Mental health support for families, parents, and siblings.
clear parent training carryover
Respite staff that are well trained, support from families with older children or adults, basic training on medication
Education in child development.
Quality Respite care
More support for respite in the home, community. More activities to provide their children on afterschool, weekends.
family training
ABA training and addressing managing that within their life setup
I think the town where I work needs more community awareness and resources
Counseling and group support.
More resources of what is available for them
Effective parents' training
More research.
Respite care, education on what autism and ABA are, resources to sibling groups, and more access to information about supports for adult clients once they age out of the school system.
Additional parent training, better information, and access to community resources available to them
Families can benefit from a parent training program. Increased collaboration and consistency across home, school, and outside services.
Caregiver training curricula, support groups, outings/events with others affected by autism,
Mental health therapy for parents
Information on a community of other families that are welcoming right after a diagnosis and that continue to provide support for one another with recommendations and information. Actual steps to take after a diagnosis that isn't just a diagnosis and sending them away to figure it out and offering grief support. And lastly, REASONABLE "parent training" - not a long BIP that must be implemented the entire time the child is home. Something reasonable and attainable that helps the family live more successfully together and helps the child grow.
Therapy or self-care practices
Counseling
How important follow through is
Help with managing sibling relationships. Also help coordinating getting other services in the area, including feeding therapy, talk therapy, OT, and Speech.
More awareness of evidenced based treatments. It's important that they understand that technology in and of itself does not constitute evidenced based treatments. So, one may use wearable technology to measure behavior, but research needs to be done on if that actually changes behavior or merely measure it.
Respite, education advocates
More funding through the NDIS to access appropriate intensity of therapy
Family support groups
Family support groups
More respite services, public schools that actually implement effective, intensive ABA programs
Effective collaboration builds around trust, adequate and appropriate feedback, flexibility to accommodate their constraints.
Counseling for families.
More services that work together
Support groups for parents and siblings. Community outreach providers. Job skills training.
Respite care
Coaching
OT & psych
Respite, better school supports, more centralized treatments
More local resources. I work in remote areas.
Help with developing detailed procedures for how to respond to behaviors in all the environments and an opportunity to practice the required skills in clinic first. Parent training is too much like attending a workshop and not enough BST
Respite care is often hard to come by. As a BCBA it is very hard for me to provide support due to funding constraints. often payers will not allot a great deal of time to parent training, or they will force me to do it in times when my RBTs are not working. This is crazy because if the RBT is at school or in the clinic with the child I cannot be at home working with the parent. I find many of my parents require legal advice that I cannot provide as a BCBA.
Training in behavioral interventions and understanding behavior.
More parent training as a foundation to their child’s treatment
Families need more mental health support
counseling/therapy to cope with being a parent or a child with a disability, support groups with other parents meeting often
Respite trained in ABA at least at the RBT level.
There seems to be a deficit in vocational skills training in our area. In addition to support groups.
Developmental training at relevant lifespan stages
ABA to target more functional based skills to do with daily living skills.
Funding for hours, training of paraprofessionals, more parent specific training/knowledge
Home and community support
Not sure
Knowledge from other providers of other disciplines. ABA tends to be a very know it all discipline
Ethical practices from all ABA agencies
Knowing their rights fir IEPs, more readily available info., OT, speech, increased collab between school and home
Additional parent groups/support groups and advanced planning for their children
Respite. More supervision hours. Childcare.
Parent participation in programs, supervision/ support for BCBA ‘s, availability of such ABA programs, Availability of experienced professionals
Respite
They would benefit from early intervention and parent training. Often when clients get to us they are adults and the parents can no longer handle them due to the severity of maladaptive
access to state services
Funding for adult services
Detailed list of resources with quality indicators/good routes depending on specific needs of the child
more parent training and more support
As much education as possible
Better transition services between clinic, home and school so that ABA therapy can be faded out more appropriately when needed. Mandatory caregiver/parent participation in training with a BCBA would be helpful. Transportation funding would be helpful to make sure that kids who want and need services at a clinic could get it and better relationships between schools and clinics, so the clients are receiving the care and support necessary.
Aphasia is a common Conor is disorder with ASD. This makes treatment difficult.it would be nice to have confirmation that this is present before targeting behavior approaches to teaching new verbal skills.
Respite care, family therapy
family therapy, neuroplasticity specialist
Wrap around treatment for the entire family.
More knowledge of Autism in the medical field.
Waiver supports
Post 21 information and guidance in what to do after school.
Most clients are not well informed on adult services or long-term services, even those individuals who aspire to attend college or get a job. Accommodations vs. modifications and how those can affect an adult client once they transition out of high school.