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Inclusive Education and Community Partnership (IECP) is vendored with several Regional Centers throughout the State of California.  We provide services based in Applied Behavior Analysis, Social Play and Friendship Development, Community Integration, and Preschool Inclusion. All programs are based in the research of Applied Behavior Analysis and interventions utilized within those programs have strong foundations in empirical research. There is a strong parent training component within all our programs and where appropriate a strong community member training component as well.

Services Offered Include:
ABA Program:

This program is designed to meet the behavioral needs of children and adults with autism spectrum disorders as well as children and adults with other disabilities in which the individual’s behavior requires Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and/or Developmental Social Pragmatics (DSP) interventions. The goals of this program are as follows: 

• To develop the behavioral skills and the developmental social pragmatic knowledge of the individual to allow them maximum success in natural environments.
• To teach the child/adult self-management skills so to give him/her control over current and future behavior challenges.
• To train and educate the transactional partners (parents, peers, community members, etc.) in the individual’s world, on the principles of applied behavior analysis that will assist them in helping the individual to manage his/her own behavior and demonstrate the appropriate behaviors in inclusive environments. 

In general, the ABA program involves identifying target behaviors that are interfering with the individual’s ability to access and participate in typical activities and environments, both in the community and in the home; analyzing the functions of those behaviors; identifying the developmental areas of deficit that may be contributing to the child’s use of the target behavior; identifying appropriate functionally equivalent replacement behaviors; and ultimately developing a behavior intervention plan that will address the target behavior by making changes within the environment and developing interventions to address the areas of developmental deficit to assist the child in learning to utilize the replacement behaviors. Parents/Care Providers will be taught how to implement these interventions as well as how to identify the basic tenets associated with challenging behaviors so they will be able to address new target behaviors in the future. This process requires detailed analysis and ongoing assessment, along with effective programming and consistency in implementation. Parents/care providers will also learn the basic principles involved in data collection and how to make decisions regarding the strategies they use with their child to address the target behavior effectively.

Social Play and Friendship Development Program:

This program is designed to meet the social play needs of children with autism spectrum disorders. Consultation on facilitating play dates and developing and fostering friendships is available to families who have children with other disabilities, but the direct interventions are based specifically on research relating to children with autism. The goals of this program are as follow:

• To develop and strengthen the social play skills of the child with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities.
• To develop and strengthen the social play skills of the typically developing child in relation to their friend with a disability.
• To develop the skills of the child with a disability and those of their friends, and the repertoire of activities, to allow independent, unfacilitated and natural play to occur.
• To create opportunities and successful interactions that lead to the development of genuine and long lasting friendships.
• To develop the skills of the transactional partners within the child’s life (i.e. parents, care providers, community staff) to independently be able to facilitate and teach social play skills to the identified child and their play partners

In general, this program involves facilitating social play between a child with autism spectrum disorders/developmental disabilities and a typically developing friend. The focus is on developing the social play behaviors of the child with disabilities and educating the typical child on how to play and engage with the child with disabilities. The interventions involve working through a sequence of developmental social play skills which include attunement, joint attention, reciprocal interactions, topic maintenance, and topic maintenance on a non-preferred topic. Interwoven and aligned with those play skills the intervention will include working through isolated play, parallel play, interactive play, and cooperative play. The program is a social play development intervention program with the important addition of peer training so that the play can be continued in the absence of adult facilitation. Parents/Care Providers must attend every session, make arrangements to have typical peers attend the play dates, and learn the strategies involved in successfully facilitating play dates so they will be able to do this once IECP’s services are faded out.

Community Integration Program:

IECP provides consultation services to community agency (e.g., Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA programs, Boys and Girls Club, Teen Centers, etc.) staff supporting children and adolescents in inclusive settings.  These services are provided to inclusive community agencies for children and youth enrolled on a part-time or full time basis. The goals of the service are listed below:

• To facilitate the successful inclusion of children and youth into their community’s neighborhood agencies;
• To assist the staff of community agencies in developing the skills and the tools necessary to independently and successfully include children and youth with disabilities;
• To assist in the informal assessment of individual children and youth and consult with community agency staff regarding how to address the unique needs of the different children and youth in their programs.

These consultation services are individually designed based on the needs of the child and those of the community agency. In general, these services focus on each individual’s areas of need, which may include, but are not limited to, socialization and play skills, behavioral skills, language and communication development, pre-academic skills, and overall participation. IECP will conduct an informal assessment of the consumer using direct observation, review of relevant records, and interview of parents and care providers to determine the areas of need and styles of learning.  This information is then used to develop a service plan that will include the support and training of community agency staff. Parents/Care Providers must participate in at least 1/3 of every session so they can continue to work with community agencies in being able to successfully include their child when IECP’s services fade out.

Preschool Inclusion Program:

IECP provides consultation services to preschool and daycare center staff supporting children with disabilities in inclusive settings. These services will be provided to inclusive local preschool and daycare centers for children enrolled on a part-time or full time basis. The goals of the service are listed below:

• To facilitate the successful inclusion of children into their  neighborhood preschools and daycare centers;
• To assist the staff of local preschool and daycare centers in developing the skills and the tools necessary to independently and successfully include children and youth with disabilities;
• To assist in the informal assessment of individual children and consult with preschool and daycare center staff regarding how to address the unique needs of the different children in their programs.

These consultation services are individually designed based on the needs of the child and those of the preschool or daycare center.  In general, these services focus on each child’s areas of need, which may include, but are not limited to, socialization and play skills, behavioral skills, language and communication development, pre-academic skills, and overall participation. IECP will conduct an informal assessment of the child using direct observation, review of relevant records, and interview of parents and care providers to determine the areas of need and styles of learning. This information will then be used to develop a service plan that will include the support and training of preschool or daycare center staff. Parents/Care Providers must participate at least 1/3 of the time collaborating and working with IECP staff and preschool staff so they learn how to help successfully include their child in community preschools so IECP services may eventually fade out.