Tikvah Center provides engaging and cutting-edge research-based services to individuals across all walks of life. Our services remain committed to adhering to our organizational values. Through our activities, we strive to show our values in the areas of community, connection, and compassion. Services are provided virtually, in the participant’s home, community, and or school setting. Tikvah Center is committed to respecting the values regarding service delivery approaches of those we serve. It is paramount that when participants elect our services, our plans are collaboratively adopted. We offer assessment and program services. Our programs are participant-centered and characterized by the following:
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- Participants’ data and the best available research inform planning, decisions, and methods.
- Methods are clear, explicit, and systematically presented, enabling a focus on effectiveness.
- Progress is measured regularly, precisely, and practically to allow responsive traction toward participants’ achievement.
- Programs are engaging and provide plenty of learning opportunities for active practice to support participant outcomes.
Assessments
Assessments conducted are standardized, criterion-references, individualized skills, academic assessments, functional behavior assessments (FBA), functional analyses for Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE), Medical Necessity for ABA-based services, or general caregiver, student, and educator information. The utility of these assessments is paramount: to better understand an individual’s or child’s adaptive, developmental, and skill levels across domains and help plan future interventions.
[Note: Diagnostic testing resulting in medical, psychological, or educational diagnosis is not provided.]
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Early Years (0-3) / Pre-K – 12 Enrichment
Early Years (0-3) / Pre-K – 12 Enrichment programs are educational and or recreational activities for caregivers of children 0-3 years old, caregivers, and students Pre-K-12 that are homeschooled and traditionally schooled.
Enrichment, Training, & Coaching
Caregiver Training, & Coaching programs are for caregivers of children 0-3 years old and Pre-K-12 that are homeschooled and traditionally schooled.
Educator Training, & Coaching programs include workshops and intensive competency, and outcome-oriented educator and caregiver development and support sessions.
Some topics we cover in our Enrichment, Training, & Coaching Programs: educational approaches; evidence-based interventions and teaching; unique and neurodiverse learners; child development and learning; parent and caregiver support strategies; staff training in evidence-based approaches; making sense of assessments, IEEs, and IEPs.
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Instructional & Treatment
Instructional & Treatment programs use ABA strategies, employ research-based strategies, are individualized based on the learner’s initial assessment and needs, and regularly monitor progress.
Instructional programs are informed by an understanding of learning outcomes and instructional design and embody characteristics of explicit instruction (e,.g., Direct Instruction curricula).
Treatment programs respond to a learner and caregiver’s socially significant needs to teach pro-social, adaptive, and meaningful skills and reduce concerning behaviors.
Some of our Instructional and Treatment programs aim to teach: early language development; reading to new, early level, and remedial readers; teaching basic math facts to fluency; writing (penmanship and expressive writing); goal-setting, organization, planning, time management, and study skills; problem solving skills (ThinkMasters TAPS).
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ThinkMasters TAPS
The purpose of ThinkMasters is to teach students a collaborative Talk Aloud Problem Solving (TAPS) approach while working through visual-spatial games, brainteasers, and logic puzzles to sharpen students’ critical thinking skills for more than just Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The goal is to empower students to demonstrate grit and persistence when presented with unknown problems, be active and encouraging peer-partner, practice critical thinking skills, and improve performance in solving problem sets. ThinkMasters students work in a same-grade-level pair consisting of two students. The student pairs practice generative problem-solving skills as they advance through a series of sequenced games and logic puzzles. The ThinkMasters program is 10 weeks long, 3 sessions per week, and each session is 1 hour in length.
Sign-up now. Limited Availability! Two-student pairs of the same grade level need to sign up together. If you have only one student, we will try and match your student to a peer, if available.
Cost of the program per student for Summer 2022: $1599.00.
Ask about our Early Registration Discount. Must sign-up by May 1st or earlier.
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ABA & Autism
- 2007: American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that “children who receive early intensive behavioral treatment have been shown to make substantial, sustained gains in IQ, language, academic performance, and adaptive behavior as well as some measures of social behavior.”
- 2008: MIND Institute concluded “the strength of the findings from the four best-designed, controlled studies…” ABA is “well-established” for improving intellectual performance of young children with ASD.
- 2009: National Autism Center (NAC) reviewed 775 educational and behavioral treatment studies between 1957 and the fall of 2007 literature; only 11 met the highest standards, and all 11 were based on a foundation of behavior analysis
ABA Interventions
- Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) or Comprehensive Behavior Treatment for Young Children (CBTYC) for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities across the lifespan. EIBI, CBTYC, and Focused & Individualized services are guided by Applied behavior analysis (ABA). Our ABA-based programs are delivered in the home, community, and or the school setting. Individualized goals and objectives are derived from ongoing observation and assessments. Each program (i.e., Treatment Plan) is designed according to the needs of the individual and uses a combination of research-based strategies that effectively address skill acquisition and reduction of concerning behaviors based on principles of learning, behavior, and motivation. The methods and goals are assessed regularly for efficacy and modified accordingly. Our commitment is to employ strategies that are collaboratively adopted, supported by research, effective for the learner, and appropriate to the skill or behavioral goal.
[Note: Currently, these services and referred out and we are no longer accepting new clients.] - Focused & Individualized ABA-based services for individuals characterized “at risk,” with learning disabilities and or behavioral challenges, or simply students interested in learning new skills.
[Note: Currently, these services and referred out and we are no longer accepting new clients.]
ABA Overview
- Behavior Analysis is the science of behavior.
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), relies on the science of behavior to improve socially significant behaviors.
- ABA-based practitioners focus on why do people do what they do, and how can they impact change to help those they serve.
- ABA is NOT just for individuals with autism. Behavior is going on all of the time, people are engaging in behavior all around us and ABA technologies can help in a multitude of situations for many different individuals.
- ABA research has demonstrated effectiveness in many areas such as: teaching skills to individuals with Down’s Syndrome, teaching academic skills to children without disabilities, sports, behavior systems analysis and organizational behavior management in businesses, higher-education teaching practices, behavioral pharmacology, medication adherence, clinical behavior analysis, ecological and environmental sustainability, etc.