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 We
also continually engage in services
that we provide at either no cost or at
very low cost. These services include:
- Activities targeted at increasing access
to effective services for all families
such as political lobbying, speaking with
insurance companies to expand coverage
of behavior analysis services, providing
training, supervision, and mentorship
to future behavior analysts, and teaching
behavior analytic coursework at the university
level.
- Activities targeted at increasing the
professional knowledge base related to
the behavior analytic treatment of autism
such as conducting applied research, disseminating
applied research results through presentation
at professional conferences and publication
in professional journals, and participating
in agencies that fund applied research.
- Activities related to providing free
or low-cost consulting services to some
families. Please note that when deciding
whether to provide free or low-cost services
to any given family, we consider the following:
- the needs of the child
- the level of family need
- the family's previous efforts to help
themselves
- the degree to which accepting the child's
case will likely help other children and
families.
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Formed originally in 1998 as Fabrizio/Moors
consulting, our company reorganized
itself as the Organization for Research
and Learning
(ORL) in 2007. We originally
began as a small organization in Seattle
with two staff members who served four
children during our first year. Since
then, we have grown to include ten clinical
staff members who serve approximately
65 children and families within our
private practice and provide outreach
services. Outreach services that ORL
staff members have completed have affected
hundreds of children from
places such as Toronto, Pennsylvania,
Texas, California, and British Columbia.
Throughout this growth
and expansion process, we continue to
maintain high
levels of quality in the services we provide.
We continue
to contribute to the autism
and behavior analysis communities both
in
the Puget Sound area and across the
United States and other
countries.
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Rooted firmly in B.F.
Skinner's contingency analysis
, we at ORL believe the following:
- All children can learn
- Children have the right to not only
effective intervention but also to
efficient
intervention
- Children have the right to
intervention
that is based on science
and that has been shown
to be
effective through scientific study
- Families have the right to receive
services individually tailored to the
unique
needs of their children and
their family as
a whole
- Clinical practice should inform applied
research and applied research should inform
clinical practice
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