Our Approach and Services
Essential Speech and ABA Therapy provides individualized ABA, Speech, and Occupational Therapy for children ages 18 months to 6 years old with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our core mission? To help your child succeed!
Essential Speech and ABA Therapy provides individualized ABA, Speech, and Occupational Therapy for children ages 18 months to 6 years old with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our core mission? To help your child succeed!
We utilize a TEAM approach to treatment. Our facilities are run by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), and Occupational Therapists (OTRs). Your child’s clinicians meet, collaborate, and treat as a team to help your child thrive!
Your child’s needs are at the heart of our program, and all our workers utilize assent-based treatment plans:
To help your child learn and retain new skills, our team constantly monitors their progress and adjusts our treatment strategies to help optimize their greatest potential. Essential Speech and ABA Therapy adheres to modern standards of ABA, Speech, and Occupational Therapy. Our facilities use evidence-based practices, which provide holistic, quality care that utilizes the most up-to-date research and knowledge in the field.
Applied Behavior Analysis (also referred to as ABA) is a therapy based on the science of learning and behavior. ABA therapy utilizes several evidence-based practices to increase communication skills and deter interfering behaviors.
Skills ABA Therapy Can Support
ABA therapy uses several strategies (such as Positive Reinforcement) to teach the above skills.
Positive Reinforcement
At Essential Speech and ABA Therapy, we use a strategy called Positive Reinforcement. In Positive Reinforcement, a therapist identifies a goal behavior. When a child successfully repeats the goal behavior, they are rewarded. Positive rewards encourage the child to continue using their newly acquired skills. Over time, this leads to meaningful behavioral change.
Speech therapy can be used to treat language disorders, speech disorders, and swallowing problems. For children on the spectrum, speech therapy can address many communication-related challenges and provide benefits that improve their quality of life as they age.
There are five key benefits to speech therapy:
Expressing wants and needs:
Your speech therapist will work closely with your child to help them advocate for themselves. Nonverbal children will learn sign language, gestures, picture boards, or AAC devices.
Recognize verbal and nonverbal cues:
An SLP will help your child interpret body language, facial expressions, gestures, and initiate communication without prompting.
Develop friendships and interact with peers:
Speech therapy helps children socialize, understand casual conversation, and build friendships.
Articulate words and sentences well:
SLPs help children produce correct sounds, use proper words, and understand abstracts
Understanding and processing language:
SLPs help children follow directions, understand concepts like colors, sizes, and prepositions, and comprehend stories or conversations.
Occupational therapy helps children with ASD promote, maintain, and develop the skills needed for school and beyond. These may include:
After your child’s initial assessment, our OTs will identify several key areas for improvement. These may include, but are not limited to: independent dressing, eating, grooming, and fine motor skills. Together with our BCBAs and SLPs, our OTs craft individualized care plans that help children with ASD thrive in any environment. Our OTs meet regularly with family members and program staff to review progress or adjust goals if needed.
Bright, Child-Friendly Environments That Mirror Natural Settings
Clinics are thoughtfully designed to be open, bright, and reflective of real learning environments rather than isolated therapy rooms, which helps with generalization and comfort.
Your child receives evidence-based therapies all in one clinic, ensuring coordinated, personalized care rather than fragmented services across separate providers.
Designed specifically for ages 18 months to 6 years with full-time early intervention that helps give children a meaningful head start toward independence.
Our approach includes parent training with a BCBA so you’re empowered with strategies that extend learning beyond the clinic.
Parents consistently report clear, patient, and professional communication in a supportive environment that treats families like partners, not just clients.
We can help you understand options, insurance, and how to get started with an evaluation.
Essential Speech and ABA Therapy offers a unique setting for children with ASD to receive services via Natural Environment Teaching (also called NET). By maximizing NET opportunities, our learners are immersed in different settings to encourage the generalization of their newly learned skills to natural environments (such as their school or the local community). For example, your child will learn how to eat and interact in a large group setting, interact with other children in the classroom, kick a soccer ball in the gym, and more!
Essential Speech and ABA Therapy also plans several community events throughout the year. Contact your nearest location to see what they have on deck!
Getting Started Is Simple
First, simply contact the location nearest you. Have all the important information for your child ready, including name, date of birth, diagnosis, physician information, insurance information, and therapy history.
Then, come in to meet our treatment team to complete an evaluation. A full treatment program will be developed, designed entirely around your child’s needs.
Once the plan is approved by insurance and you pick a start date, we can begin getting your child in-facility and get to work!