Lighthouse Fusion® ABA Therapy
An Effective Approach to Speech Support in ABA Therapy
Designed by a team of dually certified clinicians (with both SLP and BCBA credentials), some of only a handful in the world, Lighthouse Fusion® integrates speech support directly into a child’s daily ABA therapy programming, creating an enhanced, integrated therapy approach that delivers excellent outcomes for children with autism.
The Lighthouse Fusion® Difference
Speech therapy is an important contributor to optimal outcomes for your child.
Traditionally, children receive speech therapy and ABA therapy as separate services, with speech therapy often limited to a single 30-minute or one hour session per week. The Lighthouse Fusion® model fosters collaboration between the Lighthouse Speech Integration Team, the Center’s BCBA and RBT team, and any external SLPs working with your child. This approach integrates speech support goals, modalities, and practices directly into your child’s daily ABA therapy program.
- Traditional ABA Therapy Model – programs are designed by a BCBA and implemented by an RBT. The BCBA and RBT are trained clinicians on ABA therapy practices and design and implement behavior related therapy goals for children with autism.
- Traditional Speech Model – Most ABA centers that offer speech therapy offer and bill as an entirely separate service from ABA therapy. Whether at the center or at another provider children will generally only receive 30 minutes of speech therapy per week as approved by insurance. That is a very short window for a child to make progress in such an important area of development.
- Lighthouse Fusion® ABA therapy – With Lighthouse Fusion®, our team of dually certified Board Certified Behavior Analysts and Speech Language Pathologists, are working collaboratively with your child’s BCBA and RBT to implement speech support directly into your child’s daily ABA programs. That means your child is going from receiving 30 minutes of speech a week, to receiving speech support through-out the ABA therapy day, ultimately leading to better outcomes for your child. BCBA’s and RBT’s also receive training on speech therapy techniques for even more opportunities for speech development in your child’s daily programs.
How We Fuse Speech with ABA
Co-Treat Sessions
Lighthouse’s team of professionals, including a dually-certified SLP/BCBA, a BCBA, and an RBT, all collaborate in-person or virtually to develop integrated speech support and ABA programming and monitor your child’s speech, language and vocabulary goals and skill attainment.
The Speech Team
The Lighthouse Speech Team is made up of professionals who are dually certified as both SLPs and BCBAs—a rare and highly specialized qualification that makes them among the few in the world with this unique expertise.
Training
This team of dually-certified professionals is up-to-date with leading edge research and are actively developing integrated speech and behavior therapy techniques for ABA programming, training Lighthouse BCBAs and RBTs throughout our Centers, and collaborating with external SLPs for the benefit of our Lighthouse Learners.
