by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
Most supervisors inherit a session note form. Fewer inherit the reasoning behind it. The template arrives in an onboarding folder, the team has used it for years, and the first real conversation about it happens when a review turns up notes that are complete but not...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
A visual schedule usually arrives at the point where talking has stopped working. The morning runs in the same order every day, and every step still needs an adult standing nearby to say it out loud. So a strip of pictures goes up on the wall, and for a few weeks the...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
A respite evening, a weekend with a grandparent, a week when a caregiver is recovering from surgery: each one is a short, defined window rather than a permanent change. The person covering care may know the child well and still not know the order of the bedtime...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
A note about how the morning went is easy to start and easy to abandon. Most families who are asked to keep track of routines between ABA sessions begin with good intentions: a notebook on the counter, a note on the phone, a plan to remember. Two weeks later the pages...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
Somewhere between the intake call and the first school meeting, the paperwork turns into a roll call. A BCBA who writes the plan, an RBT who runs most of the sessions, a speech-language pathologist, an occupational therapist, a classroom teacher, a case manager, a...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
Families often search for “school home ABA coordination” after a teacher and a BCBA describe the same goal in two very different ways. Nothing is wrong with either description. The two teams answer to different documents, different reporting dates, and...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
Somewhere in the week before an IEP or IFSP meeting, the folder comes out. A pediatric report, a progress summary from the ABA team, a draft document with sections nobody has explained, and a table with eight names on it. The hour that follows is often the only hour...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
Two different records usually reach a family in the same packet: a note describing what happened around a behavior, and a summary of how a skill is coming along. Both get called data, and that shared word is where most of the confusion starts. Most of what people...
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
A developmental evaluation often lands on the calendar before a family feels ready for it. A pediatrician raises a concern, a teacher mentions something that has been noticed for months, or a parent finally puts a name to a pattern that has been there all along....
by striveabaconsultants | Nov 5, 2026 | ABA Therapy
A school team says the district will run an FBA. An intake coordinator says the next step is an ABA treatment assessment. Both sentences arrive in the same week, sometimes in the same phone call, and neither one comes with a plain explanation of what will actually...
