Getting Started with ABA Services
Everything you need to know to begin your child's developmental journey. Use this guide to navigate the onboarding process, prepare for your first meeting, and understand what to expect in the weeks ahead.
The Initial Meeting
Are we the right fit for your family?
You’ll speak directly with a Unity founder to get your questions answered and determine if our team is the right partner for your journey. To make this easy, we provided some FAQs below to help guide the conversation and ensure you get the clarity you need.
Clarity & Expectations
Ensuring there are never any surprises.
We’ll review Unity’s Service Agreements together to confirm expectations and schedule your child's assessments. Transparency is our priority—we want you to feel fully informed and confident in every detail before we move forward.
Clinical Intake & Assessment
Meeting the team behind your child’s development.
This is where you meet the clinical experts dedicated to your child’s growth. Depending on your circumstances, we’ll hold one or two meetings with you and your child to conduct the appropriate assessments and begin mapping out their personalized path.
Insurance Authorization
Simplifying the logistics.
We take the lead on working with your insurance provider to authorize all services. While we handle the paperwork, we’ll stay in close contact to align on a scheduled start date that works best for your family.
Begin Services
Official start of services.
With authorization secured and our plan in place, we officially begin your child's services. We hit the ground running, turning our shared vision into meaningful progress.
Our Framework
We will teach you our methodology throughout our journey together. To start, please familiarize yourself with the concept of a "step", "milestone", and "quest" by hovering over the examples below.
Lifting Head
Milestones represent major life accomplishments. Milestones act like progress checks as they help us identify whether or not we are learning. Each milestone occurs organically, so no forcing these. The child shows us when they are ready. We will continue to set the environment up, and teach the right lessons to ensure many milestones are achieved.
Tummy Time
Steps represent the individual units of progress. They should be difficult enough that a child will try, but not so difficult that they gives up. Each step is one increment forward from the last – meaning that the lessons of steps compound. Once enough steps have been complete, the child's understanding will have grown significantly. After a step is initially completed, it often moves to the Daily Quest Log where it stays until mastery occurs.
Associating Rewards
Steps represent the individual units of progress. They should be difficult enough that a child will try, but not so difficult that they gives up. Each step is one increment forward from the last – meaning that the lessons of steps compound. Once enough steps have been complete, the child's understanding will have grown significantly. After a step is initially completed, it often moves to the Daily Quest Log where it stays until mastery occurs.
Sitting
Steps represent the individual units of progress. They should be difficult enough that a child will try, but not so difficult that they gives up. Each step is one increment forward from the last – meaning that the lessons of steps compound. Once enough steps have been complete, the child's understanding will have grown significantly. After a step is initially completed, it often moves to the Daily Quest Log where it stays until mastery occurs.
Crawling
Steps represent the individual units of progress. They should be difficult enough that a child will try, but not so difficult that they gives up. Each step is one increment forward from the last – meaning that the lessons of steps compound. Once enough steps have been complete, the child's understanding will have grown significantly. After a step is initially completed, it often moves to the Daily Quest Log where it stays until mastery occurs.
Climbing
Steps represent the individual units of progress. They should be difficult enough that a child will try, but not so difficult that they gives up. Each step is one increment forward from the last – meaning that the lessons of steps compound. Once enough steps have been complete, the child's understanding will have grown significantly. After a step is initially completed, it often moves to the Daily Quest Log where it stays until mastery occurs.
Walking
Quests are journeys to achieve meaningful accomplishments where a critical lesson is learned. The name quest helps us gamify the journey excite progress. Quests are "the big goals" which are made up of a series of steps which the child must complete in order to achieve an outcome. Quests can take anywhere from a day to many days to complete, but should never take more than one month of consistent effort.
