What is Applied Behaviour Analysis Therapy?
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is an evidence‑based approach that helps children build meaningful skills through positive, supportive learning. We focus on understanding how each child learns, what motivates them, and how to break down goals into achievable steps that lead to real progress in communication, independence, and emotional wellbeing.
Applied Behaviour Analaysis can be used to teach children a vast amount of skills:
✓ Effective communication
✓ Language and building vocabulary
✓ Play Skills
✓ Social Skills
✓Academic Skills
✓ Emotional Regulation
✓ Self-Help and Independent Living Skills
What can be taught?
Applied Behaviour Analaysis is a person centered therapy and therefore so is the process we follow:
✓ Personalised assessment and goal‑setting
✓ Compassionate, strengths‑based intervention
✓ Collaboration with parents, schools, and other professionals
✓ A focus on meaningful, functional outcomes
What can you expect?
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Our programme is designed to build a clear, data-driven pathway for your child’s development, beginning with a comprehensive understanding of their unique strengths and needs and followed by a carefully tailored plan to support meaningful progress across key areas of growth.
How Does an ABA Programme Work?
We start with a full developmental assessment of your child’s baseline skills, assessing which behaviours are in excess e.g. protesting behaviours, tantrums, aggressive or self injurious behaviours and which behaviours require strengthening e.g. language and communication skils, play skills, social skills, academic skills and self help skills
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The information gathered during the assessment is reviewed by the board-certified behaviour analyst (BCBA), the function of behaviour’s is determined, and a baseline of skills is established, providing a clear starting point
A highly individualised programme is developed targeting these areas:
- Behaviour interventions aimed at reducing the behaviours in excess - Teaching interventions aimed at developing and strengthening skills
Data is recorded about each skill during every session and then regular workshops are held to ensure that progression is monitored
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Once the intervention programme has been defined and implemented, a data collection system is prepared . After each session, the tutor running the session will write down every step that the child went through across each of the activities that were run throughout the session.
Which targets were taught
What kind of prompting method was used
How the child responded to these prompts
Which responses were correct and independent
This data is then reviewed by the BCBA and Clinical Director at regular intervals depending on the package chosen and the frequency/intensity of the intervention. More weekly hours means more frequent workshops.
The child’s progress is then reviewed, to identify potential next steps or in case the learning has plateaued, what changes need to be made to the intervention and prompting procedures to ensure that progress continues at a steady rate. If the child is not learning in the way that we teach, then we must change the way that we teach.