ABC Center Singapore

The possibility of a better and more humane world, especially for individuals with special needs, derives from the science of Behavior Analysis, founded by B.F. Skinner.

This led us to the position that the effective technology of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) would directly and meaningfully impact the lives of individuals with autism and their families. With this vision in mind, we founded Applied Behavior Consultants, Inc. (ABC) in 1987.

For over 30 years ABC has provided ABA services to the community serving individuals with Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and other developmental disabilities.

From early beginnings with Behavior Intervention Services, ABC has embraced the ideal that the parent(s) are the child’s first teacher(s) (Baker and Brightman, 1994) which launched our Positive Programming for Parents group parent training programs.

Coming from this perspective of empowering parents, ABC’s roots lie in a “trainer to trainer” model where training others would result in effective ABA programming for individuals with special needs.

From this precept, ABC has developed an extensive number of programs to meet the growing needs of all individuals with disabilities and Autsim/ASD.

With the diagnosis of Autism/ASD rising, ABC has developed services to meet that challenge in several locations throughout the United States, starting in California (Sacramento, Central Valley, Bay Area; North and South East Los Angeles).

ABC developed consultation for individuals with Prader- Willie Syndrome in 1987 and a Care Provider Training Series (CPTS) for Care Homes a year later. In 1990, ABC started its first in-home Autism programs in the Sacramento region.in 1994, we began our first Non-Public School (NPS) for children with Autism/ASD in Sacramento and eventually in Durate and Ontario.

In 2006-2007, ABC started its Infant-Toddler programs in Duarte, Central Valley, and Sacramento. We now have opened site based Early Intensive Behavior Treatment Programs in Stockton and Sacramento.

Internationally, ABC has been successful in disseminating ABA in Europe, Asia and Africa. We have provided training in various universities in Europe, in China and many other countries.we established our first branch in Southeast Asia in 2009, with the opening of ABC Center Singapore.

Today, we offer ABA services to both individuals, as well as to schools and other vocational facilities in the USA, and in many countries globally for individuals, we provide both in-center and in home ABA services — from infant/toddlers all the way to adults via our Adult Day Program.

For Schools and other Vocational facilities, we provide training to school staff and caregivers on ABA, discrete trial, PECS, behaviour intervention, and many other topics. we continue with our effort in spreading ABA to all who need the technology worldwide.

For over 30 years in 4 continents, we have helped thousands of individuals with autism improve their quality of life through Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).all ABA progams begin with a comprehensive functional assessment including an extensive evaluation of the individual’s language, play, and social repertoires.

The VB-MAPP (Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, Sundberg, 2008) or ABLLS (Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills, Partington & Sundberg, 1998) is used to identify language deficits that prevent the child from communicating, playing and socializing for children 0-5 years old, the Carolina Curriculum for Infants/Toddlers is used to see how the child functions compared to same age peers.

Skill deficits are probed within ABC’s generalization levels (REAL – Recreating Environments to Accelerate Learning, Terzich, 1996) to determine the level of generalization training needed to maintain the behaviors in the child’s daily life at home, in school, and the neighborhood.

Intervention programs are designed to build the repertoires needed by the individual with autism to interact with others in a purposeful and meaningful way.

When behavior problems arise (excesses), a descriptive and functional analysis (functional assessment) is performed on the behaviors that interfere with the child’s learning or jeopardize the safety of the child and/or others.

Behavior reducing procedures contain preventative strategies: treatment procedures that systematically reduce or eliminate behavior excesses; and more impotantly, functionally equivalent alternative responses to replace the problem behavior.