a a a a a a a a In my organization the process to helping autistic children with behavior
issues is pretty much the same process as the reading. To start a family will
reach out requesting services or the schools will send a packet home
suggesting their child gets services. If the guardians feel the child needs
services, they reach out to the corporate office where they are told what
referrals the child needs. FSBA (Full Spectrum Behavior Analysis) also has a
psychologist on staff that will run diagnostic testing if the families need that.
Once all the paperwork is turned in and fully complete, then the child will be
added to a “ready to be assigned” list. That means a BCBA (board certified
behavior analyst) can choose to open the case and provide services. The
BCBA will set up appointments to go to the home and observe the child. A
functional assessment will be done, along with interviewing the families. Once
that is completed then the BCBA will develop a behavior plan and submit it to
the child’s insurance company for approval. Once the plan gets approved then
the BCBA along with an RBT (registered behavior tech) a (that is what I am at
the moment) will begin to implement the plan, running baseline and take data.
This is when our interaction really begins with the client. We observe
intervene when needed and take notes along with taking data.
One client-facing role that is from the agency I chose would be an
occupational therapist. The job of an occupational therapist consists
of working to help develop, improve, or regain physical, motor,
sensory, cognitive, and social/emotional skills (Bloom Children's
Therapy). An occupational therapist works on helping fix these details
because it is what is important to perform tasks in day-to-day life
(Bloom Children's Therapy). Being an occupational therapist is so
important in the larger helping process that was discussed in the
textbook. An occupational therapist follows a step-by-step process
on how to make a child feel comfortable with them so that they can
better assess them and help them with specific needs. One step, in
particular, is whenever they first get a client they have to bond with
them and they are essentially just playing with the child to get them
to trust you. After the child seems comfortable with you is when you
start a plan of how to help them.
Reference:
Woodside, M. R., & McClam, T. (2018). An Introduction to Human Services
(9th ed.). Cengage Learning US.
https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781337671262
