Entries by Melissa Poe

Let’s Learn ABA: Proactive Behavior Strategies

Tantrums, Elopement, Aggression. You may be all too familiar with these terms, along with several other behaviors that you find difficult to handle in your daily life. Are you asking yourself how you can respond to these behaviors?  Or maybe, you are looking for strategies you can do after your loved one struggles with these. […]

BTL 2022 Covid-19 Update

Hi BTL Fam! As we continue our trek on the COVID-19 journey, we want to ensure we are regularly updating our COVID-19 information and updating our families with the latest information. We strive to keep our families, employees, and anyone involved with BTL as safe as possible. Our team continues to monitor and review the […]

Hand Washing Printable

As we continue to work through the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand that teaching essential skills (like hand washing) are important for the safety and well-being of our families and friends. We hope that you find this visual helpful when working on hand washing! Hand Washing If your child(ren) struggle with hand washing, feel free to […]

Let’s Learn ABA: Imitation

We’ve heard the phrase Learning is doing and doing is learning. But have you considered that learning is also copying?! Growing up, many of us learned to do the tasks we do today from watching others and copying them. For me, I know how to make some of my grandma’s famous recipes because I watched […]

Let’s Learn ABA: Listener Responding

Hi BTL Fam! Do you remember the game “Simon Says”? You know the one where “Simon” tells you to do different things and if you don’t follow the directions, then you’re out! We have probably all played this game at least once in our lives. Unfortunately, many kiddos with ASD have difficulties playing this game […]

COVID-19 Tool Kit

Please feel free to use this tool kit to make COVID-19 Quarantine easier to navigate! We recommend trying these different resources for all of your needs during this difficult. BTL COVID Tool KIt We encourage you to reach out to BTL if there are any addition resources you may find beneficial.

BTL Family Traditions

Everyone has that one tradition they do every Christmas. It may be snuggling up watching Christmas movies, opening 1 present Christmas Eve, or even something silly! We asked Team BTL what their favorite family traditions are. We love getting to learn more about our BTL families and share precious stories everyone has! Here is what […]

7 Autism Friendly Christmas Celebrations

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Fleiz Navidad! December seems to be the most magical time of the year! Whether it is the first snowfall, decorating a Christmas tree, or seeing all of your neighbors houses illuminated, there is no other time of year that is more cheerful. We wanted to share some of our suggestions on […]

Let’s Learn ABA: Intraverbals

Hi BTL Fam! Intraverbals are next on our list of Verbal Operants. Remember to check out our other posts over mands, tacts, echoics, and verbal operants! Intraverbal responses are often the next step for our kiddos after learning to make a request, labeling items, and repeating words or phrases. Think of an intraverbal as the […]