In 2014, Bridge Kids changed the ABA game in NYC by becoming the first ABA private practice to exclusively employ Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) as direct 1:1 ABA providers to children and adults in New York City. We created this unique model to assure that the quality of ABA we provide is top notch. We attract the BEST of the best BCBAs who choose to work directly with our clients in order to make significant and meaningful changes in their lives. We also are proud to specifically program for generalization of acquired skills by requiring parental/caregiver involvement, initiating close and collaborative relationships with all related service providers including school professionals, and providing our ABA sessions across all meaningful environments in our clients’ lives. Bridge Kids is focused on providing compassionate care to both our clients and their families, protecting the dignity of those we serve, and evaluating our own behavior as it pertains to cultural responsiveness and inclusivity.

We work with some of NYC’s greatest educational attorneys in fighting for the rights of our clients across home and schools. Through our push-in school model, we provide behavioral support for our clients so that they can access the education and/or related services provided by the DOE. We create Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) for all of our clients, that are heavily focused on using antecedent strategies to set our clients up for success and prevent the need for them to engage in challenging behaviors. Our home-based sessions focus heavily on behavioral interventions specific to the family’s routine and home environment. Home sessions often focus on increasing our clients’ independence in activities of daily living (e.g. dressing, toileting, showering, feeding), providing our client’s with behavioral and social-emotional support in accessing social opportunities in their local community programs, and using a verbal behavior approach to teach our clients functional communication to meet their basic wants and needs. Parental collaboration is vital to successful home based services to assure that we do not create positive behavior change “in a bubble” with only our therapists. Our goal is transfer our behavioral skills over to our clients and their caregivers systematically in order to create real change. Our home-based ABA sessions can also focus on helping our clients (and their caregivers) access vital medical services, such as routine dentistry and bloodwork, as well as non-medical services such as getting a haircut, joining a team sport, or ordering their favorite meal from Shake Shack.