The Centre for Early Autism Treatment aims to provide your child with an individualized and systematic treatment plan delivered through the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis. The CEAT clinician's role is to assess your child's learning needs, devise an individualized curriculum for your child, and to train and oversee your treatment team. Further, CEAT clinicians welcome the opportunity to work collectively with teachers, special educators, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physio-therapists and other professionals to ensure a balanced and appropriate education for your child.

A CEAT supervised programme requires a high degree of parental participation. Curricular targets and intervention techniques are developed together with parents to ensure relevance to daily life, ease of implementation and ongoing generalization of learned skills. Parents are also asked to hire and employ a treatment team, a group of two to five individuals who can work with their child in two to three hour sessions. Those individuals receive initial and ongoing training and supervision from your CEAT clinician.

CEAT acknowledges the importance of your child's education and treatment and aims to ensure that clinical decisions are made as a team. Thus a hierarchy of consultation is provided. A three-tiered system of consultation allows for the most comprehensive service; the delivery of these components (frequency, duration, cost) depends upon the service model chosen.

Immediate Consultation: Immediate Consultation is provided by your primary clinician, who may be any member of CEAT staff. Through the immediate consultation visits, your clinician will provide ongoing assessment of your child's needs, continued revision of the curriclulum and training of your therapy team.

Clinic Supervision: Clinic Supervision takes place when two CEAT clinicians attend a therapy session. During this visit, your primary clinician works closely with a senior clinician to ensure that curricular targets are developed and implemented appropriately and to troubleshoot any areas of difficulty.

Clinic Review: Clinic Reviews take place with your primary clinician and one or both CEAT Directors. During reviews, parents and clinicians review the past six months of treatment in relation to both the curriculum and the behaviour support plan. Future goals of treatment are collectively determined and a Treatment Plan for the next six months is established.