Services Provided
Aspire provides services for children from the ages of twelve months to ten years of age. Read on to learn about how we can help your child get the best start in life so they can reach their potential.
Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision entails everything from setting up your child’s initial program and providing you with a detailed program folder, to assisting you with individual education plans or school observations. The type of Clinical Supervision depends on the individual program that suits your child and family. Services include;
- Program Management / Behaviour Management
- School Observations /consultation with schools
- Individual Education Plan (IEP) / Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) meetings and preparation of objective goals
- Incidental Consultation Services to families, pre-schools or Primary Schools
- Assessments
- Parent, (pre)school, and therapist training
The frequency of consultation depends on a mutually agreed upon number of hours and the availability of a program manager.
Therapy
At Aspire you have the option to recruit independent therapists that we will train, or we can recruit and train therapists for you.
We recommend your assigned program manager work one on one with your child, as we want to be familiar with your child’s learning style. Our program managers can do this during, or prior to team meetings, or regular one-on-one sessions in between team meetings, depending on their availability.
We currently employ therapists and senior therapists who will assist you with implementation of your child’s daily program. Please contact us for more information.
Practical Workshops
Aspire provides practical workshops or in-services for schools, pre-schools, parent groups, or government agencies. These workshops can be tailored specifically for any topic or can be chosen from a set number of topics:
- Introductory workshop “What is Autism?”
- Introductory workshop “What is ABA?”
- Introductory workshop “What is Verbal Behaviour?”
- Behaviour Management
- Discrete Trial Training
- Natural Environment Training
- Teaching your child to communicate with pictures, sign or words/text
- How to teach children with autism to play
- Intermediate workshop “Verbal Behaviour”
- Intermediate workshop “Contemporary ABA techniques”
If you are interested in any of the workshops listed above, or you would like Aspire to present a workshop specifically on a given topic please contact us.
Our Program
We provide a highly individualised program for each child in our program. After we conduct an initial assessment, and depending on your family’s and your child’s needs, we recommend a certain program for your child. The intensity of your child’s program can vary between two hours of therapy per week for our Family Support Program to forty per week for our early intensive intervention program.
Children that we provide services for
Aspire provides services for children from the ages of twelve months to ten years of age.
A diagnosis is not necessary to receive services. If you are concerned regarding the development of your child and you feel your child would benefit from a comprehensive approach that targets all developmental areas, Aspire can provide a program for you. Children with the following diagnoses may benefit specifically from our services:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Asperger’s Disorder
- Global Developmental Delay
- Language and Communication Difficulties
- Social Delays
- ADHD/ADD
- Downs Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome
- Nonverbal Learning Disorder
- Semantic Pragmatic Disorder
- Specific Language Impairment
- Other related difficulties
Aspire can help you and your child by offering services that will benefit your whole family. Contact us for an initial assessment at your home to see whether our services suit your needs and we can provide a program for your child.