Explore Our Learning Rooms

Our center is organized into specialized learning spaces so children can practice different skills in engaging and developmentally appropriate environments.

Room 1: DTT & Learning Room

Our structured learning room provides a quieter environment for Discrete Trial Training (DTT) and individualized instruction.

Depending on the child's treatment plan, sessions may target receptive and expressive language, functional communication, matching-to-sample, visual and auditory discrimination, receptive identification, tacting, imitation, following instructions, attending, remaining seated, and pre-academic or school-readiness skills.

Teaching is individualized, data-driven, and adjusted according to each child's progress.

Room 2: Art & Music Room

Creativity becomes another opportunity to learn.

Children may participate in painting, coloring, crafts, tracing, music, rhythm, dancing, movement songs, and instrument activities while practicing individualized ABA goals.

These activities can create natural opportunities for fine and gross motor imitation, requesting, following directions, joint attention, turn-taking, making choices, social interaction, functional play, and transitioning between activities.

Room 3: Sensory & Regulation Room

Our Sensory & Regulation Room provides a supportive environment for movement, sensory exploration, communication, and learning.

Activities may be incorporated into individualized ABA programming to teach skills such as requesting a break, requesting help, waiting, transitioning, following safety instructions, and appropriately accessing preferred sensory activities.

The room also provides opportunities to teach children functional ways to communicate what they need.

Room 4: Indoor Playground & Movement Room

Children learn through movement, exploration, and play.

Our large indoor playground and movement area allows children to practice skills outside of traditional table-based instruction.

Through active play, children can work on gross motor imitation, functional and cooperative play, joint attention, social engagement, turn-taking, waiting, following directions, transitions, functional communication, and important safety skills such as “stop,” “wait,” and “come back.”

It also provides opportunities for children to practice interacting with peers and generalizing skills learned in other therapy rooms.

School readiness is an important part of the Waves approach.

With a foundation in both Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis, we understand the expectations children encounter when entering a structured classroom.

Children may need to learn how to transition between activities, participate in a group, follow classroom instructions, communicate their needs, wait, tolerate changes, interact with peers, remain engaged, and complete learning activities.

ABA can systematically teach and strengthen these foundational skills.

Our goal is to help children generalize what they learn in therapy so those skills become meaningful beyond the clinic, such as in their homes, classrooms, playgrounds, and communities.

Every Child Has a Different Path

There is no single way that every child should learn.

At Waves Behavior Therapy, treatment begins with understanding the individual child. Our BCBAs develop individualized, data-driven treatment plans and collaborate with caregivers and other members of the child's care team when appropriate.

Whether a child is learning to request a favorite toy, participate in a classroom activity, play with another child, tolerate a new routine, independently complete a self-care task, or communicate “I need help,” each new skill can be an important step toward greater independence.

At Waves, learning can happen at the table, through a song, during an art project, in the sensory room, on the playground, and throughout everyday life.

At Waves Behavior Therapy, we believe children learn best when they are engaged, supported, and having fun.

We provide individualized, evidence-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services designed to help children strengthen communication, social, learning, adaptive, and independence skills. Our approach combines structured ABA teaching with natural learning opportunities through play, movement, music, art, sensory activities, and everyday routines.

BCBA-Owned & Special Education Focused

Waves Behavior Therapy is BCBA-owned and led by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a Master’s degree in Special Education.

This combination of expertise in Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education allows us to look beyond individual therapy goals and consider the skills children need to successfully participate in everyday environments, especially school.

Our clinical approach emphasizes functional communication, independence, social development, classroom readiness, transitions, following instructions, attending to activities, and other foundational skills that can support a child's participation at home, at school, and in the community.

We understand that every child learns differently. Treatment is individualized according to each child's strengths, needs, developmental level, and treatment goals.

Services and family support are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Learning Through Play

At Waves, we believe that play is an important part of childhood and a powerful opportunity for learning.

Our therapists combine structured teaching with Natural Environment Teaching (NET), creating opportunities for children to practice communication, following instructions, imitation, joint attention, social interaction, waiting, turn-taking, transitions, and other meaningful skills.

Music, art, sensory activities, movement, and play may also be incorporated into ABA programming when clinically appropriate. These activities create motivating opportunities for children to practice individualized treatment goals while interacting with therapists and peers.

Our goal is not simply to teach children how to complete tasks. We want children to develop skills they can use throughout their everyday lives.