ACT Learning Centre provides evidence-based, innovative, and leading-edge assessment and intervention for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental delays or developmental disabilities. Located across Ottawa and in Kingston, therapies are offered by our experienced therapists at our clinics or in your home.
ABA is an evidence-based, scientific intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It uses evidence-based behavioural principles to produce meaningful change in behaviour.
Skills that are commonly taught through ABA therapy include communication, cognition, pre-academics, play skills, joint attention, social skills, and independent self-help skills like dressing, feeding and toileting. In addition to this, ABA therapy aims to replace challenging behaviours by teaching the individual more socially appropriate behaviours.
Strategies that are based in ABA included discrete trail teaching (DTT), incidental teaching or natural environment training (NET), the verbal behaviour approach to language and early childhood interventions like the Early Start Denver Model.
A typical ABA program is delivered less than 20 hours per week, depending on the needs and goals of the individual child. ABA is used to target specific skills and tends to focus on 1 or 2 main goals identified by parents and the clinician as a priority for intervention.
Through ACT Learning Centre’s ABA program, you will receive:
The team at ACT Learning Centre is comprised of dedicated therapists with unique backgrounds and specialties. Our therapists collaborate with the families and each other to create a hybrid model using speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, mental health services and ABA therapy, depending on the needs and diagnosis of each client. All of ACT’s services are offered in both French and English.
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