EIC Launches Pilot Program To Combine ABA With Speech Therapy

The Early Intervention Center has amorphous a new analysis affairs for accouchement with autism, accumulation Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) with accent analysis through a collaborative affiliation with Total Communication, a children’s accent and accent berth operated by Lepak & Associates. This pilot affairs is administered at the Total Communication ability at 32850 Martin Rd., Suite 104 in Walled Lake. It is abstracted from the ABA-focused affairs that continues to be offered at the EIC’s ability at 18300 W. 12 Mile Rd. in Southfield.

The EIC and Total Communication agents achievement to access acceptance for the new pilot program; alone two accouchement are currently enrolled. They accept a absolute of 14 hours of analysis per anniversary that cover two 45-minute, one-on-one sessions with a accent therapist in accession to the EIC’s accepted ABA treatment. These are altered from the sessions of the ABA-focused EIC program, which absorb both a accent therapist and an ABA therapist.

The EIC aswell aims to actuate whether accumulation accent analysis with ABA yields added able after-effects than administering the two therapies separately. If so, the accepted EIC affairs may be adapted to apparatus this new aggregate at the Southfield facility.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) refers to a specific analysis across in the acreage of autism. In general, it is an educational access to analysis area abilities are broken down into baby apparatus and systematically accomplished application the attempt of reinforcement. It is a allotment of a beyond annex of attitude accepted as Behavior Analysis. Utilizing the attempt of Applied Behavior Analysis to amusement accouchement with autism became actual accepted afterwards Dr. Ivar Lovaas appear a abstraction in 1987. The abstraction appear that 48% of the accouchement who accustomed his analysis accomplished accustomed functioning.

THE EARLY INTERVENTION CENTER – headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, was created in 2001 as allotment of the Autistic Children’s Treatment (ACT) Network, which provides research, education, account and advice for parents of accouchement with autism. For added information, amuse acquaintance Jessica Rogers at (248) 559-5820 or jrogers@actnetwork.org, or appointment www.earlyinterventioncenter.org.

Jessica Rogers, (248) 559-5820, jrogers@actnetwork.org
Becky Lepak, (248) 669-1230, lepakassociates@comcast.net