Family First Autism Therapy

Our family first approach gives you access to high-quality autism therapy in Orange County and Los Angeles County..

High-Quality ABA

Our award-winning team delivers the highest quality applied behavior analysis (ABA) programs for your child.  We program our treatment as a family unit to ensure that the skills learned, continue well beyond our time with you.

All treatment programs are overseen by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs).

In-Home, In-Clinic, Teletherapy - Autism Therapy

If you are looking for autism therapy we can work with your family to provide in-home, in-clinic, and remote teletherapy for applied behavior analysis and combinations of all three that work best for your child and family’s schedule.

If you are interested in in-clinic therapy, our clinic is conveniently located in Fountain Valley off the 405 and Warner Avenue. 

Other Autism Services Provided by Advanced Behavioral Health

The collaborative efforts of our interdisciplinary team will result in the design of intervention activities that promote development in all of the following areas according to the basic principles of child growth and development: 

• Physical development (gross and fine motor)
• Cognitive development
• Language and speech development
• Social-emotional development (social/play skills)
• Self-help and feeding

Advanced Behavioral Health provides an interdisciplinary infant/toddler program to meet your child’s needs. Through the collaboration of our specialists, we implement a unique program that includes speech therapy, occupational therapy or physical therapy, and ABA therapy. The goal of the interdisciplinary infant/toddler program is to address the developmental delays your child may be experiencing.

Collaborative Team

The collaborative efforts of our interdisciplinary team result in the design of intervention activities that promote development in all of the following areas according to basic principles of child growth and development: 

• Physical development (gross and fine motor)
• Cognitive development
• Language and speech development
• Social-emotional development (social/play skills)
• Self-help and feeding.

Flexible Approach

Advanced Behavioral Health is able to provide treatment in-home, in-clinic, in-school or via remote teletherapy. Depending on your child’s needs, your child may work one on one with a therapist or attend our group setting in our clinic.

Interdisciplinary Program Benefits

The benefit of the interdisciplinary program is the unique ability for all specialties - Applied Behavior Analysis, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Therapy to collaborate together and develop and adjust programming based on your child and the progress they make. We use a whole child model to provide the highest quality program for our clients.

Your child may have been recommended to receive a developmental evaluation or you may have concerns about your infant/toddler’s development and expressed this to your pediatrician or your service coordinator.

What is a Developmental Evaluation?

At Advanced Behavioral Health, a developmental evaluation is conducted by a team of specialists that may include a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Licensed Speech and Language Pathologist (CCC-SLP), Occupational Therapist (OTR/L), Physical Therapist (PT), and a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT).  

Our team will meet with you and your child to identify your infants’ or toddlers’ unique strengths and needs and the services appropriate to meet those needs.  The evaluation will also include the identification of family resources, priorities, and concerns regarding the development of the infant or toddler and the supports and services necessary to enhance the family’s capacity to meet the developmental needs if the infant or toddler is eligible. 

A thorough evaluation will include a combination of these methods:

• Formal Tests
• Parent Interview and Sharing
• Parent Questionnaires
• Informal Observation and Assessment
• Clinical Opinion

Developmental evaluations will address the following areas:

1. Cognition- the acquisition of learning through ongoing interactions with the environment, this involves perceiving, thinking, problem-solving, and remembering information.
2. Communication - the acquisition of expressive and/or receptive language skills which include understanding and/or using any of the following: gestures, facial expression, speech reading, sign language, body postures, and vocal and visual contacts with another person.
3. Motor - Fine motor means the use of muscles that control small detailed movements of the body, as an example, in the hand related to manual dexterity and coordination.  Gross motor means the use of large muscle groups of the body, arms, or legs, as in sitting up, walking, or balancing.
4. Adaptive - the acquisition of skills that are required to meet environmental demands, this includes but is not limited to, activities of self-care, such as dressing, eating, toileting, self-direction, environmental problem solving and attentional/arousal.
5. Social-Emotional - the acquisition of capacities for human relationships, emotional expression, communication, and learning.  Social or emotional development is based on the motivation to engage in positive interaction and to sustain personal relationships and precedes the development of effective coping skills, self-esteem, and the ability to take advantage of opportunities for learning.  The difference in temperament, self-regulation, range and intensity of affect and modulating one’s response to the environment are additional factors influencing social or emotional development.