April 29, 2011
EAP is devoted to treating children with autism.
- We are committed to providing the highest quality intensive behavioral treatment focused on the individual needs of each child and family in order to ensure that each child reaches his or her best possible outcome.
- We acknowledge the important role of the family in achieving improvement of the child. It is because they are the people whom the child gets in contact with. Behavior can only be corrected and formed when there is consistency.
Our therapists are trained by experts. These experts who are consultants of EAP perform the following:
- Supervise therapists during sessions both in the home and center;
- Work closely with the entire therapy team to monitor the child’s emotional responses. This will guide the team with the appropriate teaching materials to use as well as how to teach the child. This is because each child has different levels of ability and rate of learning.
Once children have learned to attend to and imitate others, we begin to focus on social interaction skills and let the children participate in normal environments such as preschool. The goals of our treatment program are the following:
- Help children with autism learn new skills fast enough to catch up with other children;
- Help their families learn to implement treatment strategies across environments.
Our team which consist of clinical staff, including a Consultant, EAP Senior Consultant, Psycholigst and WEAP Senior Consultant, provides children and family with:
- Individualized treatment to meet children’s needs;
- Training for the family together with the therapy team to implement a program of study using behavioral interventions which form the basis of Dr. Ivar Lovaas’ approach which includes:
- the use of discrete trials
- positive reinforcement
- extinction
- prompting
- shaping
- programming for generalization
- and a variety of other treatment approaches and strategies may be used to teach specific skills when appropriate for individual children.