Clinic-Based Services
The clinic is for children diagnosed with autism age six and under. Services include a complete skill assessment with the ABLLS-R, verbal behavior training, social skills training, play/leisure skill development, functional assessment, analysis of problem behavior, as well as parent and staff workshops. Sessions entail 1:1 ABA therapy daily for three hours. Morning (9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.) and afternoon (1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) slots are available. The clinic is a year round program. The role of SOS Health Care, Inc. is to provide the administration at no cost and to assure no child is left out because of an inability to pay.
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Home-Based Services
For families wishing to set up a home-based program based on the principles of behavior analysis, our company provides consultative services, which include initial workshops, frequent follow-up and program adjustments, and on going ABA therapy and supervision by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA). Our company employs one full-time BCBA with other board certified practitioners assisting with training, program development, and evaluation. Our behavior analysts are among the most well trained clinicians in the country with significant experience working with individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities.
School-Based Services
Our practice works with school districts across the state of South Carolina providing a wide range of services, including staff training, functional assessments/behavior intervention plans, and ABA programming. During training workshops, we provide participants with both a conceptual framework of the behavioral science, as well as "hands on" training opportunities. Data collection is vital to our science, and data from school districts using the ABA approach suggest children rapidly learn skills through this approach to teaching. Some of the basic teaching procedures involve prompting, prompt fading, chaining, errorless teaching, shaping, and differential reinforcement. This practice is dedicated to providing services rooted in procedures and programming validated by scientific literature.
If we are to use the methods of science in the field of human affairs, we must assume behavior is lawful and determined. We must expect to discover what a man does is the result of specifiable conditions and that once these conditions have been discovered, we can anticipate and to some extent determine his actions. (B.F. Skinner, 1953)