Arizona Behavior & Autism LLC September 2014

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Upcoming
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Reminders
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Equine Therapy AZ, Inc.
Sep 1 Labor Day
No School!

Picture Day
This year we will be
having a yearbook, put
on by Sara (one of our
moms) Dress for
pictures!
Sep 18
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Kudos to Dominique who spent over 10 hours on
Saturday the 26
th
dismantling and moving all of the
outside equipment, including panels, railroad ties
and barrels. She arrived at 7 am and didnt leave
until well after 4 oclock.

A big shout out and kudos to our friend Josh, who
came after work to help us move the 26
th
and
stayed late into the evening, even though he had
to work at 5 am the next morning. Thank you!
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Kudos to our staff who worked and
volunteered their hearts out the last
two weeks to get the old center moved
and the new center ready for our
kiddos to come back! (Megan, Chanel,
Alison, AJ & Robert)

Kudos to our very dear friend Dana,
who this month is celebrating a
milestone of ONE year of volunteering
with us! We love you Dana!!

Kudos to all of our NEW volunteers,
including Terry & Bryan Drake
(owners of one of the best breakfast
joints in Tucson, Biscuits), Savannah,
Joyce, Natalia and a Dr. Libby who is
bringing a lot of experience!! We also
would like to welcome back a
volunteer Ashley.
Monthly fees are due
on the 1
st
of the Month!
Check out our website
and facebook page!
15 volunteer hours
must be completed
before the end of the
year. Get a head start
on it and schedule a
visit with us :D
Birthdays
September 1
st

Mason

September 8
th

Lindsey

September 23
rd

Sue

September 29
th

Michelle
We would like to thank those
who have donated to our
organization.

ScriptSave, a business here in
Tucson donated over $1000
from a series of employee
fundraising activities.

Then, several employees
donated on top of that!! Thank
you Kristine for nominating
us to your place of work.
Our New View
Pretending to be Dinos
Sep 26,
27 or 28
Volunteer Meeting
Fall Themed! Come
hang out with us with
some activities, food
and games. Watch for
an email for exact
dates!

Field Trip
We will be going to the
childrens museum!
Sep 23
Oct 24,
25 or 26
Harvest/Fall
Festival Fundraiser
We will be having our
first fundraiser towards
the end of Oct. There
will be a horse kissing
booth, games and of
course, food!!



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Arizona Behavior & Autism LLC ABA Center
We would like to welcome and introduce two
new staff members who have joined our family
here!

Christopher and Monne will be doing
habilitation and respite care for some of our
families in Sahuarita.
Welcome to the team!!

Wed also like to take some time and welcome
our new students to our center, Levi, Leo and
Carlos as well as welcome back to school some
former students, Mason & Ashlin. We are
excited to be working with you and seeing how
much you grow over the year!
Color of the month: Blue
Letters of the month: C & D
Theme: Transportation

We will be learning about cars, planes, trains,
ships and anything that has to do with
transportation. Our field trip will be to Childrens
Museum, where they have a pretty cool
transportation area!
This Month at ABA

Working with our Future BCBAs

Because Arizona Behavior & Autism is such a unique
center, both in size and environment; we are a great
place for future BCBAs to come in and work on their
supervision hours. Currently, we have 3 of them
working closely with us.

Paul: An instructor from the SALT Center (provides
services to students with learning disabilities) at the
UofA.

Lauren: A student at the UofA and a fulltime teacher
in Sunnyside District. She was with us during the
summer as well.

Joh Hector PhD: Has conducted over 200
experiments in language processing and is a
professor of qualitative and quantitative methods.
What is ABA, Applied Behavior Analysis?
Behavior analysis focuses on the principles that explain how learning takes place. Positive reinforcement is one
such principle. When a behavior is followed by some sort of reward, the behavior is more likely to be repeated.
Through decades of research, the field of behavior analysis has developed many techniques for increasing useful
behaviors and reducing those that may cause harm or interfere with learning.
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is the use of these techniques and principles to bring about meaningful and
positive change in behavior.
Taken from http://www.autismspeaks.org/. This website is a great resource for all of those working/interacting
with those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
All parents: Most private schools have been notified
by an STO that evidence of elaborate tax credit
switching has surfaced. Additionally, there has been
some activity of parents paying donors to donate on
their childs behalf. This is a Federal offense. Please
be advised that illegal switching activity of any
sort will not be tolerated. This is precisely the type of
illegal behavior that could bring down the entire tax
credit scholarship program.

ARS 43-1503 A School Tuition Organization cannot
award, restrict or reserve scholarships solely on the
basis of a donors recommendation. A taxpayer may
not claim a tax credit if the taxpayer agrees to swap
donations with another tax payer to benefit either
taxpayers own dependent.

We at the ABA Center LLC, depend on these tax
credits to allow our students to attend and would feel a
great loss for so many children if this were no long
available.


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Meet our
Volunteer
Coordinator
Social Skills Classes
Lindsey comes to us with
such a passion for our
program, and she has
jumped right in! We cant
wait for her to get settled and
see what new fun things she
has planned for our
volunteer program.

Lindseybrost.angels@gmail.
com
704-291-6980
Equine Therapy Internships
Wed like to introduce and thank our very first
intern, Kelsey from Prescott College, who is
actually coming to the end of her summer
internship with us. She has been working
with us both giving therapeutic lessons and
inside the center as a teaching assistant.

Emma, our second intern, is from Andrada
Polytechnic H.S., and has just started with us.
She will be performing general healthcare on
our wonderful therapy horses as well as
learning some social and language cues so
she can know how they are feeling.
Horse Spotlight
Dynamite has been with
Horses with Wings over 5
years! She has had a long
life filled with children;
before our program, she
was a kids barrel horse! She
is one of our smallest horses
and while she may look
young, she is actually over
28 years old! Looking good
Dynamite!
Equine Therapy AZ, Inc. Horses with Wings
Our summer horse camp went so well, that
we would like to continue doing
something like them throughout the year.

We will be using horses as the friends for
helping the kids to develop and practice
new skills.

It will be focusing on social skills and
interacting with our animals and will occur
once a week for about an hour.

Keep an eye on our website and facebook
page for details.

You wont want to miss these!
Benefits of therapeutic riding

There are many benefits that come with
therapeutic horseback riding. Its way more
than just sitting on a horse.

1. Increases in fine motor skills such as
dexterity in fingers.
2. Increases in gross motor skills, which is
the ability to use larger muscle groups.
3. Improvements in core strength.
4. Aids in balance and coordination.
5. The horse along with the staff and
volunteers create a social situation that
aids in building social skills.
6. Sensory integration is also worked on by
introducing the rider to various textures,
sounds, smells and sights.
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This is exciting news
everyone!!

Horses with Wings will be having our
very first Arena Obstacle Challenge,
open to all those who ride!! There will be
food served and a ribbon and prize
ceremony after the challenge. There will
be 8 judged obstacle held in one of our
2
arenas, much like a trail class in a show.

For additional information, visit our website, facebook
page OR go to www.actha.us .

Questions: suekrider.angels@gmail.com