About Us
You Can Believe in
That gets to The Root
You Can Depend On
THat Grows With Your Child
Speaks The Right Language
Makes Positive Change
Helps To Heal
Kidz Companion, Inc. provides home-based ABA therapy services for children (18 months-12 years) and young adults (13-21 years) with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other (often related) developmental disorders including:
- Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Panic disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
About ABA
Using established principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), we work with your child or young adult to improve cognitive, social and personal skills, increase overall functioning while addressing negative and/or maladaptive behaviors that may cause harm or hamper the ability to learn or function at an appropriate level.
Our ABA Services
The journey for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other disorders may be difficult, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.
Our ABA services strive to enhance learning capabilities in any setting, foster relationships, and promote independence. By addressing the needs of the child or young adult, the parents, and the entire family, we aim to create a more positive and fulfilling path forward.
Focused Attention On Your Child
Our ABA services are child-centric, a one-on-one service based on an individualized assessment of your child or young adult to highlight positive behaviors and negate maladaptive ones.
Teaching Functional & Life Skills
We help your child or young adult to be more functional and independent while at the same time addressing behavioral problems and bridging gaps that can hinder social interaction and creating friendships.
Revealing The Best Version
ABA therapy allows your child or young adult to be the best version of themselves overcoming obstacles that hinder the ability to bond with parents, family and friends and preparing them for school and “real-world” experiences.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Our ABA therapy services dramatically improve socially-significant behaviors and addresses negative and/or maladaptive behaviors by focusing on decreasing problem behaviors and identifying functional replacement skills that help a child or young adult to have greater success in many environments.
The effectiveness of ABA therapy in producing long-lasting behavior change with individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental disorders has been well-researched and documented over the last several decades.
Early Intervention
Providing therapy and support at an early age can have a direct effect on a child’s brain development, enabling him or her to communicate better with basic things like wants or needs or hurts.
Early intervention with ABA therapy helps children to acquire these crucial skills effectively preparing them for kindergarten and beyond.
The sooner your child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) receives therapy, the better equipped he or she will be to become a productive learner in the classroom. In turn, this can reduce problem behaviors and boost the ability to learn.
Behavior Consultation
Behavior consultation that highlights the unique challenges of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other related developmental disorders in the public and private school setting.
Working collaboratively with educators, we can address disruptive behaviors and develop behavior intervention plans and effective systems of reinforcement to help achieve meaningful objectives in the classroom.
Age: 18 months-5 years
There isn’t a cure for autism, but early intervention affords the best opportunity to support healthy development.
With children as young as 18 months, early intervention has a direct effect on brain development and can be key to improving challenging behavior, boosting IQ, language and social interaction capability providing children the opportunity to acquire crucial age- and developmentally-appropriate language, effectively preparing them for kindergarten and beyond.
Age: 5-12 years
Everything a child or young adult does is considered a behavior (i.e., talking, eating, coloring, tying shoes).
ABA therapy explores the relationship between learning and behavior by looking at the function of the behavior, the purpose behind the behavior and the environment in which the behavior occur in order to revise an action or teach a new, more functional way to complete a behavior.
Age: 13–21 years
Navigating the teenage years is a minefield, but for those with the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the challenge is even greater. Young adults with ASD typically cling to routines, consistency and orderliness, the extensive changes that come about during the middle and high school years can be especially difficult to maneuver.
ABA therapy focuses on conditioned reinforcement as the young adult has had a longer history in building long-held behaviors. When we build a strong rapport with a young adult, new skills and behavior changes can be reinforced.
Changing Behavior. Changes Lives.
Providing exceptional ABA services throughout the state of Florida to improve behaviors, master new skills and achieve success for your child or young adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other, often related, developmental disorders.
Comprehensive Assessment
We assess the functioning level of your child or young adult. ABA therapy helps to increase cognitive skills (letter and word recognition, reading, and writing); improve the overall level of functioning with self-care, daily living skills, motor skills and social skills.
Treatment Planning
Through observation and analysis, our ABA therapists develop and refine an individualized treatment plan to meet your child’s or young adult’s needs to maximize learning and functioning potential.
Treatment Process
ABA specialists monitors, evaluates and updates the treatment plan as needed, tracks progress reports, provides supervision, conducts parent and family coaching sessions and remains available to you as your child or young adult progresses.
Implementation
A Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) provides ABA services in home or in school, to implement the optimal treatment plan that best fits your child or young adult and their individualized treatment goals.
Parent & Family Coaching
Our ABA specialists collaborate with parents & families to ensure a clear understanding of ABA therapy and how it impacts your child or young adult and the family dynamic.