Carla Edwards: so the family involvement is critical for us to be effective in intervention services our approach to family involvement involves a series of intentional conversations with our families and really getting them involved in the intervention process so what is the family’s desire for their child in the long term as well as the short term their input is invaluable to to what we work on during the day with the children that we serve we really focus on joyful action that everyone is successful and happy
Carla Edwards: and learning so part of what we do with our families is we bring them into the treatment center and we want them to feel at home here we want them to feel like they this is a place that is safe for not only their child to learn but for them to learn as well part of that involves going into the treatment center with our bcbas and our therapist observing their child participating in therapy and gaining coaching tips from our bcba another component of our parent training is to review the child’s
Carla Edwards: progress during what we call Family consultations we want to share the child’s progress with our families so that they can generalize that to the home settings BI has developed its own family framework and in this framework we take families through a journey of learning new things about autism ABA and specifically the their child part of a child’s success in An Early Intervention Program is US learning the strengths and weaknesses of the child in the Home and Community setting families are intrical
Carla Edwards: to that piece by bringing certain information maybe it’s videos maybe it’s stories of what happens at home bringing that to us and US brainstorming on possible solutions after we discuss Solutions then we actually Implement a program specific to that child and we help families learn successful ways of implementing that program in the home setting we want our families to know that we understand that this is a scary time and that you may be afraid and fearful of upcoming days we want to be that safe place where you can come and feel comfortable in our environment and we are here to support you and help you be successful
