Step By Step ABA

05/13/2025

Join us in celebrating Adriana’s, Benji’s, & Ashley’s 3 year anniversaries with Step by Step!

Adriana is an exemplary BCBA with 14 years of experience in the field. She’s always goes above and beyond to meet her clients needs. And comes up with creative and individualized programming and strategies to support her clients meet their goals!

Benji is an amazing BCBA Candidate with over 6 years of experience in ABA. He is constantly advocating for his clients and their families and comes to work every day with contagious energy and positivity. We know he’s going to be an awesome BCBA very soon!

Ashley is our office administrator/ RBT with over 7 years of experience in the field. She is so passionate, dedicated, and determined to support clients to meet their maximum potential every single day! She is also a hard working and irreplaceable member of our management team!

05/08/2025

Have an amazing day!

11/02/2024

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You are probably familiar with the term parallel play, but did you know that a child playing alongside another is part of a sequence of development? And that sometimes parallel play stalls?

Parallel play occurs when children play in groups, in preschool classrooms, day care centers, playdates, or in small groups, including alongside siblings. Playmates that play beside one another may be using the same toys or playthings or they may be using different toys.

It’s an opportunity to build social skills by observing a peer, using new words and building on language development, seeing new vocabulary in action, exploring different scenarios, exploring social behavior, even at a young age.
Parallel play is a process in social emotional learning and social emotional development, and includes practice in the social development that might not happen in stages of play prior to parallel play (unoccupied play, solitary play, and onlooker play).

Because parallel play requires proximity to other children, it’s a great way to practice the skills needed for play stages after parallel play as well, leading to a healthy development of social awareness.
There are six stages of play in early childhood including:
🧸Unoccupied play
🤸‍♀️Solitary play
🪀Onlooker play
🧩Parallel play
🛒Associative play
🏸Cooperative play

Read here for more information on this stage of play development, and how to support the child in this stage: https://www.theottoolbox.com/support-social-skills-through-parallel-play/

04/07/2024

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01/17/2024

01/17/2024

Wanna know a FREE and super fast way to help your kids listen? Show them what to do!

Try this phrase: “like this”. After you give an instruction, add on the phrase “like this” and then demonstrate.

DO the correct response to show them how, to remind them how. DON’T just talk about it- that’s called nagging and could easily turn into a lecture. No fun for anyone!

When your child is engaging in problem behavior, they may need a reminder of the appropriate thing to do at that moment. Would you rather tell them or show them? Would they rather listen to your nagging or watch you do a quick demo? Which works faster with your child? Showing or telling? Which could be made more fun? Acting things out can be silly and fun- think charades! That shift to fun modeling and charades can be the interruption to an ugly problem behavior chain starting to happen!

Do, don’t tell.