Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the basis of all treatment and education methods within center-based services. The board-certified behavior analysts develop appropriate protocols of implementation, creating manageable data collection methods, and supervising implementation by frontline staff to ensure treatment is cohesive and that our students are achieving intended outcomes.

Each of our students will benefit from access to center-based clinicians who lead the behavioral health services within the center’s day program. All of our center-based clinician are social workers licensed by the state of Ohio. Their primary responsibilities include assessing the mental health needs of each student and developing comprehensive, individualized plans of care to address complex needs and that restore social skills and daily functioning. Our clinicians help support family members by providing counseling and parent training for disruptive behavior, offering case management support, and acting as a liaison between Boundless and home.

Educational Services are provided by an intervention specialist or a general education teacher supervised by an intervention specialist. These teachers work collaboratively as part of our agency’s multidisciplinary team to increase our students’ academic, communication, daily living, vocational, and recreational skills, as well as their overall independence. Students in our programs enjoy access to educational services through their educational funder — either their District of Residence or parents who have opted to utilize the Autism Scholarship Program. Academic interventions may include skill repetition and generalization opportunities, monitoring and reporting progress towards the student’s Individual Education Plan, planning and implementing lessons for daily instruction, and, when required, administering state testing.

Our students work off the extended content standards as outlined in their program and all students receive a grade card biannually (semester basis) to assist with tracking completion of course requirements. The high school program has been designed to meet the Ohio Department of Education’s requirements for graduation. Transcripts can be provided to parents or districts as necessary to show these requirements have been met.

High school-aged students have two options for earning a diploma. If the student participates in the Autism Scholarship Program, the parents can submit the gradecards and transcript to their district to be awarded a home school diploma. Students placed by their school district can receive a diploma through their district.

• Social skills development using a combination of stories, modeling, and role play
• Ongoing assessment and instruction by intervention specialists and/or general education teachers capable of administering state testing
• Access to licensed social workers whose primary functions are to assess the mental health needs of each student and develop comprehensive, individualized plans of care to address complex needs, and restore social skills and daily functioning. In addition, they support the family unit by providing
• Counseling and parent training for disruptive behavior
• Care coordination support
• Day treatment for people who have co-occurring autism and behavioral health needs. These special treatments help address complex needs by providing behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques to develop and restore social skills and daily functioning
• Adaptive-skill building
• Problem-behavior reduction

Boundless is proud to offer Reciprocal Imitation Training (RIT) as part of our regular curriculum. RIT is an evidence-based program to teach imitation and other early social communication skills to young children with autism within a play-based context.

RIT combines evidence-based strategies from multiple approaches into a single program.

• Developmental strategies, such as those used in the P.L.A.Y. Project
• Behavioral strategies, such as those used in ABA
• Teaching within natural settings, such as play and daily routines

Parents interested in using RIT strategies at home with their child will receive a manual that includes detailed descriptions and examples and one-on-one coaching to implement the RIT strategies.

Our students receive innovative speech and language therapy from a state-licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP). Our SLPs provide person-centered, evidence-based therapy — as well as intervention services and speech and language education for families.

Services include:

• Evaluation
• Diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, and social communication deficits
• Augmentative and alternative communications (AAC) therapy

Speech and language therapy sessions are conducted one-on-one and frequently in a classroom setting. Our speech and language team collaborates with other staff members and parents to encourage carryover skills that drive meaningful improvements.