Play Based ABA & Naturalistic Teaching | Westerville, OH
Kangaroo Journeys provides expert, play based ABA therapy in Westerville, OH, focusing on Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention (NDBI). Our certified BCBAs help children develop functional communication and social skills in their natural environments, serving families across the Westerville City School District and Central Ohio. We offer a joyful alternative to traditional clinical settings, ensuring therapy feels like play while delivering professional, data-driven results.
Our Westerville Mental Health Clinic Approach-
We recognize that it can take a village to raise a child. We want to be an active participant in that village, maintaining consistent and active communication with other providers whether that be Speech, Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), or school. We are eager to help set up relationships to ensure your village is consistent with the mission for your child.
Individuals who Benefit from ABA
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is a science-based approach to addressing skill acquisition and behavior reduction for individuals with and without autism. Any individual lacking appropriate communication or social skills, while perhaps also displaying some challenging behavior, can be supported by ABA. This is only a broad description, and we recognize that certain procedures within ABA can benefit many other developmental needs.
Family Training and Involvement
It is clear from research and experience that without family involvement, outcomes are compromised. We offer parent training in a variety of models to find the best format that works for you, including: sibling involvement, parent observations of sessions, direct meetings with parents, and parental implementation of therapy in community settings with clinician support. We actively initiate the involvement of parents and promote consultative models when intensive therapy is not needed.
5 Steps of the Journey
Then what?
Your joey's journey begins! We will keep your kangaroo moving forward with ongoing outcome evaluation and updated assessments and goals.
Interview
Upon calling us or filling out the web form, we will learn about your child and family's needs. We will listen, connect, and determine if we are the right match for your joey's journey.
Funding
We will identify what funding sources are available to you and how we can best support your financial needs. We will determine the cost of services including copay and deductible amounts.
Enrollment
This step is where we will have initial paperwork completed (HIPAA, consent for services, etc.) to allow us to coordinate care amongst your providers and ensure we have a transparent path to assessment needs.
Assessment
This is a face to face meeting for two purposes: a parent interview to assess all development requiring intervention as well as strengths. Secondly, for the clinician to work 1:1 with your child to establish a baseline for their skills across all observable domains.
Start your Team
Once the treatment plan is reviewed and agreed upon by the family and any required funders, an ABA team of registered behavior technicians is assembled.
