Interdisciplinary Comprehensive Behavior Acquisition Model (ICBAM) is a fully integrated therapeutic curriculum which extends well beyond traditional discrete trial interventions.

Our ICBAM program incorporates therapies, concepts and practices from various disciplines including Applied Behavior Analysis, Speech and Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, and STEP (Specialized Training Empowering Parents).

Your child’s ICBAM Program will be specifically designed to address specific developmental skill deficits. Ongoing supervision and modification of program goals and procedures will be implemented on a regular basis. This allows for maximum development and skill building in multiple developmental domains.

The key to ICBAM’s success is the ongoing reassessment and monitoring by your child’s “clinical team”. The team will update goals on a regular basis to address your child’s changing needs and skill levels as your child moves through the program.

ICBAM is patient-centered rather than discipline-centered.

The concept is multifold. First to insure that all relevant disciplines are effectively represented in the child’s treatment program. Second, to document rigorously and scientifically progress every thirteen weeks. Third, to fully ascertain and incorporate family goals and priorities into every thirteen-week module. Fourth, to properly modify the child’s curriculum for the following quarter. And fifth, to change, as the child matures, the relative time involvement of each discipline. For example, from language-based discrete trial to academics.

The key components of each thirteen-week module include the following:

1. Program Development (Based on Results of Interdisciplinary Developmental/Behavioral Assessment (IDBA)
2. 130 hours of one-to-one intervention by a Developmental Specialist
3. 13 program supervisions by a senior Developmental Specialist.
4. Any combination of 12 disciplinary consultations with the Developmental Specialist by senior clinicians in Speech and Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis, or Special Education.
5. 13 hours of in-home Specialized Training Empowering Parents (STEP)
6. Interdisciplinary quarterly review with family. Pre and post IDBA/PEP-R review and progress report.
7. If requested, quarterly review with child’s physician or school.