DGH, Inc. will provide goal-oriented and task-oriented intensive, one-on-one interventions to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders, in the individual’s home or community environment. DGH, Inc. will create an individualized treatment plan in collaboration with families. Our services will assist participants in achieving successful home and community living through structured support, reinforcement, modeling, and behavior management by implementing Evidence-Based Practices.

These interventions are intended to:

• Prevent or defuse crises
• Promote developmental/social skills growth
• Improve the participant’s positive self-expression and interpersonal communication
• Provide behavior management skills
• Improve the participant’s ability to effectively function in the home and community

DGH, Inc. will provide interventions to individuals in the following domain areas:

• Behavior
• Communication
• Academic and Cognition
• Social
• Play
• Transition

Destiny’s Group Home, Inc. implements Evidence-Based Practices in the delivery of supports and services in response to each individual’s unique needs and desires, works collaboratively with families and other professionals, and promotes independence.

Evidence-Based Practices Include:

• Antecedent-based Interventions
• Computer Assisted Instruction
• Differential Reinforcement
• Discrete Trial Training
• Extinction
• Functional Behavioral Assessment
• Functional Communication Training
• Naturalistic Interventions
• Parent Implemented Interventions
• Peer-Mediated Instruction/Intervention
• Picture Exchange Communication System
• Pivotal Response Training
• Prompting
• Reinforcement
• Response Interruption and Redirection
• Self-Management
• Social Narratives
• Social Skills Groups
• Speech Generating Devices
• Structured Work Systems
• Tasks Analysis
• Time Delay
• Video Modeling
• Visual Supports