ABA Therapy School Readiness Programs

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Developing Minds Aba Therapy offers school readiness programs to help children on the spectrum acquire the precursory skills required for learning and functioning in the classroom setting.  Half day and full day aba therapy programs are available at home or daycare to better prepare your child with transitioning to school.

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Our ABA Therapy Get Ready for School Programs support with school readiness in several key areas:

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• Following Directions & Transitions: Using visual schedules, timers, and stepwise tasks to help children handle school routines and shifts between activities smoothly.

• Social & Communication Skills: Teaching greetings, sharing, group play, emotional recognition, and turn-taking via role-play and modeling. 

• Pre-Academic Skills & Learning Behaviors: Building focus, imitation, attending to tasks, fine motor coordination, and early academic concepts.

• Independence & Self-Care: Teaching chained tasks (like hand washing, dressing) and daily living skills using task analysis to boost autonomy. 

• Familiarity with School Environments: Using drills, social stories, photos, school visits, and mock settings to ease anxiety and build confidence

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Key Academic Areas Addressed with ABA Therapy

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As part of ABA therapy, our team may sometimes use academic platforms such as IXL, RAZ, or similar programs. It is important to clarify that these tools are not being used in the same way a school teacher or tutor would. Under the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario (CPBAO), Registered Behaviour Analysts (RBAs) do not provide academic tutoring or curriculum instruction, as this falls within the professional scope of certified teachers.

Instead, our role is to use ABA strategies to build the underlying skills that help children succeed with academics. For example, we may use IXL to work on persistence, attention, problem solving, or tolerance for making mistakes, or use RAZ to support comprehension through prompting, reinforcement, and task analysis. These strategies strengthen foundational skills that support learning, independence, and success in the classroom.

 

By keeping roles clear, we ensure ethical practice, avoid misunderstandings, and foster meaningful collaboration with teachers who lead academic programming.

 

Our aba academic learning programs target a variety of skills including but not limited to the following:

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• Literacy: Letter recognition, phonics, sight words recognition, reading fluency & reading comprehension.

• Mathematics: Number recognition, counting, addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, math facts, skip counting

• Writing: Tracing, copying, sentence structure. paragraph writing, report writing, narratives, expository writing

• Classroom Readiness: Attending, following directions, transitioning, group work.

• Executive Functioning: task analysis, planning, organization, execution