ABA Therapy in Indianapolis

Your child’s team will consist of a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) as well as two primary registered behavior technicians (RBTs). The BCBA will oversee the child’s treatment, provide training and supervision to the RBTs, and meet with the parent regularly for training and collaboration. In addition, our KCT directors and related disciplines (ST, OT, PT, and mental health) work and serve together to help the child and family.

ABA focuses on speech, language, and functional communication training throughout the entire ABA therapy day. Your child’s ABA team will collaborate with your child’s KCT speech therapist weekly. Also, KCT is a LAMP Center of Excellence and will often use LAMP, speech communication devices, and other augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) modalities as a bridge to development of speech. In addition, our BCBAs benefit from collaboration with speech therapy on apraxia of speech and other diagnoses comorbid with autism.

Play and social skills are also focused on throughout the therapy day. In therapy, children will progress through different milestones of play and social behavior, such as parallel, associative, collaborative, and imaginative play. Social language may be shaped from basic greetings and requests from adults and peers to more complex social conversation.

Activities of daily living important to the child and family may be targeted within the therapy day. These may include skills like toilet training, dressing, toothbrushing, and others. At KCT, the child’s BCBA can collaborate weekly with the child’s KCT occupational therapist on skills that are socially significant to the child and family.

K1ds Count Therapy ABA seeks to understand a child’s individual interests, motivation as well as the function of behaviors that impede participation in activities across settings. Through this understanding of behavior and the application of ABA, we can help to shape and replace challenging behaviors in order for the child and family to enjoy meaningful activities at school, home, and in the community.

Each child receives 1:1 ABA therapy within small group settings with opportunities for large group time in a classroom like setting with a simulated “teacher” leading the group at least once per day. In addition to the social and classroom groups, during the ABA therapy day, the children may participate in structured gym, food group, language and learning group, and LAMP group.

At K1ds Count Therapy, we begin looking at the transition plan to school starting on day one. Our KCT school transition team meets at least quarterly with the school systems surrounding our KCT centers. Our school transition team consists of a KCT SPED director, BCBA, other KCT leaders, parents, and the child’s school. The team ensures that a school plan is implemented at least one year prior to transition to ensure that all assessments and support needs are met.