To provide compassionate, quality and comprehensive behavior therapy services to children with developmental disabilities and to help educate and support the families and friends of these children in a caring, open and collaborative environment. 

Are you interested in a Verbal Behavior workshop? We are looking into hosting a 3 day workshop lead by Dr. Vincent Carbone, BCBA on verbal behavior programming. It will be his initial training so it's great for parents and professionals. Please let us know if you're interested so that we can make sure we have enough interest!

SOCIAL SKILLS GROUPS - start soon! Call to reserve your spot today.  615-331-1141

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the design, implementation, and evaluation of environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior. ABA includes the use of direct observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the relations between environment and behavior. ABA uses antecedent stimuli and consequences, based on the findings of descriptive and functional analysis, to produce practical change. ABA is based on the belief that an individuals behavior is determined by past and current environmental events in conjunction with organic variables such as genetics. Thus, it focuses on explaining behavior in terms of external events that can be manipulated rather than internal constructs that are beyond our control. (exert from Behavior Analyst Certification Board)

Research studies have documented the effectiveness of ABA across a wide range of: 

• Populations (children and adults with mental illness, developmental disabilities and learning disorders)
• Interventionists (parents, teachers and staff) 
• Settings (schools, homes, institutions, group homes, hospitals and business offices)
• Behaviors (language; social, academic, leisure and functional life skills; aggression, self-injury, oppositional and stereotyped behaviors) 
  

*A new website and NEW email addresses. In addition to our website changing so have our emails. Please make note that all of our emails have remained the same EXCEPT they now end in .com rather than .net. 

PAYMENT OPTIONS
We have been able to accept payments from credit cards as well as Paypal account for some time through our website under Parents and then Payments. Starting 5/22/12 we are able to accept Health Saving Account and Flex Spending Account payments as well! These must be made through the office, not on our website at this time. Hopefully this will offer families more options in funding the services for their child!