ABA team questions

[salondon]

Hi all

Trying to organise our ABA team and draw from others' experience

• How old is your child?
• How many hrs/week ABA do they do?
• How many are at home and how many at school/early years?
• How many tutors do you have?
• How frequently do you run the workshops and are they with the lead tutor or always with supervisor/consultant?
• What happens when tutors are off sick/emergency holiday - who covers the sessions at school?

Thanks
SA

-4 and a half
-16 now (was 30 but is now at school half time)
-16 at home, school would not allow in an ABA tutor, but we work with the lSA and she comes to our workshops. 3 hour a week our lead tutor goes in to school and works with LSA. (This may be changing, we are waiting for a tribunal decision on this, LEA don't want this to happen).
-Workshops approx once a month
-When home tutors are sick my DH or the nanny have to step in and do the best they can (usually take him out for an activity like swimming or zoo, or work on sensory stuff rather than the actual programme)!

• DS is 4
• around 25 hours per week
• our tutors are in school for 15 hours and then he has four 2.5 hour sessions after school.
• we have 3 tutors
• we have team meetings every 2 weeks with all tutors and our consultant. The meetings last 2-2.5 hours and I find that having the meetings so frequently is really useful as we can ensure that all tutors are carrying out programs identically and any issues can be addressed so that problems aren't carrying on for long.
• if a tutor is unavailable we try to get one of the others to cover or we keep our DS off school. (There is NO way we would send him without our tutors!)

Forgot one question: we have two tutors

How old is your child?
7

• How many hrs/week ABA do they do?

35

• How many are at home and how many at school/early years?

22/13

• How many tutors do you have?

3 plus cover staff overlap (we don't pay for that)

• How frequently do you run the workshops and are they with the lead tutor or always with supervisor/consultant?

We have monthly team mtg with supervisor, us and 3 tutors 4 times year we have consultant mtg with all staff

• What happens when tutors are off sick/emergency holiday

ABA cancelled and we are not charged - who covers the sessions at school? There is a cover person trained but if they are also unavailable then stays off school.

Thanks
SA

How old is your child?
nearly 6

• How many hrs/week ABA do they do?

approx 32.5hrs

• How many are at home and how many at school/early years?

approx 50% at school, mainstream but one year behind

• How many tutors do you have?

4 but only 3 go to school. in the past have usually had either 3 or 4

• How frequently do you run the workshops and are they with the lead tutor or always with supervisor/consultant?

approx every 6 weeks for 3 hours. always with consultant but we have no supervisor (other than me!)

• What happens when tutors are off sick/emergency holiday - who covers the sessions at school?

i don't send him in, i phone in to tell office he will be absent, the ABA doesn't charge if they aren't there. I effectively 'teach him' at home for that session. Unless there is time to phone the others and see if anybody can cover for the one who is off.

hth

Is school absence okay if ABA staff isn't going in?

Thanks for your responses.

They are with my son because his statement says his placement is 'education otherwise than at school' under s319 and 'PT attendance at school', so they can just mark it as ed o/wise and not absence. Also as he has 35 hours then even if a session is missed he is still receiving more hours per week education than would be considered FT for most children. so we can't really be criticised for not providing education. If his team meeting falls on a day he should be in school then we just miss the school session or swap it.