Building BLOCS

05/17/2025

What makes our BCBAs so fun and creative?
Here are some of their essential tools and traits they keep in their therapy toolbox.

05/05/2025

Building BLOCS had a great time at the Autism Walk! Thank you to all the organizers, volunteers, and everyone who participated!

05/01/2025

It's May! Pizza Parties, Birthday Parties, and Lemonade Stands. What a fun month! Check out our May Newsletter.

04/21/2025

Building BLOCS is sponsoring the Texas Autism Walk this weekend. Come walk with us or help raise funds for this great organization! https://www.facebook.com/TXAutismWalk/

02/24/2025

Building BLOCS is hosting Summer Camps for children with autism ages 3-6. Check out our website to learn more. https://www.blocsaustin.com/services/now-enrolling-summer-camp/

08/29/2024

Building BLOCS is currently enrolling for our Fall Early Intervention program.
We offer fun, play-based intensive individual and group ABA and Speech Therapy.
Visit our website to learn more and Contact Us

02/27/2023

Building BLOCS is currently hiring ABA Therapists and RBTs! No experience necessary! We will train all new hires in naturalistic intervention using the Early Start Denver Model and will provide RBT training as well.

Must love to play, sing, and dance!

05/19/2022

A huge thank you to the Firemen at Fire Station 25! They came by our center today and let us take a tour of their truck and even spray the firehose!
http://www.blocsaustin.com/firemen-come-to-building-blocs/

03/22/2022

Want to learn a Speech Therapist's tricks of the trade? Hannah Ritchie, M.A., CCC-SLP shares her favorite toys, books, games, and apps to get kids talking.

http://www.blocsaustin.com/favorite-activities-from-a-speech-therapist/ -1565

03/09/2022

One question we get asked all the time is "What exactly is ABA Therapy?" In this post we describe what a typical ABA session looks like at Building BLOCS.
(There are fewer flashcards and more messes than you might imagine.)

http://www.blocsaustin.com/what-happens-in-an-aba-therapy-session/

Home Welcome to Building BLOCS Building BLOCS serves children with autism and other language, behavior, and learning needs in the greater Austin area. Challenging behaviors often arise because children lack the ability to communicate. At Building BLOCS, the behavior therapist and language therapist....

02/22/2022

You may have seen that the CDC recently changed the developmental milestones for children, lowering the expectations for early speech development.

The American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) has reached out to the CDC to express "its concern about inconsistencies and urging the agency to utilize the expertise of SLPs when making changes to developmental milestones in speech, language, feeding, and social communication. In general, ASHA is supportive of efforts to help identify children earlier, but the milestones presented to parents must be evidence-based in order for families to make well-informed decisions about their children's care."

Dear ASHA Members:

ASHA is in the process of analyzing the recent revisions to the developmental milestones used in the CDC’s Learn the Signs. Act Early. initiative. This process includes a comprehensive comparison of the previous vs. new guidelines, as well as a comparison to ASHA-specified milestones. ASHA is also conducting an extensive review of published scientific literature.

ASHA has reached out to CDC, expressing its concern about inconsistencies and urging the agency to utilize the expertise of SLPs when making changes to developmental milestones in speech, language, feeding, and social communication. In general, ASHA is supportive of efforts to help identify children earlier, but the milestones presented to parents must be evidence-based in order for families to make well-informed decisions about their children's care.

ASHA will provide members with an update once its review process is completed and correlating action steps are determined.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
https://on.asha.org/342WAaL

02/21/2022

Are you the parent of an infant/toddler sibling of a child diagnosed with autism?

Please fill out this survey to help researchers understand your perspective about early intervention for infant/toddler siblings!

Follow this link for more information and to complete the survey: https://redcap.link/sibling