individualized treatment plans

We create comprehensive treatment plans that focus on skill building and behavior replacement goals, tailored uniquely to your child’s skills and family’s needs.

Prior to the development of your child’s individualized treatment plan, our team will assess your child using a variety of assessment tools. Assessments will be completed prior to the start of sessions and every six months following the initial assessment to evaluate progress and update the treatment plan.

A list of our assessment tools include but are not limited to:

• Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills— Revised

• Functional Behavior Assessment

• Essential for Living

• The PEAK: Relational Training System

• Assessment of Functional Living Skills

• Verbal Behavior Milestone Assessment and Placement Programs

1:1 ABA Sessions

Your child will work with a behavior therapist in your home, our center in the heart of Falls Church, at school or childcare, or in the community. During these treatment sessions, the behavior therapist will implement your child’s individualized treatment and behavior intervention plans to focus on skill building goals. The behavior therapist will actively take data for all skill building programs and target behavior that occurs during each session. Data is used to analyze and interpret your child’s progress and is essential for all treatment decisions.

Parent Training and Family support

The family has a significant impact on progress, and we are here to prepare the family with the skills necessary to implement ABA principles. We provide parents, family members and caregivers with training opportunities that focus on ABA concepts, teaching procedures, and behavior strategies to promote generalization of skills outside of sessions and in the home and community. We always encourage parents to participate in sessions.

Individual education program (iep) support

Developing a tailored program for your child’s education can be overwhelming. Guidance and support through that process from someone familiar with both the educational issues and the science behind effective interventions can be helpful. We offer consulting to parents on the development of scientifically-sound educational plans that stand the best chance of developing effective skills for their child.

We are available to review the current IEP and other treatment plans and make recommendations to you regarding refocusing, altering treatment/educational methodologies, and improvement in data collection to determine progress.

We are also available to accompany you to meetings with educational and therapy service providers to assist in presenting our analysis and recommendations in the services offered to your child. While we are not there to serve as advocates or attorneys, we are able to speak directly with the current service providers about our recommendations, explain our reasoning, and answer questions about practical implementation issues that arise in the process of revising the current interventions.

Collaboration with other professionals

Collaboration is also an integral part of each individual’s progress. Our consultants meet with each family regularly to share progress and discuss ways to generalize treatment in the home. We also frequently overlap and communicate with our clients’ teachers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, vision and hearing specialists, as well as many other related professionals. This team approach provides the foundation for your child to generalize new skills.

Converge Behavioral Services partner with a variety of professionals across disciplines to foster a climate of:

• Child-centered programming

• Open and clear communication between healthcare professionals, parents and children

• Mutual respect for each team member

• Consistency in intervention treatment

• Positive attitudes

• Flexibility in scheduling for children and their parents

• Problem-solving