Services
Direct Autism Services
Ready2Learn offers direct school and home-based services for students identified with autism spectrum disorders. Using a variety of research-based methodologies, including Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Ready2Learn is able to teach academic, social, and behavioral skills to students in concert with school personnel. Ready2Learn also provides direct instruction and consultation to school staff in teaching techniques for students with autism spectrum disorders.
Direct Autism Services are often comprised of:
Assessment
- Careful review of current and prior IEP goals and objectives/benchmarks
- Collection of baseline data to insure proper skill targeting
- Observations of the teaching environment, routines, and schedules
- Preference and reinforcer assessments for each child
Education
- Discussion with staff of educational and behavioral goals, teaching techniques, and implementation procedures
- Explanation and modeling of discrete trial teaching as well as data collection procedures
Planning
- Discussion of prompting hierarchies to promote student independence
- Planning of reinforcement schedules based on behavioral data
Intervention
- Discrete trial teaching of specific academic, social, and behavioral skills
- Generalization of skills through incidental teaching
- Implementation of positive behavior plans when needed