The ultimate goal of our program is to improve the quality of life for the children we serve and their families.  The specific goals and purposes are:

• To teach the child pivotal behaviors including motivation, responsivity to multiple cues, self-management, and social initiations that will lead to widespread collateral improvements in the communication, socialization and behavioral domains. 
• To teach parents, families and caregivers the necessary skills to help them teach their children to move towards meeting age appropriate developmental milestones.
• To teach parents and caregivers methods of reducing interfering behaviors while increasing appropriate alternative behaviors.
• To decrease the child’s behaviors that interfere with their integration into the community as well as their daily lives and the lives of their families. 
• To increase the child’s repertoire of replacement behaviors that will replace interfering behaviors. 
• To increase the child’s functional skills in the areas of communication, socialization, and self-help. Below are some of the specific outcomes that may be met through services.
  • Communication: Functional communication, requesting, commenting, responding to multiple cues, asking questions, responding to statements, engaging in reciprocal conversation, conversation skills, expressing emotional states, expressing physical states. 
  • Socialization: Initiation of interaction, independent play skills, functional play, interactive play, pretend play, interaction with peers, interaction with others, social cues, social boundaries, emotions, understanding empathy, perspective taking, general social behavior. 
  • Self-Help: Age-appropriate independent tasks, self- management, dressing, eating, bathing, grooming, toileting.