Our In-Home ABA Services

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In-Home Therapy

In-home ABA brings therapy into your child’s everyday environment, making learning natural, comfortable, and easier to carry over into real life. With parents actively involved, progress extends beyond sessions and into daily routines. We provide therapy in the community where children may need support, such as doctors office, toy stores.

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BCBA-Led

Most clinics use RBTs (an entry-level position) to implement and run a child's goals. At Little Steps, a licensed behavior analyst conducts the assessment, writes the treatment plan, provides caregiver coaching, and directly implements care with the client.

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Client-Focused

Our treatment is designed based on each child's specific needs, strengths, and areas of growth. We prioritize the client's experience to ensure maximum fun and engagment while minimizing discomfort.

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Short Stays, Big Gains

We emphasize rapid skill acquisition and family empowerment for long-term independence. By providing services directly, BCBAs are able to provide constant protocol modification and ensure that client's are making the maximum amount of progress.

Our Curriculum

Our curriculum is based on two components, skill acquisition and behavior management.

Skill Acquisition

We utilize the VB-Mapp to determine skill deficits and unlike other clinics that use that as a roadmap to build their interventions, we strictly use it as a tool to measure our progress, not a template for treatment. Once the assessment is complete, we will create an individualized curriculum to minimize skill deficits and treat functional replacement skills

Behavior Reduction

We believe that behaviors occur for a reason and treat them as communication. It is our goal to understand the “Why” behind the behavior and teach replacement behaviors so that they can get what they need in a socially appropriate way.

Skills We Target

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Communication
communication

Communication

The ability to express wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings to others—through words, gestures, signs, or devices. Examples: Requesting with vocalizations, ASL, AAC device. Labeling reinforcers, emotions, observations, etc. Having reciprocal conversations, and more

listener Responding
Listener Responding

Listener Responding

The ability to understand and follow directions or respond appropriately when someone speaks. This includes skills like identifying objects, answering questions, or following multi-step instructions.

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Life Skills
Life Skills

Life Skils

Everyday self-help skills that allow individuals to function independently. These include dressing, toileting, feeding, personal hygiene, and safety awareness.

Social Skills
Social skills

Social Skills

The behaviors that help individuals interact successfully with others such as sharing, taking turns, making eye contact, reading social cues, and forming relationships.

Behavior Management
Social skills

Behavior Management

A set of strategies used to reduce challenging behaviors and teach positive alternatives. The goal is to support emotional regulation, increase desirable behaviors, and to teach kiddos to get the things they need in an appropriate way.

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And More

And More!

Feeding, Sleeping, Imitation, LRFFC, math, reading, writing, etc.

Behavior Management

Click each root to see our approach to behavior management.

Behavior Tree
Joy
Appropriate Skills
Engagement
Trust

Our Approach to Behavior Management

Click any root on the tree to reveal our Behavior Management philosophy, one leaf at a time.

Start with Compassion

We believe that joy in learning begins with compassion in care. We prioritize each child’s emotional experience above all else. When a treatment goal conflicts with how a child is feeling, we adjust our approach to ensure progress happens in a way that feels safe, respectful, and collaborative. We prioritize creating a supportive environment where children feel safe and heard.

Skill Focused

We treat behaviors as communication and a deficit in skills, rather than a problem that needs to be fixed. By focusing on the specific deficits that may be causing the behavior, we can decrease the challenging behavior in a way that increases client joy and the development of socially appropriate skills.

Assent brings Engagement

Typical ABA programs focus on implementing extinction-based procedures in combination with reinforcement, which can be aversive to clients, may increase the intensity and frequency of problem behaviors, and are oftentimes used ineffectively since it is not possible to eliminate the reinforcement of every instance of behavior. We believe that all aspects of treatment, even behavior management, should implement the least restrictive measures and include the child's agreement as well. When the child's interests and feelings are listened to, engagement in treatment increases.

Trust & Safety First

Behavior management should be consistent and understood by the learner. By providing predictable responses to behavior, access to reinforcement, and boundaries, the child is able to understand and agree to participate in treatment. When conflicts between assent and safety occur, prioritize safety while still honoring the child’s voice and modifying our approach to regain trust.

Compassionate ABA

Assent in Practice

How we build trust, honor choice, and support real learning.

What is Assent?

Assent is a child’s willingness to participate, shown through verbal or non-verbal behavior. It is different from consent, which is given by a legal guardian. At Little Steps, we center your child’s voice and choose the least restrictive, most preferred interventions.

Risks of Not Valuing Assent

When assent is overlooked, children may show more escape behavior, less participation, and higher stress. We prevent this by prioritizing the child’s experience and adjusting supports early.

Assent Withdrawal

“No,” shutting down, avoiding eye contact, or spikes in behavior can signal withdrawal. We pause, reduce demands, shift activities, and repair so the child can re-engage.

Benefits of Valuing Assent

Respecting assent builds trust, improves learning, reduces escape behavior, and strengthens the child’s voice. With trust, kids lean in and progress accelerates.

How we honor assent

  • Make meaningful changes in intervention
  • Allow the child to initiate
  • Ending activities when assent is withdrawn
  • Easy outs and quick repair when things get hard
  • Treating behavior as communication
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