Prism Early Advancement Center

All the bubbles 🫧 Finding time for favorite activities is an important part of your day at Prism. We love discovering our kids’ favorite things and giving them opportunities to enjoy them. Here’s one of our adorable kids enjoying one of his favorite things… bubbles!

Swinging into the weekend in our new sensory swing! 🤸🏻‍♀️

Fire Truck Visit 🚒 On Friday, we had a visit from our friends at . They taught us about fire safety, showed us what their truck can do, and demonstrated how they put on their gear. We look forward to their visit every year and are grateful to have first responders that are so kind to us. Thank you for keeping us safe and being such great friends of Prism! 🧯🧑🏾‍🚒

Fact Fishing 🎣 This week’s theme was Oceans, and we spent our time learning all about its beautiful creatures. Here’s one of our kids “fishing” for different ocean animals. He counted, named, and answered questions about each ocean animal as he caught them.

Mother’s Day 🌷 Our fabulous Prism moms joined us last Friday for our Mother’s Day celebration. After enjoying breakfast together, Gabby from taught a mommy & me art class. Moms and kids sat together at our big tables and created masterpieces 🎨 We hope our Prism moms (and all moms!) had a wonderful Mother’s Day.

Simple Pleasures ☺️ This photo captures so many important aspects of early childhood development: Joy, play, independence, and safety. This little learner is playing independently and appropriately with a toy that was introduced to her this week, while her most loved items are right next to her keeping her comfortable. We love to see these little moments!

Continuing Education 🤓 This week, one of our BCBAs, Emma, participated in a 2-day workshop at the University of Miami. There, she learned about a modern approach to ABA called Skills Based Treatment (SBT). SBT is learner-led and focuses on building rapport and functional communication while keeping the learner safe and happy. It also requires training in order to be implemented properly. Here she is with the founder and leader of the training, Dr. Greg Hanley. Emma will be back at Prism tomorrow to share what she learned with Leo and the rest of our clinical staff. Thank you to Dr. Hanley and our friends at UM for this special opportunity!

Occupational Therapy 🤲🏼 We are an ABA center that understands the value of Occupational and Speech therapy. This is why we have an open door policy to outside service providers. We welcome OTs and SLPs into our clinic so that they can work with our shared clients. This allows the client to receive outside therapies during their regular therapy day, and results in authentic collaboration between providers. Our RBTs and BCBAs are active participants in sessions, and we incorporate one another’s strategies into our own work. This relationship benefits not only the client, but us as service providers. We are all part of the same team and have so much to learn from the expertise of other professionals.

Hippity Hoppity 🐰 We had the best tike celebrating Easter with our little bunnies. We had an Easter egg hunt, decorated eggs, and read books about Easter. We love celebrating holidays at Prism!

Community ♾️ Today is World Autism Awareness Day and we were honored to spend the morning with the Coral Gables autism community as they raised the autism flag at the headquarters. We were invited by our friend Mary from , and loved hearing her speak about the work that her and the Coral Gables community have done to increase awareness, acceptance, and inclusion. Friends of Prism and also shared inspiring words about the trailblazing efforts of The City Beautiful.