Maintenance in ABA Therapy pertains to long term retention of a learned skill after ABA interventions have been removed completely (i.e., removed reinforcement procedures, prompting procedures etc.). Maintenance Monitoring can be thought of as “check ups” - the BCBA on your child’s case will retest the skill in question periodically to ensure the skill has in fact been maintained, despite the removal of ABA Interventions.
Maintenance Monitoring is important in that we as ABA Practitioners want to ensure your kiddo keeps the skills they acquire during ABA Therapy long after we discharge them from our services. If you have a surgery, you typically receive several post-op visits to ensure everything has healed properly and remained the way it should. Maintenance Monitoring is similar.
In addition, Maintenance Monitoring allows for your BCBA to quickly re-introduce ABA Interventions if needed (i.e., if a Maintenance Check indicates the previously acquired skill is declining or has been lost completely since removing ABA Interventions)
As much as we LOVE working with each of our learners, our goal is for each learner to reach the point that they don’t need us anymore. Maintenance Monitoring is a CRUCIAL part of our learners reaching and MAINTAINING Independence!
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