What is ABA Therapy?

ABA therapy applies treatment strategies to increase skills in core areas including speech and language, social, play, and daily living skills. In addition, through through a functional behavior assessment and creation of a behavior intervention plan, ABA helps to shape and change problem behaviors and provide the child and parent with tools for successful participation in home, school, and community activities.

Services Offered by Our ABA Therapy Team

Your Child's ABA Team

Your child’s team will consist of a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) as well as 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 leadership team and related disciplines (ST, OT) 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 MTS speech therapist weekly. Also, MTS 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 MTS, the child’s BCBA can collaborate weekly with the child’s MTS occupational therapist on skills that are socially significant to the child and family.

MTS Kids 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.

Children within the ABA therapy program may benefit from other services at MTS, including speech therapy and occupational therapy. If you believe your child or family would benefit from additional services, you may communicate with your BCBA who will help point you in the right direction for support and services.

Why Choose MTS Kids for ABA Therapy?

When you’re looking for trusted ABA therapy in the Upstate South Carolina, look no further than MTS Kids. With our comprehensive program, we are 100% committed to providing top-quality care and services to each child. Don’t trust just anyone when it comes to your child’s therapy. Turn to our experts for a personalized learning approach. On top of ABA therapy, we also offer speech and occupational therapies. For questions about our program or to get started, don’t hesitate to give us a call.