facilities. Consultation will include collaboration regarding behavior treatment plans, IISPs, FA/PBSPs, PCSPs, and staff training for specific individuals, supervision of behavior plan implementation, group training of the major tenants of ABA and behavior reduction as well as skill development, and individual training on treatment plan implementation and strategies for managing group behaviors. Data analysis and treatment plan modification may also be provided.

Contracted ABA services are available to schools and school districts. Services offered include staff training on principles and strategies of ABA as well as direct support with conducting functional behavior assessments, developing and implementing intervention plans, data collection, and data-based decision making.