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School-Based ABA Consultation
for Missouri Children

Our BCBAs partner with school staff, IEP teams, and teachers to generalize ABA skills into the classroom — reducing challenging behaviors and supporting academic success.

What It Is

Bringing ABA Expertise
Directly into the Classroom

School consultation services place an Archways ABA Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) directly into your child's school environment. Our BCBAs work collaboratively with special education teachers, general education teachers, paraprofessionals, and IEP teams to ensure the strategies that work in therapy also work at school.

Skills that are mastered in a clinic or home setting often don't automatically transfer to school. This phenomenon — called the generalization challenge — is one of the most important and frequently overlooked factors in a child's overall progress. School consultation bridges that gap, ensuring your child's hard-won skills carry over into every setting of their life.

Why It Matters

Children with autism spend the majority of their waking hours in school. Without ABA support in that setting, even the most successful clinic program can fail to produce meaningful change in the child's overall quality of life and independence.

Key Benefits of School Consultation

  • Skill Generalization — Ensures skills learned in ABA therapy are practiced and reinforced in the school setting, across classrooms, teachers, and activities.
  • Classroom Behavior Support — Identifies the function of challenging behaviors at school and develops effective, evidence-based strategies for school staff to implement.
  • IEP Goal Development and Monitoring — Our BCBAs provide expert input on measurable, function-based IEP goals and monitor progress toward them.
  • Staff Training and Coaching — Teachers and paraprofessionals are trained to implement behavior support strategies with confidence and fidelity.
  • Reduced Restrictive Interventions — Evidence-based behavior plans reduce the need for exclusionary or restrictive practices in the classroom.
  • Collaboration with Special Education Teams — We work as a partner, not a replacement — supporting and strengthening what your school team already does.
What We Provide

What School Consultation Includes

Our school consultation services are comprehensive, collaborative, and tailored to each child's unique needs and school setting.

Classroom Observation

Our BCBA visits the classroom to observe your child in their natural school environment — gathering objective data on behavior, learning patterns, and environmental factors that may be contributing to challenges.

Functional Behavior Assessment

When challenging behaviors are present in school, our BCBA conducts a full FBA in the school setting to identify why the behavior is happening and develop an effective intervention plan.

Behavior Support Plans

We develop written, evidence-based Behavior Support Plans (BSPs) that translate clinical findings into practical strategies that classroom staff can implement consistently and successfully.

Teacher & Aide Training

We train teachers and paraprofessionals on the specific strategies in your child's behavior support plan — building their confidence and capacity to support your child throughout the school day.

IEP Goal Consultation

Our BCBAs provide expert consultation on developing and writing measurable, function-based IEP goals aligned with ABA principles and your child's clinical treatment plan.

Progress Monitoring Reports

We provide written progress reports documenting your child's behavioral and skill gains in the school setting, giving IEP teams and families clear, data-driven updates on outcomes.

Who It's For

Who Benefits from School Consultation?

School consultation is a strong fit for families and school teams when:

  • Child is on an IEP for autism or behavior
  • Challenging behaviors are occurring in class
  • Child is transitioning from clinic to school
  • School team needs behavior expertise support
  • Current school strategies aren't working
  • District requires an FBA and BIP
  • Skills aren't generalizing from ABA to school
How It Works

The Consultation Process

1

Referral & Consultation Call

Contact us to discuss your child's school situation. We'll talk through the concerns and determine the right scope of consultation.

2

School Observation

Our BCBA visits the school to observe your child in the classroom environment and conduct interviews with relevant staff.

3

Report & Recommendations

We deliver a written report with clear, practical recommendations — including behavior support plans and IEP goal suggestions as needed.

4

Ongoing Support

We provide follow-up training, progress monitoring, and ongoing consultation to ensure recommendations are implemented effectively and adjusted as your child grows.

Ready to Begin?

Get Expert ABA Support in Your Child's School

Contact our team today. We'll connect you with a BCBA who specializes in school-based consultation and begin supporting your child's success in the classroom.

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