Parent Coaching Services

Parent Coaching

If you are looking to understand more about your child’s learning and behavior or you want to find effective strategies to help make family life smoother and happier, our Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) clinicians provide individualized coaching to help you support your child with confidence. Topics may include:

• Understanding autism
• Understanding the basics of ABA, learning, and behavior change
• How to motivate and teach your child
• Increasing communication and other important skills
• Preventing and responding to challenging behavior
• Setting up successful daily routines
• Preparing for success during special events like holidays, birthday parties, haircuts, and medical appointments
• How to help you child address their fears and frustrations and build toleration skills without harmful “masking.”

Parent coaching packages are available to all families through private payment (no insurance required). Contact us today to find out more and schedule a free initial consultation.

All children receiving insurance-funded in-home ABA will receive weekly to monthly parent coaching as part of their child’s comprehensive programming.

The Balance Program is an in-home professionally guided parent-implemented approach to teaching young children important coping skills that reduce and prevent common challenging behaviors.

The Balance Program was designed by Dr. Kelsy Ruppel and Dr. Gregory Hanely for parents of children ages 3-6 who were recently diagnosed with autism. Autistic children are at higher risk for developing challenging behaviors and the Balance program aims to prevent that pattern. The Balance Program is also helpful for any family of young children with emerging challenging behavior, including those not diagnosed with autism. 

The goal of the Balance Program is to coach parents in teaching their children the communication, toleration, and cooperation skills necessary to bring family life into balance. Balance helps families establish a healthy give and take between some child-led time (doing what the child wants) and some parent-led time (doing what the parent wants). 

Many families with young children feel they are jumping through hoops trying to avoid the things that upset their child. Some parents feel that accomplishing basic daily activities with their child is a constant struggle. The Balance program takes a kind and compassionate approach to supporting parents and children to feel happy, relaxed, and engaged together while teaching children to self-advocate, build coping skills, and cooperate with necessary routines.

The Balance Program sessions consist of 10 lessons presented across 12-16 weeks in twice weekly in-home or virtual visits lasting 45-60 minutes. Sessions are led by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with expertise in early childhood learning and behavior. In between sessions, parents practice skills with their child twice per day for 5-10 minutes. 

The Balance program is not appropriate for children who engage in severe dangerous problem behavior. Please contact Clarity ABA for more information about alternative approaches for these children.

Clarity ABA has immediate openings for families interested in beginning the Balance Program.

Supporting Research:

An Evaluation of “Balance”: a Home-Based, Parent-Implemented Program Addressing Emerging Problem Behavior (wordpress.com) (Ruppel, K. W., Hanley, G. P., Landa, R. K., & Rajaraman, A. (2021).  See more at: Publications | Practical Functional Assessment