Applied Behavior Analysis

High quality ABA that follows best practices is compassionate, flexible, and naturalistic.  We have cultivated our skills for decades as a team to assure the best outcomes for our clients. Highly trained Applied Behavior Analysis clinicians continue to grow and evolve their practices here. 

Common Program Components:

  • Adaptive and self-care skills
  • Attending and social referencing
  • Cognitive functioning
  • Community participation
  • Coping and tolerance skills
  • Emotional development
  • Family relationships
  • Language and communication
  • Play and leisure skills
  • Pre-academic skills
  • Reduction of interfering or inappropriate behaviors
  • Safety skills
  • Self-advocacy and independence
  • Self-management
  • Social relationships
  • Vocational skills

Our clinicians use the following methodologies to guide our practice:

  • Routine-Based Interventions
  • Trauma-Informed ABA
  • Verbal Behavior
  • Pivotal Response Training
  • Natural Environment Teaching
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Mindfulness

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a scientific approach to improving socially significant behaviors. It is an empirically validated, long-standing method for changing human behavior. B.F. Skinner is known as one of the founding fathers of the field of Behavior Analysis. His work dates back to the 1930’s and was later developed into ABA by Ivar Lovaas in the 1960s.

Applied Behavior Analysis, also referred to as ABA, is based on evidenced-based scientific methods using the 7 dimensions. (Baer, Wolf, Risley, 1968) 

Clinicians assure treatment plans address all 7 dimensions:
1) Generality (assuring the behaviors generalize across people, environments, and time).
2) Effective (data and client feedback validates the effectiveness of the treatment).
3) Technological (interventions are to be designed with sufficient detail that can be replicated.)
4) Applied (ABA programs are created to add social significance to the individual and their families.)
5) Conceptually Systematic (that the intervention is research-based and represents principles of Applied Behavior Analysis.)
6) Analytic (Using data to make decisions.)
7) Behavioral (Measurable change in desired behavior)

How Much ABA?

Board Certified Behavior Analysts recommend the quantity of hours of an ABA program after they have completed a Functional Behavior Analysis or Assessment.  There is research that indicates best practices in outcomes are seen when there is a level of consistency and intensity within the program.  There are two type of programs: Focused ABA and Comprehensive ABA.

Focused ABA

Focused ABA addresses treatment provided directly to the client for a limited number of behavioral targets. Focused ABA is prescribed at 10-25 hours per week of direct treatment, plus direct and indirect supervision and caregiver training. This treatment can include increasing socially appropriate behavior or reducing problem behavior.

Focused ABA plans are appropriate for individuals who:

  • need treatment only for a limited number of key functional skills
  • have such acute problem behavior that its treatment should be the priority

Comprehensive ABA

Comprehensive ABA addresses treatment in multiple developmental domains, including: cognitive, communicative, social, emotional, and adaptive functioning.  Treatment focuses can include Early Intervention as well as maladaptive behaviors such as: elopement, tantrums, lack of compliance, aggressive and self-injurious behaviors.  Comprehensive ABA programs are prescribed at 30-40 hours of 1:1 direct treatment to the client per week, plus parent training, supervision, and other needed services. Younger children increase their ability to attend to sessions for longer durations over time.  Love 2 Learn uses many forms of Natural Environment Teaching so that these sessions feel like play to the client. Research findings regarding the intensity required to produce good outcomes supports Comprehensive ABA.

Research also shows time spent away from therapy may result in regression, increased costs and greater dependence on more intensive services across the life span.  Empowering parents, family members and other caregivers to manage problem behavior and to partake in supporting the plan is a critical component of this treatment model.​

Natural Environment Teaching

At Love 2 Learn quality ABA is compassionate, fun, structured and flexible. Natural Environment Teaching is a powerful component of an ABA program. Highly skilled therapists provide our clients with hundreds of opportunities per session to practice novel and mastered skills, without our learners ever knowing it. It looks and feels like play. This is what Natural Environment Teaching looks and feels like. 80% of all that we do needs to occur with ease. 20% can be skills in progress in order to achieve any learner’s best performance.  

Research also shows time spent away from therapy may result in regression, increased costs and greater dependence on more intensive services across the life span. Empowering parents, family members and other caregivers to manage problem behavior and to partake in supporting the plan is a critical component of this treatment model.​

Location Options

The truth is that ABA happens everywhere!  But the most common locations we provide services include:

Home

Tele-Health

School

Community

Clinic

Regions We Serve In California

Orange County
  • Aliso Viejo

  • Anaheim

  • Brea

  • Buena Park

  • Capistrano Beach

  • Corona Del Mar

  • Costa Mesa

  • Cypress

  • Dana Point

  • Foothill Ranch

  • Fountain Valley

  • Fullerton

  • Garden Grove

  • Huntington Beach

  • Irvine

  • La Habra

  • La Palma

  • Ladera Ranch

  • Laguna Beach

  • Laguna Hills

  • Laguna Niguel

  • Laguna Woods

  • Lake Forest

  • Los Alamitos

  • Midway City

  • Mission Viejo

  • Newport Beach

  • Newport Coast

  • Orange

  • Placentia

  • Rancho Santa Margarita

  • San Clemente

  • San Juan Capistrano

  • Santa Ana

  • Seal Beach

  • Silverado

  • Stanton

  • Sunset Beach

  • Surfside

  • Trabuco Canyon

  • Tustin

  • Villa Park

  • Westminster

  • Yorba Linda

LA County
  • Cerritos
  • Covina
  • Diamond Bar
  • La Habra Heights
  • La Mirada
  • La Verne
  • Lakewood
  • Long Beach
  • Norwalk
  • San Dimas
  • Signal Hill
  • Rowland Heights
Inland Empire
  •  Chino

  •  Chino Hills

  •  Clairmont

  •  Montclair

  •  Ontario

  •  Pomona

  •  Rancho Cucamonga

  •  Upland

San Diego
  • Cardiff

  •  Bonsall

  •  Camp Pendleton

  •  Carlsbad

  •  Carmel Valley

  •  Del Mar

  •  Encinitas

  •  Escondido

  •  Fallbrook

  • Kearny Mesa

  •  La Costa

  •  La Jolla

  •  Leucadia

  •  Mira Mesa

  •  Oceanside

  •  Pacific Beach

  •  Pala

  •  Rancho Bernardo

  • Rancho Penasquitos

  •  Rancho Santa Fe

  •  San Marcos

  •  Solana Beach

  •  Solana Beach

  •  Sorrento Valley

  •  University City

  •  Valley Center

  •  Vista

Orange County Pediatric Clinic:

 5762 Bolsa Avenue, Suite 100

Huntington Beach, CA 92649

Inland Empire Regional Office:

9431 Haven Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730

San Diego Regional Office:

2244 Faraday Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92008

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Andrea has experience working with children of all ages, but she found her passion in early intervention and childhood apraxia of speech.  Andrea has experience conducting speech/language evaluations, parent consultations 1:1 speech therapy sessions, group therapy sessions, and clinical supervision of students and assistants.  She is PROMPT trained, and has also taken additional educational courses in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and caregiver/family education and training.

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