MAT 644 Special Education Program Map

Special Education Program Map

Dorothy Chung
MAT 644 Foundations and Principles of Curriculum
National University

Behavior Frontiers LLC (Pasadena Region) Program Map

Behavior

Parent

Speech

OT In-

Early Echoic

Manding

MAT 644 Special Education Program Map

Interventio
n Plan

Trainin
g

Therapy

Home
Therap
y

Skills
Assessment

Kindergarte
n

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

Demographics (Pasadena Region)

Client Population

Caucasian

10

Kindergarten

24

African-American

1st

16

Hispanic

23

2nd

Asian

19

3rd

Armenian

12

4th

Other

5th

6th

Note: I belong to the Pasadena region of Behavior Frontiers. Currently, I only provide behavior
therapy sessions to elementary school aged clients. The figures provided above represent all
Pasadena clients that fit within my age range. Sessions are rendered both at school and at home.
The clients funding sources (i.e. Regional Center or private insurance companies) determine
how many hours of therapy a client receives each week. Behavior Frontiers does not accept
clients with less than 10 allotted hours per week. Younger students (age 3-6) receive 20-30 hours
of therapy per week. Older students (age 6 and up) tend to receive less (10-20hr/wk) as they have
less availability for scheduled sessions.

MAT 644 Special Education Program Map

All in-home cases have a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) in place, which specifies what
maladaptive and adaptive behaviors therapists will target during sessions. These are determined
by the companys case managers.
All school cases have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). Unlike the BIP, the targets of
the IEP are determined by the school district, with behavior therapists having minimal impact on
the clients targets and school goals.
All clients are required to have Parent Training programs in place, as it is now a requirement for
funding through the Los Angeles Regional Center and most insurance companies. These
programs vary from teaching parents how to properly identify functions of behavior, to teaching
parents how to take accurate behavior data. The targets of the Parent Training programs will
depend on the specific case needs.
Speech therapy and occupational therapy are funded by the Regional Center and insurance
companies. The number of hours of therapy given to a client is dependent on how many hours
the Center and/or insurance companies allot. Most students receive two 30-45 minute sessions
per week; however, some clients are not allotted any speech or OT hours. Students that are
learning to use augmented language (ie Proloquo) are generally allotted more hours of speech
therapy so that they may learn how to use their augmented language devices (1 hour, 2-3
times/week).
- The vast majority of students receiving speech therapy are in grades 1-3
- Occupational therapy is relatively even across all grades
Early Echoic Skills Assessment (EESA) programs are essentially speech therapy programs
targeted at home. They work on the same skills a schools Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
would target. All students receiving speech at school have an EESA program in place at home
(47 students); however, 6 students have EESA programing but no allotted speech therapy hours
at school.
Manding teaches functional communication. It allows for clients to ask for what they need in
appropriate ways. The ability to teach manding, however, hinges on the clients intraverbal skills.
While manding is targeted in 100% of Pasadena clients, 19 clients also have separate prerequisite programming necessary to master the manding program (i.e. eye contact, identical
matching, tacting)