We feel that frequent visits and a hands-on approach are key to your child's success. Our practitioners will be on-hand to work with your child, family, and team of therapists with regular visits and check-ins to make sure you feel confident and supported.
As well as carrying out a full assessment of your child's abilities, designing and overseeing your support programme, we can also spend sessions working one-to-one with your child. By working directly with your child we can provide well-informed and individualised support based on your child's learning style and motivation. Our hands-on approach means we can keep up with the pace of your child's learning, and address any issues quickly - all to maximise your child’s potential.
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) ABA practitioners, or Behaviour Analysts, recognise that every person with a learning difficulty has different strengths, and faces different challenges. A good Behaviour Analyst will work hard to engage your child in their learning, so that they are happy and motivated to learn and achieve. Our approach is based on Progressive ABA, which is flexible and child-centred. Learning should always be a positive experience, which is why the teaching approaches we use focus on rewarding success. Our practitioners will draw on your child's interests, motivation, and learning style to adapt teaching to best suit their needs. Read more about Progressive ABA over on our blog. The end goal of our therapy programmes is independence. Practitioners will always aim to fade back prompting and environmental supports, so that skills are functional and useful for the learner within their learning placement and home environment. We aim to give our learners the tools they need to succeed on their own. ABA is an umbrella term for a wide range of effective teaching methods. We will identify the most crucial skills for your child - for example communication, social skills, academics, community participation or daily living skills - and put specific programmes in place to support them with each area. |
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Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) PBS emphasises teaching children positive behaviour, instead of simply punishing negative ones. PBS can help children by:
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Natural Environment Teaching (NET)NET involves natural and motivating activities, that are a part of an individual's everyday life, and using these to teach new skills. The goal of NET is to provide learning opportunities in natural environments or daily routines, so that individuals can learn functional skills in places they will actually use them. Practitioners get to know the individual's interests and natural curiosity, and uses these to embed learning opportunities, such as communication and play skills. Some important principles of NET include:
We use NET with many of our younger, pre-school learners to embed teaching targets into child-led activities, and also with our older learners to teach functional life skills such as cooking or vocational tasks. |
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Systematic InstructionMany of our learners struggle to learn academic skills through the constructivist approach in traditional mainstream settings. The success of this approach relies on students being active learners, who can take the lead in problem solving and learn flexibly. For children who do not make good progress with these less structured teaching approaches, we can put in place a range of academic interventions (reading, writing, numeracy) based on Systematic Instruction. This is a more methodical approach to teaching, that involves carefully planning and sequencing teaching targets to promote efficient learning. It involves breaking down complex skills into smaller, manageable steps or components, and then teaching them with clear instructional objectives, often supported with visual aids, and ongoing assessment to monitor progress and provide feedback. |
Our guidance also draws from other approaches including:
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- Early Start Denver Model
- The Verbal Behavior Approach
- The Seven Steps to Earning Instructional Motivation
- The Pyramid Approach
- The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- Teaching Good Learner Repertoires
- Practical Functional Assessment
- Flexible and Focussed
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