Get Involved!
Parental involvement plays an essential role in a children’s success in ABA and helps children generalize skills across different settings and individuals. We offer parent training and caregiver coaching services to help caregivers learn the same therapeutic methods that our specialists use.
Parent Training
At Jigsaw, we never lose sight of the significant role you have to play in your child’s development.
Whether, you receive online or centre-based in-person coaching, our methods and goals remain the same. We’ll coach you on how to develop and implement ABA teaching tools and strategies that are most appropriate for your child, as well as help you recognize the many teachable moments in your child’s everyday life. This is to provide consistency in the child’s learning. Children excel in their learning when there is consistency in everyone’s teaching.
Our Approach for both In-Person and Online Coaching
- Skills-Based Assessment: This is where we get to know you, the parents and caregivers, as well as your child or children. We observe, collect information (through interviews and questionnaires), and compile a profile of your child’s individualized strengths and needs.
- Setting Goals: This is a collaborative effort between the BCBA and the parents that will help set the goals and objectives you want to achieve through the coaching sessions – whether online or in person.
- Customized Treatment Plan: Based on the goals and benchmarks, the BCBA will develop and outline a customized treatment plan for you – parents, caregivers – and your child/children. It is important to note that these treatment plans aren’t static. Modifications to the treatment plan may be recommended as a result of ongoing observation, as well as feedback from the parents and caregivers themselves.
- Ongoing Observation and Treatment Planning: The treatment plan and coaching sessions, whether online or in person, will be monitored by the BCBA to ensure continued success and development of the plan and the sessions themselves.
- Transition Planning: The goal of our coaching is to empower people with the skills and practices that will help families live their best lives. Transition Planning involves determining the level of mastery you and your children have achieved in each skill and practice, along with providing you with the tools and advice regarding how to maintain everything you’ve learned during your coaching sessions.
IN ADDITION, NOT INSTEAD
Parent Coaching ensures Parents and Caregivers can get the support they need, when and where they need it, in real time.
It is also important to note that Parent Training service has been designed to complement our Comprehensive and Focused ABA programs, not replace them. Children excel in their learning when there is consistency in everyone’s teaching.