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ABOUT US
We are a values-driven in-home and center-based ABA provider residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado, serving clients from ages 2 to 18 years who have been diagnosed with autism, fetal alcohol and drug syndrome, Down’s syndrome, ADHD, and Emotional Behavioral Disorder. Our team of Board Certified Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians and Behavior Technicians are dedicated to helping individuals achieve functional independence across every environment. We teach with the understanding that there is no " one-size fits all or most" situation when it comes to individuals. Our team is committed to providing an experience that is rooted in the family's values and diverse cultural backgrounds.
The family and the learner are at the forefront of all that we do. From the intake through ongoing assessment, we program with what is valued by those closest to the learner and the learner as an individual. By focusing on strengths and what the child enjoys, we are able to provide meaningful and lasting change. As a company, we incorporate person-centered and trauma-informed principles that utilize Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT). Our one-on-one sessions provide neuro-affirming therapy in a safe and holistic approach to generalize across all meaningful environments. We are passionate about preparing our clients for situations both inside of the home and in their daily lives, whether that be school, grocery store, a friend's house, or a job interview. Supervised by our Board Certified Behavior Analysts, our Registered Behavior Technicians and Behavior Technicians provide one-on-one attention to each client in their environment, helping create changes in behavior that are functional and appropriate for them and their family. Our BCBAs work with the whole team, from caregivers to other service providers, by helping to explore new ways to set up the environment and how to respond to behaviors so that, as a whole, positive changes may occur. Through our practices and techniques, we have seen the methods of ABA be successful in a wide range of learning and behavioral disorders.
ABA Across Environments is currently accepting clients who are looking for a person-centered, trauma-informed and value-based approach to ABA and challenging behaviors. We accept a variety of different insurances, including Medicaid. Currently not accepting Tricare.
A Letter from our Owner
When Across Environments was established in 2018, my goal was to help bridge a gap that I saw in services in Colorado Springs. The greatest gap I continued to see was that skills were not generalizing unless they were explicitly taught in those areas and under the conditions of a very controlled environment.
Prior to moving to Colorado, I was lucky enough to have started working with a fantastic large corporation when I first started in ABA in California. My supervisors were thoughtful and passionate about not only generalizing across people and settings, but by actually taking the steps to program for generalization. I worked with clients in their homes, social skills groups in the community, and at school. I was privileged to be a part of that impactful change and felt it was my calling to bring those same practices to families in Colorado Springs. The services offered to families in this area are often outdated, stunted and not always individualized or with the client’s values and the family’s culture in mind. At Across Environments, we strive to do better.
We take that as a challenge for ourselves as an organization and as practitioners who carry a heavy weight of responsibility in helping improve the lives of others. We find that changing behavior has lasting effects when we focus less on the deficits and more on the strengths. Our clients are a part of their learning and behavior change process. In my experience, I have seen many companies use standardized assessments and programs that are incredibly limiting and very rarely meaningful for the family or client. These assessments and programs are usually geared and designed to help teach basic learning skills but that often results in reinforcing rote responding.
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ABA Across Environments builds upon the client’s current repertoire. We work with the client and their family in the areas where they would like to grow and learn more, as well as areas where they may need additional support to manage behaviors that may be determined as problematic. When we address problematic or barrier behaviors, we focus on what the client wants. We ask them questions when we can, and we observe to see how these behaviors have been shaped and how they can be systematically changed for the better, if they need to be. We find that many behaviors are a part of the client, and as long as they don’t interfere with the client’s ability to access a meaningful life, we don’t try to change those behaviors such as stemming or other automatically maintained behaviors. We work with clients based on what the need is and not the diagnosis or label.
Although we do intervene by using function-based interventions, we also understand that the four functions of behavior (tangible, attention, escape, and automatic) only account for environmental stimuli and not intrinsic yearnings. We program using not only the function that can be manipulated by outside stimuli (giving a toy, praising, removing a demand), but also for the client’s core yearning (belonging, coherence, feeling, orientation, chosen purpose, and competence) – that underlying and internal need helps feed our minds and inner wellbeing.
Meg Solomon, MS Ed, BCBA®, CEO and Owner of ABA Across Environments