A Family-Owned Provider Agency

Providing DDD Services in Arizona

With over

Years of Service to the valley!

“As a psychologist with over 30 years of experience in research in the field of autism, and as the editor of the Autism Research Review International, I want to go firmly on record as supporting the value of intensive early behavioral intervention as a modality—actually the most important available modality—for bringing about improvement in most autistic children.”

Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.—Autism Research Institute

What is T.E.A.M.?

Train

We use basic Floor Time Play and Shadowing to develop a relationship between Provider and Client. We teach children first to find pleasure, then purpose and function. While we play, we teach nouns, then later with verbs, then adjectives, then adverbs, and so on. T.E.A.M. also Teaches Communication, Play, Imitation, and Social Skills, and Typical Age Behaviors, all while playing and entertaining the child.

Enrich

We enrich the child’s life with Social Skills, Self-Help Skills, Age-Appropriate Behaviors, Peer Relationships, and Family Bonding. We first start by playing with play figures or dolls and act out hugs, kisses, walking, sitting, and standing. Then we encourage the child to demonstrate affection, possibly for the first time. We have helped to structure a true physical contact between the child and the parent. Things only build from there… It enriches not only the Child’s life, the parent’s life, but also yours when you see the product of your work in life-altering ways…how great is that?

Accommodate

Children with A.S.D. and other developmental conditions are very special. They have sensory issues, behavioral issues, and integration issues. T.E.A.M. believes we should accommodate these issues and give the child new ways to live in a non-accommodating environment. For example, helping children that are soothed by jumping, simple ways to attain the same soothing sensation are by shrinking the behavior into something much smaller and more accepted, like bouncing their leg or standing up briefly to stretch muscles during class or services. These children need the comfort that stemming behaviors bring. So if it’s hand flapping, we can shrink that behavior into tapping a finger. Behaviors that mark them as unusual can be replaced with more typical behaviors that everyone does.

Mainstream

Our Ultimate Goal is to mainstream children with A.S.D. or other Developmental Issues mainstream them into their peer classrooms, peer relationships, then later on to adult relationships, independent living and work skills, marriage, parenting, and self-acceptance.