2 Apr 2018
Behavior Frontiers Response
8yWe would like to clarify a few items mentioned in your review. While a bachelor’s degree is preferred, we do hire individuals with their bachelor's degree in progress for the behavior instructor (BI) position. With regard to the rate for behavior instructors, this ranges and is based on education and experience. We also pride ourselves on offering annual evaluations and annual raises based on quality performance, a benefit not always found at other agencies.
With regard to availability required, since we strive to provide our team members with the number of hours of work requested, we need sufficient days of the week in order to meet such requests. Most of our clients receive ABA services during after school hours, between 3-8 pm, so to provide a new hire 15 hours/week, a minimum of 3 days of availability is necessary. Saturdays are typically a requirement for behavior instructors during the first 6 months of employment, since many families need therapy on days in which the parents can be home to receive parent training.
In addition, Behavior Frontiers compensates our team members for drive time and mileage between clients, which is considered “work-related” time. To add further, our Scheduling Policy offers several options to behavior instructors if a client cancels, which include being paid to work with another client, to do administrative tasks at the office, or to read research articles.
As for the age of our clients, Behavior Frontiers understands that not only young children with autism need ABA services, so we offer our services to individuals with autism through young adulthood in order to help these clients to achieve independence. Although aggression is not a part of the autism diagnosis, a minority of our clients may have aggressive behaviors. All team members assigned to those clients receive Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training from the Crisis Prevention Institute so that they know how to competently deescalate and manage aggression. Additionally, our managers and BCBAs provide behavior intervention plans, which describe the specific interventions that behavior instructors should use to prevent and decrease aggression, as well as individualized training on how to use these interventions.
Finally, your comments about “scamming” insurance companies are unfounded and baseless. Families who have children with autism are fortunate to have benefits from their health plan to fund for the medically necessary treatment of ABA, which is a research-based treatment associated with client gains in IQ, language, and adaptive behavior. Behavior Frontiers is proud to contract with health plans to provide our clients with this valuable, and necessary ABA service!
We hope that this additional information is helpful in better understanding the full range of benefits offered to our employees. We truly value our employees’ time and dedication to our clients and we are committed to helping them succeed and advance in the field.
