Paula Goldberg, BCaBA
Contact us at 561-859-9960 or by email to bocabehavior@gmail.com
Customized Behavioral Solutions for Children
Discover transformative, personalized behavior therapy designed to empower children and adolescents. Explore how Boca Behavior Therapy can support your child’s growth with proven ABA strategies tailored to their unique needs. Services provided in your home, at school, and by telephone or video conferencing.
Behavior Modification Therapy for children and their families is a therapeutic approach that focuses on changing negative behaviors into positive ones through the use of reinforcement techniques. It is often used to address a variety of behavioral issues such as aggression, defiance, hyperactivity, and social skills deficits. The therapy is grounded in the principles of operant conditioning, which involves using rewards and consequences to influence behavior.
Key Components:
- Assessment: Understanding the child’s behavior through observation and gathering information from parents, teachers, and other caregivers to identify specific issues and triggers.
- Goal Setting: Collaboratively setting realistic and achievable goals for behavior change. These goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).
- Reinforcement Strategies: Implementing positive reinforcement to encourage desirable behaviors. This can include praise, rewards, or tokens. Negative behaviors are addressed through consequences such as redirection or loss of privileges.
- Consistency: Ensuring that all caregivers apply the same reinforcement strategies consistently. Consistency is crucial for the child to understand the connection between their behavior and the outcome.
- Skill Development: Teaching children new skills to replace negative behaviors, such as communication skills, problem-solving, and emotional regulation.
- Family Involvement: Engaging the family in the therapy process to ensure that changes are supported at home. This may involve training parents in behavior management techniques and improving family communication.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Regularly tracking progress and making adjustments to the therapy plan as needed. This may involve revisiting goals, altering reinforcement strategies, or addressing new issues that arise.
Benefits:
- Improves the child’s behavior and social skills.
- Enhances the parent-child relationship.
- Reduces family stress and conflict.
- Provides children with lifelong coping and social skills.
Behavior Modification Therapy is most effective when tailored to the individual needs of the child and family, involving active participation from all parties to create a supportive environment for change.
Tailored ABA Programs for School and Home
Our mission is to empower families by using ABA to transform behaviors, fostering growth and understanding in every child.
What is Behavior Modification
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an organized, proven scientific approach to understanding and solving a range of behavior problems while teaching new skills. It is focused on analyzing, modifying and improving behavior using established principles that stress the direct manipulation of environmental variables. ABA is a mixture of psychological and educational techniques and tools that are utilized based upon the needs of each child to teach appropriate skills. This approach ethically reduces and eliminates inappropriate behaviors and teaches appropriate behaviors with a lasting long-term effect. The goal of ABA is to encourage socially acceptable behaviors, while reducing problematic behaviors. ABA teaches the skills required to effectively promote better listening and stronger verbal communication. It works over time to rewire nerve synapses in the brain that are responsible for learning and comprehension.
Benefits of ABA Therapy – How can we help your child and your family?
ABA is widely recognized as a safe and effective treatment for autism. It has been endorsed by many state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Surgeon General and the New York State Department of Health. Over the last several decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of ABA to help people with autism live happy and productive lives. ABA techniques can foster basic skills such as improved eye contact, response to name and physical and verbal imitating, as well as complex skills such as improved verbal skills, and understanding other’s perspective and emotions.
How We Can Help Your Child
- All services provided in natural environment or via telehealth or virtual meetings
- Improve cognitive and pre-academic skills
- Teach age-appropriate peer social skills
- Teach functional purposeful play skills
- Increase socially acceptable behaviors
- Reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviors
- Establish positive family interactions
- Improved attention and focus on academic tasks
- Increase eye-contact and response to name
- Improve your child’s self-confidence
- Improve communication skills
- Reduce tantrum, screaming, anxiety, self-injure
and repetitive self-stimulatory behaviors - Exhibit positive friendship making skills
- Create a happy and positive family dynamic
Virtual Visits Wherever you are located
Providing personalized ABA programs for each child.
Delray Beach
Committed to offering expert care and guidance here.
Boca Raton
Uncover tailored services designed for your child’s needs.
Boynton Beach
Focused on delivering top-notch behavioral strategies.
Services Offered
Behavior Modification Therapy
ABA application of specific counseling techniques that stress the modification of environment to improve behavior; to build socially acceptable behaviors and to reduce or eliminate problematic ones. A functional behavioral assessment of the behavioral concerns is conducted, then an individualized treatment plan is developed
Positive Parenting Education and Effective Discipline
Behavior Therapy focuses on teaching parents, teachers and all caregivers effective discipline strategies and tools to encourage appropriate behaviors while reducing unwanted behaviors. Such behaviors include; tantrums, hygiene and self-help skills, verbal communication, bedtime and feeding concerns and listening while following directions and rules. Strong boundaries help children understand consequences to develop self-control and self-confidence and fosters a stronger family relationship. ABA Therapy has proven invaluable in helping children with behavioral issues, those who are on the autism spectrum, or dealing with related disabilities.
Early Intervention Preschool
Addressing concerns early helps children in becoming school ready so they will not fall behind. Home therapy programs teach parents tools to better understand the inappropriate behaviors and how to handle each situation more effectively to reduce the frequency of problem behavior in the future.
Individual Education Plan Help
Designed to assist parents in the IEP process; uniting the family and the school to design an comprehensive IEP that will help get the services needed. This includes observation of your child at school, and suggestions for addressing problem behaviors, academic difficulties or social or play issues.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy focuses primarily on the thoughts and emotions that lead to certain behaviors. This psychotherapeutic approach addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of goal-oriented explicit systematic procedures.
Direct Observation
On-site observation, monitoring and behavior analysis, family and teacher’s techniques to ensure continuous behavior improvement. All services are conducted in the child’s natural environment that is familiar and comfortable that allow for naturally occurring opportunities of the behaviors.
Empowering Positive Behavioral Change
Highlights of Our Effective Therapy Solutions
Personalized Approach
Tailored strategies for each child’s unique needs.
Expert Guidance
Led by experienced professionals in behavior analysis.
Long-term Success
Sustainable improvements for lifelong impact.
Proven Techniques
Utilizing research-backed methods for best outcomes.
About our Behavior Analyst
Paula Goldberg, BCaBA
Boca Behavior Therapy was founded in 2001 by Paula Goldberg, BCaBA. Paula is a Board-Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst who has been working with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other special needs as well as neurotypically developing children. Paula has provided extensive consultations, developed and overseen individual ABA programs in various school programs, trained teachers and staff, provided early intervention programs, and school and home-based intervention programs in South Florida. Boca Behavior Therapy specializes in providing comprehensive individualized behavior analysis and modification services to help families.
We’re here for you !!
All services are conducted in your home, school or other natural environment. No office based services provided other than phone or video consultations.
Please contact us with questions.
Boca Behavior Therapy, LLC
Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach, Florida
561-859-9960 or by email at bocabehavior@gmail.com
Hours
Mon-Fri: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Weekends & Early Evenings by Appointment
Our clients frequently express their delight and satisfaction with our personalized ABA services.
Paula Goldberg made a huge difference in our child’s progress and development.
Melissa R.
Parent
Paula has had a positive impact working with children in the classroom and improving problem behaviors.
David H.
Educator
I am thrilled with the noticeable improvements in my child’s behavior. Our family is much happier as a result.
Jessica T.
Accountant and Mom