In response to these uncertain times, All Behaviour Consultancy has created ‘ABC Connect‘. ABC Connect is a platform where we aim to assist families through online video services. Families will have the opportunity to have a range of different packages to support them from a distance, including regular consultations and parent training. As parents, all we want is to have unlimited time with our children where we don’t have to worry about having to leave…
As a parent of a child with learning difficulties, or a child that has been diagnosed with autism, or is perhaps going through the process of diagnoses, you may feel you are facing many challenges. One of them is deciding how to best support your child and this is how you most likely came across this blog. So if your question is ‘’What might an early ABA programme for my child look like’’, continue reading.…
I founded All Behaviour Consultancy on the premise that all individuals who require support with social, emotional and behavioural needs to be able to access evidence based therapy, irrespective of their socioeconomic background. As a team we have continued to build on this mission. I have had an incredible summer planning our collaboration with a fantastic Deputy Headteacher. Starting Monday 2nd September we will be piloting School Wide Positive Behaviour Intervention Support for the upcoming…
On Wednesday 19th Sept Kirsty Angel and Georgiana Koyama attended the Accept Identify Move (AIM) Training with Dr Mark Dixon in London. We wanted to attend AIM training to increase our support to individuals that we work with, as well as our team. Mindfulness and Acceptance and commitment Therapy(ACT) underpins the AIM curriculum.The one thing that resonated with us right at the start of the morning is that children and adults who are able to…
April is Autism Awareness month. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder and is characterised by delays in development of social, language and communication skills. Other common neurodevelopmental disorders include Attention Deficit Hyperative Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia. As we have seen the assessment and support for children with neurodevelopmental disorders grow over the past years (Constantino & Charman, 2016), we wanted to the highlight the importance of assessments for adults who may be have not been diagnosed…
What is Precision Teaching and how ABC will be using it? After attending an inspirational workshop about Precision Teaching, given by Tracey Mapp and Thanos Vostanis from the Tizard Center at Kent University , we are very excited to begin using the principles of Precision Teaching and the Standard Celeration Chart (SCC) with some of the individuals we support at of All Behaviour Consultancy. Precision Teaching focuses on four main principles which are The child/learner…
What’s going on at The Academy Union Club We were really pleased to welcome our members back for our 2nd week at the Social Skills group. The members were really pleased to see the rules they had developed been transformed into posters and stuck on the door on arrival. All actually stuck to the rules without any prompting. The power of visual support! Plus rules are much easier to stick to when you make them…
The Bean Club We kicked off week 1 of our social skills club for children with social, communication and emotional difficulties by supporting the members to introduce themselves to the group. As we know that children with language difficulties can find it easier to express themselves through pictures, we encouraged members to draw a picture of what they were good at or what they wanted to improve. They enjoyed sitting around the table drawing and…
Welcome to the Academy Union Club We had fun meeting the members of our social skills club. After introductions we kicked off our session by asking members to brainstorm a name for the club (let’s face it social skills group is so not cool). All of them came up with really good ideas and at the end they voted for ”THE ACADEMY UNION CLUB”, which is now the official name of the club. Our next…
What we do on Saturdays. For the last 15 weeks All Behaviour Consultancy has been supoorting Focus West London Saturday Club. Getting up on a Saturday morning to go to work after a full week supporting families, schools, adults in community based and residential based settings is tough. Each week we wonder if we have the energy, if our brains will work, if we are going to be able to give our best to volunteers…
“Parents of children with suspected autism are having to wait at least 44 months for diagnosis, prompting a cross-party group of more than 140 MPs to write to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, demanding urgent action”, taken from an article in the Guardian. Read the full article here. How many more findings like this is it going to take for the Government to accept that just as early diagnosis for many other medical and neurological…
What’s going on at ABC: Focus West London started last Saturday! We are extremely excited to be welcoming our 3rd cohort of children and families. Focus families will be supported by our Behaviour Analysts Georgiana Koyama and Kirsty Angel and our ABA Supervisor Eimear Kelly. Click Here for Details Kirsty recently attended a 1 day conference with Bobby Newman and Daniel Mruzek in Edinburgh, we’ll be sharing what she learnt on our website shortly so…