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We have had our blog up and running for a while, but we wanted to take a minute to reintroduce ourselves and reach out to those that may have just come across our organization. 

Welcome to the In S.T.E.P.P.S. Blog! We are thrilled you found us! 

Click around to read a little bit more about us and get to know our team and what we do. We have many ideas in the works to make our blog more relevant to our followers so we hope you keep checking back for new posts. You can subscribe to our blog directly on this page. 

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We are always continuously coming up with new ideas and programs so follow us and join us on the journey as we "STEPP" ahead together!

Join IN STEPPS at the TACA San Diego Chapter Meeting!

In STEPPS will be presenting on PRT as an effective intervention for Autism at the TACA San Diego chapter meeting on March 24! Check out the flyer below. Hope to see you there! 

Autism Researchers Coming Together!

We are excited and proud to announce that our Directors, Yvonne Bruinsma and Erin McNerney, are co-authors on an important position paper published yesterday in the prestigious Journal for Autism and Developmental Disorders.  This position paper has an impressive list of authors that include some of the biggest names in current research on Autism Treatment and we are thrilled that In STEPPS was able to contribute to this important work!

The paper is titled: Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder. It describes how the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) evolved from Discrete Trial Training to naturalistic teaching methods like PRT and ESDM that take developmental theories into account. It also describes common elements in naturalistic developmental intervention models demonstrating that these models have more similarities than differences. In short, the paper makes a strong case for autism researchers and practitioners to come together and work under the NDBI umbrella in order to bring improved understanding of the interventions to parents and funding agencies, and the most up-to-date, high quality services to our kids.  

We would be happy to email the paper to any of you that would be interested in reading it, but below is the link if you would like to download it from your own computer.

Download Your e-Offprint (PDF file) Your 'Online First' electronic offprint is now available! Download your PDF file using the following link: http://www.springer.com/home?SGWID=0-0-1003-0-0&aqId=2805611&download=1&checkval=2302d5fc550199d1f9115bd719ac2a6e If the PDF file does not open automatically, please copy and paste the URL into your browser window. Please note that your free e-offprint will only be available for four weeks! Your article will be assigned to a specific journal issue. After the production of that issue has been completed, you will be notified by email and a new, paginated e-offprint with the final cover of the respective issue will become available to you as a free PDF-download. Any additional (printed) offprints or posters you might have ordered will then be shipped to you.

IN STEPPS is Expanding!

Hi Friends! We hope this latest post finds you all well. Going back to school can be a hectic time, so hopefully everyone is back in the swing of the routine and successfully adjusted. 

Wow, another busy Summer has come and gone. It is hard to believe that we celebrated our 4 year anniversary in July. Time sure flies! We have accomplished so many wonderful things, worked with amazing clients and families, and grown our agency bigger than we could have imagined. And we aren't ready to stop yet! There are some great things ahead for us that we are excited to share with you. To start with, IN STEPPS is now serving North San Diego county. This gives us the incredible opportunity to reach even more families in need of quality services and take our model beyond our Orange County roots. Hooray! Don't worry, we will continue to serve families in the OC area.

Here is the important information for those that are interested:

Two of our most experienced BCBAs, trained in PRT, will begin working with families beginning mid-October. Specifically, we will begin accepting insurance (Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield/Magellan, AETNA, and UBH/Optum) and private pay clients beginning in October and San Diego Regional Center soon after. We provide 1:1 and Parent Consultation/Supervision services in-home and in private preschools using PRT. 

We will begin by serving the following cities and areas:

San Marcos

Oceanside

Carlsbad

Leucadia

Solana Beach

Cardiff by the Sea

Encinitas

Poway

Vista

La Costa

La Jolla

Please let us know if you need any information about our program or check out our website: www.instepps.com

We will be happy to answer any questions you have, so don't hesitate to reach out to us.

 

As always, we continue to thank you all for your support! We wouldn't be where we are today without you! Keep checking back for updates on our program and services. There will be more good things to come!