Beehive ABA
Our Centre
Beehive ABA provides high quality ABA within our centre. We have 3 classrooms and each class have 3-6 learners at a time. We provide 2 hours per session for five days a week 48 weeks of the year. Each child has a tutor who they work with during their session, with a maximum of 2 tutors assigned to each child to ensure that they learn skills across people. The ABA tutors are all trained to a high quality and our BCBAs are alway there in person, so your child has regular, daily interaction with the BCBA. We also provide a parent meeting every 4-6 weeks to go through progress and provide any specific training to you the parent.
We have an enclosed garden space exclusively for our children and we can also access the forest grounds around our building. Locally nearby there are shops we can visit when the child is ready to focus on more functional skills such as following shopping lists or getting their hair cut.
The Beehive is founded on the vision that individuals affected by autism and other developmental disabilities have the right to effective education and behavioural services. Regardless of age, diagnosis, skills or barriers which impact day-to-day functioning, every learner is capable of learning new skills and increasing degrees of independence to allow an improved quality of life for the learner and their family.
Every learner is unique, and their ABA program should be individualised to account for specific needs, interests and motivation. Reducing barriers to learning and programming skill acquisition are prioritised by importance to the learner.
An experienced Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) oversee all our ABA programs. Involvement commences with a comprehensive assessment utilising assessment and curriculums most appropriate to the learner. Evaluation may include assessment of communication and social skills, problem behaviour reduction, academic skills as well as other important daily functioning skills.
The outcome of assessment is an individualised education plan (IEP) and outline of effective teaching procedures derived from peer reviewed empirical evidence that incorporates the principles of the science of behaviour analysis including Skinners Analysis of Verbal Behavior.
Generalising skills acquired through instruction across environments (home, nursery, school, community) and people (family, teacher, care providers) can lead to an improvement in the quality of life for all.
ABA programs are data driven to reliably account for and demonstrate changes in behaviour and progress. Visual displays through graphing will allow the BCBA supervising the program to review progress and make data-based decisions regarding any required programming changes.
Our principles
We believe that every learner has the potential to develop skills beyond their current level and should be free of behaviours and activities that cause injury, pain, or limit opportunities for full community involvement.
We aim to believe that as a priority communication skills and other skills that lead to rewarding personal relationships, well-being, vocational productivity, and self-determined daily activities should be targeted.
We will always rely on evidenced-based literature of the science of applied behaviour analysis and its underlying assumptions will lead to the best possible learner outcomes.
We believe that functional communication is the foundation that supports the development of skills in all areas and therefore B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behaviour and the supporting empirical work informs our treatment and instructional recommendations.
We use reliable data which are gathered and analysed on a schedule sufficient to make informed decisions is necessary to achieve the best outcomes for our learners.