Behaviour Therapy

Behaviour Therapy

One on one behaviour therapy
Group based behaviour therapy

Individualized Intervention

Under 6 Programming

Our intensive behaviour intervention program meets the needs of children under the age of 6. In coordination with our Behaviour Consultant Henrietta Penney M.S.Ed., and Behaviour Intervention Program Coordinator (BIPC) Kalma Arnett and BIPC Reid Saffarek, we develop an individualized plan of intervention based of the needs of your child. Through our initial rapport building we test all levels of child development based on the Assessment of Behaviour Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS) to determine the initial programming goals. Parents are encouraged to participate in as many intervention sessions as possible to promote skill building across environments and generalize a child’s skill to outside of the T&K environment.

Our teaching combines a variety of ABA styles including Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) which is very structured, behaviour interventionist lead with specific programming targets; embedded activity which is still structured and focused on targets, but is BI lead with more flexibility; child lead where the BI decreases structure, but keeps targets in mind, and finally Natural Environment Teaching (NET) opportunities where the BI grabs the moment to teach a target.

Our under 6 programming promotes successful transition into other preschools or kindergarten environments. Children are exposed to a variety of expectations including compliance with a teacher, getting along with peers, sitting at a table, snack time, circle times, and physical activity, in addition to their individualized learned goals.

In addition to our individualized behaviour intervention goals, we encourage consultation from your child’s Occupational Therapist and Speech and Language Pathologist. By working as a team we can better predict successful acquisition of skills for your child. It is expected parents, professionals and the T&K team meet regularly to discuss your child’s progress.

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School Aged Individualized Programming

School aged children attending T&K continue to received one on one supports (unless participating in a social group). We create an individualized program goal (IPG) document which outlines specific goals for each intervention session. Goals on this IPG are created in combination with parents and other professionals. Each IPG will have 6-8 broad programming goals, within these goals will be concrete targets or smaller steps we aim to master within 6 to 8 weeks. If your child has not achieved this target within a predetermined time, we re-evaluate our target or teaching strategy to promote success. Parents receive completed IPG’s monthly.

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Group Intervention

Tween group (ages 10-12)

Our tween group focuses on the early lessons of social thinking. Social thinking is what we do when we interact with people: we think about them. And how we think about people affects how we behave, which in turn affects how others respond to us, which in turn affects our own emotions (www.socialthinking.com). This group learns about good social skills which involves more than direct language-based interactions. They explore sharing space with others, thinking about others in the shared environment, and learning to regulate one’s own behaviour to other people’s thoughts and expectations. Within these social lessons include self-regulation, emotional regulation, anger management and an introduction to hygiene and puberty. The tween group is a small with a maximum of 6 members, who all benefit from the reciprocal learning environment of the group. Each week parents are provided with a summary of the social lesson learned that day; giving parents the opportunity to engage in conversation with their tween about the ideas taught, and empowering their tween to generalize the concepts learned to other environments outside of T&K.

Teen Group (ages 13-19)

The T&K teen group learns from the concepts of social thinking. Social thinking is what we do when we interact with people: we think about them. And how we think about people affects how we behave, which in turn affects how others respond to us, which in turn affects our own emotions (www.socialthinking.com). Transitioning and learning about the challenges of high school is a common topic in our teen group lessons. Teens spend ample time working on conversation and communication skills, community and life skills, pre-employment and adult transitioning. Each week parents are provided with a summary of the social lesson learned that day; giving parents the opportunity to engage in conversation with their teen about the ideas taught, and empowering their teen to generalize the concepts learned to other environments outside of T&K.

Young Adult Group (ages 19-24)

Young adults face many challenges transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. This group focuses on the specific skills needed to successfully move into adulthood including anger management, emotional awareness, pre-employment, dating, functional life skills, and adaptive functioning skills to name a few. Each week parents/caregivers are provided with a summary of the social lesson learned that day; giving them the opportunity to engage in conversation with their young adult about the ideas taught, and empowering them to generalize the concepts learned to other environments outside of T&K.

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