Services
Telehealth Services: Intensive Behavior Support
Our Intensive Behavioral Services are customized to meet each child’s unique needs through telehealth, making therapy accessible, consistent, and effective from the comfort of your home.
We focus on supporting skill development in key areas, including:
Communication
Play and leisure skills
Self-care and safety skills
Social interactions
Our goal is to empower your child by expanding their behavioral repertoire, helping them build the skills necessary for greater independence across all areas of life.
Using Positive Behavior Support (PBS) strategies, we address and reduce challenging behaviors across settings—whether at home, during virtual learning, or in the community. By identifying the underlying function of each behavior, we teach your child more appropriate and effective ways to get their needs and wants met.
Through compassionate, evidence-based care, our telehealth model ensures that families receive the same high-quality support and guidance as they would in person—safely, flexibly, and consistently.
Parent Education
At Empowered Behavior Solutions, we firmly believe that family members are essential partners in each child’s journey to success. That’s why we place a strong emphasis on actively involving parents and caregivers in every step of the program.
We design person-centered programs that increase your understanding of how to best support your child by teaching positive behavior support strategies. These strategies include:
Proactive techniques to prevent challenging behaviors
Teaching methods to build new skills
Reactive approaches to respond effectively when challenges arise
Our goal is to empower you with practical tools and confidence so you can help your child thrive both at home and beyond.
By working together, we create a collaborative environment where parents feel supported and equipped to foster meaningful growth and success.
Early Start Support
Our Early Start Services are designed to address the unique social, sensory, motor, and communication needs of infants and toddlers during this critical developmental period.
We place a strong emphasis on parent education and empowering caregivers to implement effective strategies at home. By partnering closely with families, we help take full advantage of this crucial stage to promote positive behavioral growth.
Through early intervention, we aim to support your child’s development and empower parents—one behavior at a time.
Social Skills Groups
Our Social Skills Groups provide fun, natural, and supportive learning opportunities for children with developmental needs to build meaningful peer interactions.
By integrating social skills groups into individualized programs, we address each child’s unique social challenges in a setting designed to promote positive engagement with peers of the same age.
We use cooperative arrangements to encourage appropriate social behaviors and offer natural reinforcement—for both our clients and their peers—making learning both enjoyable and effective.
Additionally, these groups are an excellent resource to help children generalize and maintain newly learned or existing social skills across different environments.
School Based Services
Empowered Behavior Solutions partners with school districts and SELPAs to provide effective behavioral support tailored to students’ individual needs. Using evidence-based strategies such as Positive Behavior Support (PBS), we help students overcome behavioral challenges and access their educational plans within the least restrictive environment.
Our team conducts thorough Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) to identify specific areas of need and determine the most appropriate interventions and level of support—whether that’s 1:1 behavior aide assistance or consultative services.
All services are overseen and guided by our experienced Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) to ensure treatment integrity and positive student outcomes.
RBT 40-Hour Training
As part of our onboarding process, Empowered Behavior Solutions provides the required 40-hour Registered Behavior Technician (RBT™) training, complete with a certificate of completion to submit to your supervising BCBA.
During this comprehensive training, our BCBAs will:
Guide you through the RBT™ Task List, 2nd Edition
Present real-life scenarios to help you apply the concepts in practical settings
Facilitate interactive discussions and hands-on learning
At the conclusion of the training, you will complete a 20-question quiz designed to assess your understanding and readiness to support clients effectively.
Our goal is to ensure you feel confident and well-prepared to deliver high-quality ABA services under BCBA supervision.
Consultation for Parents
Empowered Behavior Solutions offers personalized consultation services for parents to provide guidance, support, and practical strategies tailored to your family’s needs.
Our consultation services include:
Identifying specific areas of need
Phone or telehealth check-ins
Developing individualized strategies
Reviewing and adjusting existing programs
Parents may benefit from behavioral consultation if:
Their child does not qualify for individualized ABA services
Their child has mild behavioral needs
They want to expand their parenting skills and strategies
No matter your situation, we’re here to support you with expert guidance to help your child and family thrive.
Methodologies
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is a structured teaching method designed to simplify and individualize instruction to enhance children’s learning. It is especially effective for addressing social, communication, academic, and self-help challenges commonly associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
DTT is particularly useful for teaching new behaviors—skills the child has not yet acquired—and new discriminations, such as responding correctly to different instructions.
At its core, DTT uses the three-term contingency model:
Antecedent (A): The instruction or prompt given
Behavior (B): The child’s response
Consequence (C): The reinforcement or feedback provided
Complex tasks are broken down into small, manageable steps, which are taught gradually and practiced repeatedly until mastery is achieved. The process is highly structured and focuses on reinforcing correct responses to promote skill acquisition across developmental areas.
In addition to building new skills, DTT also targets reducing challenging behaviors, making it a comprehensive approach to support children’s growth.
Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS)
Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS) is an evidence-based framework designed to improve quality of life by addressing challenging behaviors through three key components:
Proactive Strategies
Teaching Strategies
Reactive Strategies
These components are tailored through a thorough Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA), which identifies the underlying functions of behaviors that may interfere with a child’s success and well-being.
PBS focuses on teaching replacement behaviors that serve the same function as challenging behaviors, helping clients communicate and interact more effectively.
Proactive strategies aim to reduce the likelihood of challenging behaviors by modifying the environment and preventing triggers.
Teaching strategies help clients learn alternative, more appropriate behaviors using methods such as Functional Communication Training, Differential Reinforcement, and reinforcement systems.
Reactive strategies are applied when challenging behaviors occur and are designed to respond appropriately based on the behavior’s function—whether for gaining attention, escaping or avoiding demands, accessing tangible items, or sensory needs.
By addressing the root causes of behaviors, PBS helps clients develop adaptive communication skills and promotes prosocial behaviors, improving their ability to get their needs met in positive, effective ways.
Verbal Behavior
Verbal Behavior is an approach that breaks down language into its fundamental functions, helping individuals—especially those with autism—learn language by connecting words with their specific purposes.
This method focuses on teaching language as a set of verbal operants, each serving a unique role in communication:
Mand: Requesting or asking for something
Echoic: Repeating what is heard
Tact: Labeling or commenting on the environment
Intraverbal: Responding to questions or conversational prompts
Autoclitic: Modifying or qualifying other verbal behaviors to add meaning
By targeting these components, Verbal Behavior therapy encourages meaningful and functional communication tailored to the learner’s needs.
Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT®)
Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT®) is a naturalistic, evidence-based intervention model derived from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that targets pivotal areas of a child’s development, including:
Motivation
Responsivity to multiple cues
Self-management
Social initiations
These pivotal behaviors serve as foundational skills, enabling learners with developmental needs to make broad and generalized improvements across communication, social, and behavioral domains.
Natural Environment Teaching (NET)
PRT® is delivered primarily through Natural Environment Teaching (NET), which applies ABA principles within your child’s everyday settings—such as home, school, community spaces, or family gatherings.
By manipulating the natural environment, NET creates opportunities for your child to demonstrate and practice skills in real-life contexts. This approach encourages functional communication, such as requesting preferred items and meeting needs, as well as engaging in joint attention with others.
How PRT® Works
PRT® focuses on increasing a child’s motivation to engage and learn by embedding intervention in natural settings like home, community, and school. A key part of our approach is parent education, empowering families to become active agents of intervention and integrate learning throughout daily routines.
Key Components of PRT® Sessions
During sessions, our clinicians implement the seven core components of PRT®:
Shared control — balancing who directs the activity
Contingent reinforcement — providing rewards directly related to the child’s behavior
Child’s attention — ensuring the child is focused on the task
Multiple cues — teaching the child to respond to a variety of stimuli
Reinforcer attempt — encouraging attempts to gain reinforcement
Interspersal maintenance tasks — mixing mastered skills with new targets
Natural reinforcers — using real-world rewards that naturally follow the child’s behavior
Parent Education/Behavioral Skills Training
At Empowered Behavior Solutions, we ensure parents can confidently and accurately implement recommended strategies through competency-based training.
This approach involves parents practicing skills until they reach a defined level of proficiency. Clear performance criteria guide when and how these skills should be performed, and parents receive immediate feedback throughout the process. Training is considered complete only when parents meet the established criteria.
Competency-based training includes the following steps:
Precise Description of the Skill: Clear explanation of what the skill entails
Written Overview: A brief written summary of the skills to be taught
Modeling the Skill: Demonstration of the skill by the trainer
Video Modeling: Use of video examples to illustrate the skill
Role Playing: Practice through simulated scenarios
Observation: Watching the parent perform the skill during training
Immediate Feedback: Constructive feedback is provided right away
Repetition: Practice continues until mastery is achieved
This structured and supportive training ensures parents are fully prepared to support their child’s growth effectively.