G.R.O.W. provides individualized, evidence-based Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for children and families in Long Beach and the surrounding area. Our services span six core areas, delivered primarily in our Long Beach clinic, each built around your child's goals. As skills develop, we extend into home, school, and community settings to help them generalize across every environment your child navigates.
Our core ABA programming uses flexible, individualized teaching methods, including Discrete Trial Teaching, to build foundational skills and prepare children for more advanced learning. Every program is data-driven, reviewed regularly, and adjusted based on real progress, not a fixed script.
This isn't rigid, one-size-fits-all ABA. Our approach blends structured teaching with naturalistic strategies and ongoing clinical judgment, so therapy adapts to your child in real time instead of asking your child to fit a fixed protocol. The result is ABA that looks and feels different from what many families expect: responsive, individualized, and built around your child's strengths.
ABA works best when it doesn't stop when the session ends. We coach and support parents directly, so skills carry over into daily routines at home.
You know your child better than anyone, and we build on that instead of asking you to become a therapist. Our goal is to give you practical tools that make you more effective at reaching your family's goals, through a collaborative, multi-phase process: guided instruction, session observation, and hands-on application.
You'll have a direct line to your child's clinical team and a program built to fit your family's life, not the other way around.
Everyday life is full of skills that make the biggest difference at home: sleeping through the night, eating a wider variety of foods, using the toilet independently, coping with frustration or change, and building the independence to handle daily routines..
We target these practical, functional goals because they're the ones that build real independence and give families peace of mind, including:
We build the foundational skills your child needs to succeed in a classroom, starting in our clinic. Our focus is on learning to learn: sustained attention, following multi-step instructions, group participation, and the flexibility to shift between activities and expectations throughout the day.
These are the building blocks of a successful school experience, developed through structured practice before a child ever steps into a classroom. As skills strengthen, we coordinate with your child's school team to make sure that progress carries over into the school day.
Functional communication is the foundation everything else builds on: a child who can reliably express wants, needs, and ideas has a tool that works in every setting, not just in therapy. We focus on expanding language while building genuine motivation to communicate, so children learn the power of communication.
From early language and vocabulary growth to back-and-forth conversation, progress is measured by whether it holds up in daily life: at home, at school, and in the community.