Members of our leadership team regularly serve on the Board of Directors for state and national associations, are invited speakers at local, state, and national events, and present clinical research at conferences throughout the world.
We are also an approved praticum site for many graduate school programs and provide supervision for our BCBA candidates. FirstSteps is also an approved Authorized Continuing Education (ACE) provider for the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) and a proud member of the Council of Autism Service Providers (CASP)
Members of our leadership also appear on podcasts, advocate at the capitol, publish papers and write books.
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ABA is a scientific approach to learning with a focus on the factors that motivate, reinforce, and maintain human behavior. FirstSteps adds heart to our science.
Your child is our priority, and we want them to have a say in their own learning. We will honor their opiions and celebrate that they have them. From what we teach to how we will attend to your child's non-verbal and expressed preferences and will always ask, not tell.
We are person-centered in all we do; we want to design interventions that our kids enjoy and value. We want to show them easier ways to express their needs and wants, and to choose to try something different when their past behavior has caused them more trial than triumph.
If your child is currently non-verbal, we will attend to their cues; are they smiling, engaged, looking for more, or are they frustrated and irritable and needing a break? Their feelings take priority. We will be there for them during their happy and challenging times, reassuring them as they take each step in the learning process.
To that end, our interventions are completely individualized. We will never simply follow an assessment or curriculum without consideration of each learner.
We value diversity, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of our treatment model, in our service delivery with our clients, in collaboration with families and communities, and in our organizational culture and practices with our staff.The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Unlike others, we don't view training as a simple one-time experience for new hires. We are invested in our team, with ongoing learning opportunities provided throughout every year of employment and in every position.
We know that your child's treatment success depends on the expertise of our team and that drives us to continually innovate, share ideas, study the impact of our interventions, document those successes for the larger behavior analytic community, pursue advanced degrees, and even establish a new master's degree program at a top ten university in the country.
We don't just hire for positions; We hire for careers. That is how expertise develops and infuses the high-quality intervention your child will receive at FirstSteps.
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