What “ABA informed” means.

If you have spent time in the autism world, you have opinions about ABA, or you have met people who do. Some families swear by it. Some adults who went through it describe it as rigid and about compliance. Both are describing something real.

We say we are "ABA informed". Here is what that means.

What ABA is

A science of learning. Behaviour is learned, it serves a purpose, and it can be taught, strengthened or replaced. Its tools are practical: break a skill into small steps, prompt, reinforce, fade the prompts, and practise in different places until the skill holds.

Underneath the tools is one discipline we think is non-negotiable: measure everything.

What we take from it

All of the above. Every child has a plan with goals. Every goal is broken into small steps. Every response is recorded. Behaviour is read as communication: what is this child telling us?

That is why we can send you a report after every session.

What we leave behind

We are not a clinic. We do not run forty-hour weeks at a table. Our facilitators are trained specialists, not clinicians.

And we leave behind the parts that earned the criticism. A child who says no, with words or with their body, is heard. We do not use punishment. We do not confuse a child who cannot with a child who will not.

We do not teach a child to perform a skill for a reward. We teach a child to own it.

What we add

Play Therapy is the way in. Play is a child's first language. We teach inside the games your child already loves.

Calm to Learn Strategies are the starting point. A child who is not calm cannot learn. So we settle first, then teach.

Under all three: connection before correction. Relationship first, because children learn when they feel safe.