Direct ABA Therapy
At Advance Therapy, we provide a comprehensive range of center-based ABA therapy services for children on the autism spectrum. Our evidence-based approach offers multiple benefits for your child and family, and direct ABA therapy is just one of the many support options we provide.
What is Differential Reinforcement?
Direct Autism Therapy refers to one-on-one therapeutic sessions where a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), under the supervision of a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), works directly with your child to build meaningful skills. During these sessions, the therapist focuses on teaching communication, social interaction, daily living skills, and reducing challenging behaviors through evidence-based strategies, including ABA principles.
This individualized approach ensures your child receives focused support tailored to their unique needs — helping them grow, learn, and thrive across all environments.
To better understand direct ABA therapy, let’s explore some of its key aspects.
Behavior Analysis
“Behavior analysis” might sound intimidating, but it’s simply the process of gathering information about your child’s behavior patterns, interactions, and skills. Our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) play a central role in your child’s behavior analysis. A BCBA will spend time interacting with your child and making observations. Their experience and training enable them to gather essential information about your child’s unique strengths and needs to create a personalized treatment plan.
Skill Acquisition
Skill acquisition focuses on helping children learn new abilities. Following a treatment plan designed by their BCBA, a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) guides your child through therapy sessions. This process promotes growth in critical areas, including academics, social interaction, communication, and daily living skills, allowing your child to bloom and thrive.
Treatment Plan
This might sound clinical, but it’s truly all about your child. A treatment plan is a customized roadmap for your child’s therapy. Our BCBAs carefully assess your child’s skills across multiple areas—communication, social interaction, daily living, and more—to create a plan tailored specifically to their needs.
Your child’s individualized plan outlines clear therapy goals and provides recommendations for the number of therapy hours that will best support their growth. This ensures that every session is purposeful and focused on helping your child thrive.
At Advance Therapy, once a comprehensive assessment is completed and a personalized treatment plan is in place, your child begins direct autism therapy. Each therapy experience is unique, tailored to your child’s individual needs and goals as determined by their BCBA in collaboration with you.
During sessions, our RBTs employ a variety of proven teaching methods to support your child’s growth. These include Natural Environment Teaching (NET), incidental teaching, Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), task analysis, and Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT). Think of each method as a tool in a toolbox—allowing therapists to meet your child exactly where they are and provide the most effective, individualized learning experience possible.
Direct autism therapy at Advance Therapy offers your child a range of valuable benefits:
1-on-1 Support: Focused attention ensures your child’s learning needs are fully addressed.
Flexible Approach: Your child’s BCBA can adjust the therapy plan as needed to optimize progress and outcomes.
Individualized Experience: Unlike indirect therapy, direct therapy at Advance Therapy is fully tailored to your child’s unique strengths, needs, and goals.
Start Your Autism Therapy Journey with Advance Therapy Autism Services
If you have questions about ABA behavior consultations or want to start a journey of life-changing ABA therapy for your child, contact our friendly Advance Therapy team today.
