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Our Practice, Our Mission, & More About ABA Therapy

Our Mission

Providing quality ABA services to our communities and ensuring that all individuals with Autism and other developmental disabilities receive specialized treatment for their specific needs so they and their families can flourish.

Founding Wildflower: Our Story

Founding Wildflower:
Our Story

Sheryl Stafford, BCBA, LBA
Founder

Sheryl and her husband Bruce married in 1990, have 5 children and 4 grandchildren. After Bruce retired from the military, they settled in Texas and began their teaching careers. They have lived in Fredericksburg, Texas since 2010. Having been a special education teacher, Sheryl has used ABA methods in the classroom to help non-verbal children learn to communicate, children without social skills learn to make friends, aggressive children eliminate their problem behaviors, and so much more.  Throughout her years teaching, she recognized an increase in Autism and other behavioral concerns.  She has an undeniable passion for individuals with special needs and a strong desire to help them make progress on their goals and improve their quality of life by teaching them the skills they need.  Her special interest and compassion for helping and guiding children with behavioral challenges and other developmental delays led her to obtain certification as a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and create Wildflower Behavior Services to provide ABA therapy services in Fredericksburg, Texas for those who need it.

Sheryl is personally dedicated to helping children with autism and other special needs to receive the highest quality ABA services available through our comprehensive and individualized ABA treatment programs.  It is amazing how well ABA interventions work, and this is due to the fact that ABA is based on scientific principles that hold true for all behavior. ABA methods are so effective because they use children’s motivation to help them learn new skills, such as communicating, sharing, taking-turns, and being flexible. Using this proactive and positive approach, children with autism and other developmental disabilities can learn appropriate ways to interact and form relationships with others. The focus on reinforcing desired behavior makes using ABA methods a fun and enjoyable experience for all.

Wildflower Behavior Services strives to deliver accurate and up-to-date ABA services so that all those who interact with children with autism and other special needs have the most powerful tools available to help these children meet their goals. We invite you to learn more about the unique and individualized ABA treatment programs that we offer at Wildflower so that you can see how we can help you to make a positive difference in a child’s life! 

We love what we do and are grateful for the opportunity to work with you and your family.

Founding Wildflower: Our Story

Sheryl and her husband Bruce married in 1990, have 5 children and 4 grandchildren. After Bruce retired from the military, they settled in Texas and began their teaching careers. They have lived in Fredericksburg, Texas since 2010. Having been a special education teacher, Sheryl has used ABA methods in the classroom to help non-verbal children learn to communicate, children without social skills learn to make friends, aggressive children eliminate their problem behaviors, and so much more.  Throughout her years teaching, she recognized an increase in Autism and other behavioral concerns.  She has an undeniable passion for individuals with special needs and a strong desire to help them make progress on their goals and improve their quality of life by teaching them the skills they need.  Her special interest and compassion for helping and guiding children with behavioral challenges and other developmental delays led her to obtain certification as a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and create Wildflower Behavior Services to provide ABA therapy services in Fredericksburg, Texas for those who need it.

Sheryl is personally dedicated to helping children with autism and other special needs to receive the highest quality ABA services available through our comprehensive and individualized ABA treatment programs.  It is amazing how well ABA interventions work, and this is due to the fact that ABA is based on scientific principles that hold true for all behavior. ABA methods are so effective because they use children’s motivation to help them learn new skills, such as communicating, sharing, taking-turns, and being flexible. Using this proactive and positive approach, children with autism and other developmental disabilities can learn appropriate ways to interact and form relationships with others. The focus on reinforcing desired behavior makes using ABA methods a fun and enjoyable experience for all.

Wildflower Behavior Services strives to deliver accurate and up-to-date ABA services so that all those who interact with children with autism and other special needs have the most powerful tools available to help these children meet their goals. We invite you to learn more about the unique and individualized ABA treatment programs that we offer at Wildflower so that you can see how we can help you to make a positive difference in a child’s life! 

We love what we do and are grateful for the opportunity to work with you and your family.

ABA Therapy Goals

Positivity

Positive reinforcement is the core of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy. Our work with clients never strays from this fundamental value. Rewards range from simple positive gestures like a high-five to play time with a favorite toy or game.

Acquire Skills

Acquiring and developing skills is the goal of any treatment plan. The goals for each client vary and no two treatment plans are alike. Methods are often play-based and can include DTT, PECS, Social Skills Training, NET, and Verbal Behavior Training. Having fun is a key element.

Motivate Growth

The ultimate goal is to foster an environment where a child can reach their fullest potential and apply what they have learned OUTSIDE of sessions. This could range from successful social playdates to joining the workforce as an adult.

Insurance We Work With

In addition to the insurance listed below, Wildflower accepts private pay enrollments for ABA therapy.

  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Evernorth
  • Medicaid
  • UnitedHealth
If you don’t see your insurance provider or service area but are eager to work with Wildflower, contact us to explore options.
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Wildflower Service Locations

We provide ABA therapy services in the following counties:
  • Blanco
  • Burnett
  • Gillespie
  • Kendall
  • Kerr
  • Kimball
  • Llano
  • Mason

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Verbal Behavior Training

Definition:

Verbal Behavior Training teaches communication using the principles of ABA and the theories of behaviorist B.F. Skinner. Verbal Behavior Training focuses on motivating the learner to use language by connecting words with their purposes and creating opportunities to use words. The goal is to teach the learner that using words appropriately helps them obtain needed and desired objects, people and activities, make meaningful comments and reciprocally communicate rather than simply labeling objects. Verbal Behavior Training typically focuses on teaching the learner verbal operants (verbal skills) such as manding (requesting), echoics (exact imitations) tacting (commenting) and intraverbals (conversational skills).

Natural Environment Teaching (NET)

Definition:

Natural Environment Teaching (NET) utilizes the principles of ABA to teach within the natural environment of the learner. In NET clients acquire new skills through fun and reinforcing play activities. Goals are taught directly by inserting “trials” into natural and fun play. Many learners on the Autism spectrum have limited play skills so NET focuses on pairing clients preferred items and activities with new activities in an effort to expand the learner’s interests and teach new skills

Social Skills Training (SST)

Definition:

An evidence-based method that helps individuals with Autism understand and participate successfully in social situations.

Example:

A behavior technician (BT) is teaching a child how to greet another person when they first meet. The BT has chosen to show the child a video of the behavior being modeled. 

The BT will then mimic the video with the child until it is completed successfully. Successful completion is positively reinforced with a gesture (high-five), a toy, or the child’s favorite snack.

Picture Exchange Communication System® (PECS®)

Definition:

PECS® allows people with little or no communication abilities to effectively communicate using pictures. A child or adult with Autism can communicate thoughts, wants and needs, and anything else that can be displayed via an image.

Example:

There are 6 phases to any PECS® task:
  1. How to communicate: Single pictures for items or activities the individual really wants; like a toy or snack.
  2. Distance and persistence: Still using single pictures, the individual is taught to generalize the want or need in different environments and with different people.
  3. Picture discrimination: The individual learns to select from two or more pictures to communicate their favorite things.
  4. Sentence structure: The individual learns to construct simple sentences using an “I want” card/picture followed by a picture of the item they want.
  5. Answering questions: The individual learns to use pictures to answer the question “What do you want?”.
  6. Commenting: The individual learns to respond to questions using pictures. Sentence structures begin with I see, I hear, It is, etc.

Discrete Trial Training (DTT)

Definition:

Breaking down a skill into smaller (discrete) elements. Each element is systematically taught by the behavior technician utilizing tangible positive reinforcement along the way.

Example:

A behavior technician (BT) is teaching a child colors. They begin by teaching blue. The BT asks the child to point to blue and rewards the child with a small toy. The BT then repeats this action with red, then yellow, and so on.
After the child successfully points to all colors individually, the BT will begin to teach the child how to say each color.