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THE LODEN
GROUP
Habilitation –
ABA
Intensive
DDD Service
Goals
To enable the consumer to acquire knowledge
and skills and be a valued member of his/her community based on
his/her own choices.
To provide training to increase or maintain
the consumer’s self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to
reside and participate successfully with his/her family in his/her
own community.
To assist the consumer in achieving and
maintaining a quality of life that promotes the consumer’s vision of
the future.
Additional
Loden Group Service Goals
To provide clients a highly effective
ABA
program including initial assessment and individual program training
to providers and families.
To provide ongoing oversight, support and
training to families and providers to help them be the most
effective they can be in implementing the ABA
program.
To regularly review and update programs based
on skill acquisition.
THE LODEN GROUP’S COMMITMENT OF SERVICES
BEYOND DDD and Method of
Implementation
1. 2-hour initial assessment of
child with parent(s)/guardian(s) including family interview and
hands-on testing of child. Assessment will NOT take
place until The Loden Group office has received authorized service
hours through the FOCUS system, and a copy of your child’s current
ISP.
2.
2-hour in-home individualized program training including
initial program book set-up.
3.
Ongoing consultation meetings based on number of hours
utilized by family. Frequency of meetings varies based on number of
habilitation hours utilized and location of
meetings:
Meetings
Meetings
Habilitation Hours Used
At Loden Office
In-Home
80+ hours per month:
Monthly Every
8 weeks*
60-79 hours per month:
Every 6 weeks
Quarterly*
40-59 hours per month:
Every 8 weeks
Every 4 months
*Families that don’t want to come to the
office every visit can have the option of coming to the office one
month (80+ hours) and in-home the next which would still be in-home
every 8 weeks, but with an added visit in between. The same would
follow for 6 weeks/Quarterly and 8 weeks/4
months.
For families utilizing less than 40 hours per month of
habilitation, we suggest following the Traditional Habilitation
program as less than 10 hours per week of habilitation is not enough
for an effective ABA program. ABA programs
are based on intensive hours and multiple opportunities for
structured learning. By structured learning, we do not mean table
and chairs “discrete trail” teaching alone, but a combination of
“DTT,” embedded trials and learning in the natural environment. By
structured we mean an intensive plan with goals broken down into
small achievable steps with mass opportunity for practice and
acquisition. Ultimately, trying to follow an intensive ABA program
with less than 10 hours per week is unfair to the children and in
some cases, causes more behaviors than it helps.
In the case that less
than 40 hours per month of habilitation are being utilized because
The Loden Group and/or the family have been unsuccessful at finding
providers to implement services, we will work with the family to
form a modified ABA program to keep the intensity without the
frustration for the children. Once new provider(s) join the team,
the program will return to “full strength.”
4.
Ongoing program review with feedback on a semi-monthly basis.
One of the commitments that families will make with this program is
to provide semi-monthly update reports. We will have both a
hard-copy form or access to an online system for submitting
progress. Families having internet access will be able to log in to
our site and enter notes on a daily, weekly, semi-monthly basis. The
more often notes are entered, the more often program managers are
able to provide feedback.
Recordkeeping and Reporting
Requirements
The habilitation provider shall submit monthly
progress reports, including a written summary describing the
specific service activities and the performance data that identifies
the client’s progress toward achievement of the established
objectives. The required data will take the form of
program-specific, opportunity/response data sheets kept at the
family home and program summary sheets (submitted with report).
THE LODEN GROUP will
send report to consumer’s support coordinator within ten business
days of the close of the
month.
THE
LODEN GROUP must maintain on file proof of hours worked by their
direct service staff, e.g., staff time sheets. Each document must be
initialed, dated and signed by the consumer/family/consumer’s
representative as verification of hours
served.
The
LODEN GROUP will send to the Support Coordinator the goals (program
objectives) and training strategies upon within 10 business days of
program implementation.
Parent Responsibilities to Implement an ABA
Program:
Training:
Attend 12-hour Loden Training. Current families with the
agency less than 6 months must go through the training. Families
with Loden longer than 6 months are invited to and urged to go
through training. Along with your providers, it is essential for
parents to have the knowledge and understanding of what an ABA program
is, what it looks like and what we are telling providers to do with
your child. Unfortunately we can not be in your home on a daily or
weekly basis. Therefore, we count on parents to be “team leaders”
and be sure providers are doing what they’re supposed to as well as
generalize what’s being learned during 1:1 habilitation out into the
home and community.
Assessment: A two-hour assessment at our office. Assessment will include
family input on priorities and goals and hands-on with client as
well as ISP goals. This assessment, unlike the Traditional program
delves deeper into specific developmental knowledge and skills
learning, learning styles and behavior reduction.
Attend in-home initial program training: Parents are
required to be at the initial in-home training. Training will be
scheduled at a time when your provider(s) can also be present so
that everyone is seeing the program manager model, get data and
documentation questions answered and sign off on the
goals.
Communication with The Loden Group: Write weekly notes
on online site or submit semi-monthly notes on Program Progress
form. For families utilizing the online site, a guideline for what
notes should include will be given and explained at initial program
training.
Participation in generalizing skills taught during
habilitation: Parents are their children’s most important teachers.
As such, parents implementing ABA programs should be greatly
involved. Parents will be responsible for no less than one hour of
data per week on skills being worked on in the natural environment
throughout the week. Your program manager will help you figure out
which programs/skills can be easily generalized outside of
habilitation. Data sheets will take the form of
“opportunity/response” data sheets which will ease some of the
data-taking responsibility.
Reviewing and helping to maintain program notebook:
Parents need to be reviewing their child’s progress no less than
twice per week. Parents will monitor progress and let their program
manager know when skills are being mastered and ensure that required
paperwork is in the program notebook and that providers are taking
appropriate data.
Attendance at no less than one topical seminar per
quarter: In order to continuously learn how to help their child,
parents are required to come to at least one monthly topic seminar
per quarter (but are invited to all). Seminar topics are picked
based on parent request and feedback. If you have a particular topic
that you are interested in, please email us and let us
know!
Parents choosing ABA-Intensive Habilitation
programming will sign a contract stating that they agree to the
commitment outlined above. In such case where a family is no longer
following the commitment or unable to make the commitment, we will
change the program to one of Traditional
Habilitation.
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