The PBS Therapy Blog publishes helpful articles and videos with tips and information about ABA therapy for parents of children with autism.
If you’re the parent of a child with autism, you’ve likely heard of applied behavior analysis, or ABA. Depending on where you are with regards to your child’s treatment options, you may not be fully familiar with the benefits that can come from working with an ABA professional. ABA therapists, sometimes called school behavior analysts,…
Last week we focused on helping to raise independence in the bathroom during the brushing teeth activity, this week we move to a step by step instruction on how to teach your child hand washing instructions. All of these routines are crucial to living a healthy hygienic life for your child and allow them the…
Introducing a new series by Progressive therapist, Alexis Martinez, taking you in 8 parts through teaching each of your child’s most common daily routines. First, brushing teeth! During the course of work in the field, we have seen a growing need for a reference guide or “jumping off point” for training daily skills for many…
This last weekend, the Special Needs community in South Florida came out to the 2017 Autism Speaks Walk. As always, the Progressive team came out in full force to get together and basically celebrate our shared commitment to working with our families, many of whom we had the honor of seeing. We spend far too…
One of Progressive Behavioral Science’s goals is to make ABA therapy as accessible and understandable as possible for parents. After all, ABA is an exploding field with so much research and data that it is enough, even in this age of information, to make heads spin. We at Progressive Behavioral Science have boiled a lot…