First Year ABA Schedule:

Age of child 4.5 to 5 years of age.

Number of Therapists: 4 therapists.

Number of hours: 40 hour weekly schedule Monday- occasional Saturdays.

Included in the 40hours schedule: 12.5 hours of preschool with a shadow from our program (two of our tutors shadowed), 2-4 hours of community outings, 5 hours of play dates or playground or “lets search the park for a group of kids” type stuff.

Towards the end of the preschool school year, the shadows were pulling back and he attended several days by himself. He had a very supportive preschool teacher.

Summer before Kindergarten

Age of Child: 5.5 years.

Number of therapists: 4 therapists

Number of hours: 40hrs Monday- Friday to include 6 hours of play group, library story hour at two different libraries, 5 hours of community trips.

Kindergarten August 2000-December 2000

Age of child : 6 years

Number of Therapists : 5

Number of hours: 32 hours of kindergarten with a shadow L 7 hours of afterschool ABA plus 3 hours of community trips looking for kids to play with, etc.

Kindergarten January- May 2001

Age of Child : 6.5 years.

Number of hours : 50 hours.

Number of therapists: 5

We pulled our child from his “hellish” kindergarten class with an unsupportive teacher and an unsupportive principal. He was now homeschooled. The 50hrs included 6 hours week of supervised play dates, 2 hours a week of Garden Club,

3 hours of Italian School with shadow, 2 hours of Sunday School without shadow,

1 hour of junior choir without shadow, 1 hour a week of soccer with shadow, 6-8 hours of community outings, and the rest were ABA sessions done throughout the house. We had wonderful improvements during this time.

May 2001-August 2001

Age of Child: 6.5 years

Number of Therapists: 2 therapists

Activities included: zoo camp, art camp, story/craft time at the library 2 hours a week, 5 hours of community outings, Bible school, 5-7 hrs of play dates when we could get them, and 1:1 aba done throughout the house, community, etc.

August 2001

Age of child almost 7

Number of therapists: 2

32 hrs a week with a shadow in a 1^st grade teacher who WAS VERY VERY VERY SUPPORTIVE. The shadow immediately began fading because this was such a WONDERFUL teacher, 1 hr week of swim lessons, 3 hrs of Italian School, and about 5 hours of ABA, and 5 hrs of play dates.

September 2001-May 2002:

Age of child: 7 years.

Number of Therapists 2 (we added a third MALE therapist in Feb-May)

He was attending first grade shadowless for 32 hrs per week! Hooray!!!

3 hours of Italian School with Shadow (who was there more for observation to look at social skills we needed to work on)

1 hr of swim lessons with a shadow spying J She happened to be a swim instructor so we enrolled him in her class.

5 hours a week of “guy things” with the male tutor to include extreme sports, rock climbing, kite flying, tree climbing.

6 hours a week of ABA.

Any peer interaction we could get (varied from 5-10hrs a week)

June 2002

No ABA. Just mom. Number of therapists: 0

Activities: art camp , zoo camp, and a HUGE family vacation, bible school.

He plays with kids in the neighbourhood when they are out, I occasionally call one buddy from his first grade for a play date.

Plan for fall 2002:

Second grade- no shadow.

Swim lessons- no shadow.

Italian School- no shadow

Try and foster more peer relationships by inviting peers over.