Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
The Effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Toddlers (PCIT-T) on Child Functioning and Parental Well-Being
Many are often surprised when they hear that I work with children as young as 12-months-old. “Why would a 12-month-old ever need therapy?” they often ask. To this question I…
ABA | Child & Adolescent Therapy
Top Apps for Children with Autism
Written by Sudha Ramaswamy, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA Proloquo2Go – Symbol-based AAC and Proloquo2Text Proloquo2Go is a complete communication solution providing many natural sounding text-to-speech voices, three complete research-based vocabularies, over…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
Validation: The Parenting Tool that Helps Kids Learn Emotion Regulation Skills
Validation is one of the most powerful parenting tools, and yet it is often left out of traditional behavioral parent training programs. In general, behavioral parent training programs focus on…
ABA
ABA Case Example with a 12 year old
As you know, choosing the right ABA team can be life-changing for a child with ASD and their family. From our experience, the best results come when the team can…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
Treating Children with Anxiety: A Case Presentation using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a 12 year old girl
I look at my schedule and see I have a new patient intake this week. I am going to meet with the parents of a girl in middle school and…
ABA
Understanding ABA Skills, Neuropsychological and Functional Behavior Assessments – How are they similar and different?
Written by Sudha Ramaswamy, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA What is an ABA Skills Assessment? An Applied Behavior Analysis Skills (ABA) Assessment is an extremely useful tool in accurately pinpointing the appropriate…
Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
Parent Modeling: Helping parents improve their children’s behaviors
This pandemic has been hard on families in a lot of ways. Being an employee, a chef, a maid, a home repair expert, a teacher and a parent 24 hours…
ABA | Child & Adolescent Therapy
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) as a Treatment for ADHD
Applied Behavioral Analysis has become famous over the years for the skills growth it produces in children on the Autism Spectrum. But it is less well known that ABA has…
Adult & Couples Therapy | Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
The Power of Talking
As the new school year approaches and families begin to feel the stress of having to decide, among other things, which learning option is best for them, there is one…
Child & Adolescent Therapy | Mental Health | Parenting & Family Therapy
8 Week Emotion Regulation Group for Parents and Children Ages 8-10
Over the course of 8 weeks, children ages 8-10 will meet virtually in a group of no more than 5 children and 2 clinicians once per week for 30 minutes…