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Initial Consultation & Intake
We meet with your family to review developmental history, discuss concerns, and identify meaningful goals.
Assessment in Applied Behavior Analysis
Understanding your child is the first step to helping them grow.
The journey begins with clarity. Our ABA assessments are more than evaluations—they're a way to truly understand your child's strengths, challenges, and how to best support them.
Every assessment is built around your child's needs and your family's goals, creating the starting point for meaningful growth and lasting progress.
Personalized Evaluation
Building a roadmap unique to your child.
What is an ABA Assessment?
A complete understanding before therapy begins.
An ABA assessment is a comprehensive evaluation that helps us understand your child's developmental profile across multiple areas that influence everyday success.
Through observation, standardized assessments, caregiver interviews, and skill probes, we gather meaningful information that guides every recommendation we make.
Communication Skills
Understanding how your child expresses needs, wants, and interacts with others.
Social Interaction & Play
Evaluating peer interaction, play skills, and social engagement.
Adaptive & Self-Help Skills
Assessing independence with daily routines and functional living skills.
Academic Readiness
Reviewing learning behaviors, attention, and readiness for educational success.
Emotional Regulation
Understanding coping skills, flexibility, and emotional responses.
Behavior Assessment
Identifying behaviors that may interfere with learning or everyday life.
Our Assessment Process
A thoughtful process designed around your child.
Every assessment is individualized. We combine clinical expertise, standardized tools, direct observation, and family input to build a complete picture of your child's current abilities and needs.
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Direct Observation
Our clinicians observe your child in natural environments such as home, school, or clinic settings.
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Standardized Assessment
Evidence-based assessment tools are selected based on your child's age, skills, and individual needs.
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Behavioral Assessment
When appropriate, a Functional Behavior Assessment helps determine why behaviors occur and how best to support change.
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Caregiver Collaboration
Parents and caregivers participate throughout the process to ensure recommendations fit real-life priorities.
The goal is not simply to collect information. It is to understand what meaningful progress looks like for your child and family.
Standardized ABA Assessment Tools
Evidence-based tools selected for your child's individual needs.
Depending on your child's age, developmental level, and treatment needs, our clinicians may use one or more standardized assessment tools.
These tools help identify current abilities, emerging skills, learning barriers, and areas that may benefit from targeted intervention.
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VB-MAPP
Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program
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ABLLS-R
Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills – Revised
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PEAK
Promoting the Emergence of Advanced Knowledge
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AFLS
Assessment of Functional Living Skills
Behavioral Assessment
Understanding why a behavior happens is the first step toward meaningful change.
For children who exhibit challenging or interfering behaviors, our clinicians may conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment, also known as an FBA.
An FBA helps identify the purpose or function of a behavior by examining what happens before it, what the behavior looks like, and what happens immediately afterward.
Identify Behavior Patterns
We examine when, where, and under what conditions challenging behaviors are most likely to occur.
Understand the Function
We determine what the child may be communicating or gaining through the behavior.
Create Targeted Intervention
Findings guide the development of strategies that teach safer, more effective, and more functional alternatives.
Behavior is communication. Our role is to understand the message and help the child build a more effective way to express it.
Caregiver Collaboration
Your knowledge of your child is an essential part of the assessment.
Parents and caregivers know their child in ways that cannot be captured through observation or testing alone.
We include family input throughout the assessment process so that recommendations reflect your child's daily routines, priorities, culture, preferences, and real-life needs.
Collaboration ensures that therapy goals are not only clinically appropriate, but also practical and meaningful for your family.
Family Priorities
We identify the goals that matter most to your child's everyday life and family experience.
Natural Routines
Assessment findings are connected to routines at home, school, and in the community.
Shared Decision-Making
Families participate in selecting goals and shaping the recommended treatment plan.
Inclusive Communication
Bilingual support helps families participate fully and comfortably throughout the process.
Outcome of the Assessment
A personalized blueprint for meaningful therapy.
At the conclusion of the assessment, your Board Certified Behavior Analyst reviews the findings and creates a clear, individualized plan for moving forward.
Assessment Deliverable
Detailed Clinical Report
A complete summary of findings, observations, assessment results, strengths, barriers, and areas of need.
Personalized Direction
Individualized Therapy Goals
Measurable goals are developed based on current strengths, emerging abilities, family priorities, and areas requiring support.
Recommended Next Steps
Treatment Plan & Service Hours
Recommendations may include service intensity, suggested hours, intervention strategies, parent involvement, and treatment priorities.
The Blueprint for Therapy
Purposeful, measurable, and meaningful intervention.
The personalized assessment plan becomes the foundation for therapy. It ensures that intervention is focused on the skills and behaviors that will create the greatest positive impact in your child's life.
As therapy continues, progress data is compared with the assessment baseline so the team can measure growth, refine goals, and make informed treatment decisions.
Why Choose Go Behavioral?
Every successful therapy journey starts with a meaningful assessment.
Our assessment process is designed to understand the whole child—not simply collect information. We focus on meaningful skills, family priorities, and long-term independence.
We combine clinical expertise, collaboration, and compassion to create treatment recommendations that truly reflect your child's needs.
Experienced Clinicians
Assessments are completed by highly trained professionals with extensive experience in Applied Behavior Analysis.
Child-Centered Evaluation
Every recommendation is tailored to the child's strengths, developmental level, and unique learning profile.
Functional Goals
Therapy recommendations emphasize practical skills that improve independence and everyday quality of life.
Collaborative Care
Families, educators, and healthcare providers all contribute to creating the best treatment plan possible.
Bilingual Services
We proudly support diverse communities with bilingual services that improve communication and family participation.
Every journey begins with clarity, purpose, and hope.
A high-quality ABA assessment unlocks opportunities for meaningful growth and provides the roadmap for long-term success.
Begin Your Child's Journey
Schedule an ABA assessment today.
The assessment is the first and most important step toward understanding your child's needs and building a personalized therapy plan that supports meaningful growth.
Contact our team today to schedule an Assessment in Applied Behavior Analysis and begin the path toward greater confidence, independence, and success.
Frequently Asked Questions
ABA Assessment FAQs
What is an ABA Autism Assessment?
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An ABA autism assessment is a structured evaluation that identifies behavioral, communication, social, and adaptive strengths and challenges. The information gathered is used to develop an individualized, evidence-based treatment plan.
What happens during an ABA evaluation?
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The evaluation may include caregiver interviews, direct observation, standardized assessments, skill probes, and a Functional Behavior Assessment when appropriate.
Why is an ABA assessment important?
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A comprehensive assessment provides the foundation for meaningful therapy by identifying strengths, areas of need, and intervention priorities while ensuring treatment goals are measurable and individualized.
Is an ABA assessment useful for all ages?
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Yes. ABA assessments can benefit children, adolescents, and adults. Assessment methods and recommendations are individualized according to developmental level and personal goals.
Get Started
Ready to take the next step?
Our intake team is here to guide your family through insurance verification, scheduling, assessment, and the beginning of services.