Children's Learning Connection - Orange County, CA

What kind of progress can your program make with my child?

CLC’s goal is to help each child reach his or her potential. Some children who receive early, intensive behaviorally-based intervention make tremendous progress in all areas of development, and are able to function without intervention services in a typical school setting. This progress has been documented in the research.

It continues to be challenging in the beginning stages of therapy to determine which children will have the most positive outcomes. In most cases, once learning readiness has been established, a treatment prognosis can be discussed. Factors that can affect a child’s prognosis include:

• Parent involvement and parents’ ability to carry over skills taught in the treatment program
• The child’s age at onset of treatment.
• Cognitive ability (cognitive ability may be difficult to determine before learning readiness has been established)
• Severity of primary diagnosis
• Co-morbid diagnosis (e.g., hearing loss, childhood apraxia of speech)
• Receiving the appropriate frequency of intervention.
• Receiving the appropriate type of intervention