Prism Early Advancement Center

Donuts with Dad 🍩 On Friday, we celebrated Father’s Day with a Donuts with Dad event. Our amazing dads spent the morning playing games and making crafts with their kids, and enjoying each other’s company over donuts and coffee. ☕️We wish all of our current and former Prism dads a very Happy Father’s Day! Thank you for all of the joy and love you bring!

Air Hockey 🏒 Our newest toy is a hit! Just in time for the Stanley Cup finals, we’ve been having our own kid-sized hockey fun at Prism. Our kids (and staff) are loving this interactive game that allows them to work on hand-eye coordination and social skills at the same time.

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.