Sunshine Advantage curriculums are a therapeutic age-appropriate engagement systems and frameworks with instructional scaffolding used to facilitate ABA treatment goals aligned with insurance requirements and to reinforce treatment clinical integrity.
At Sunshine Advantage, we deliver intensive ABA therapy through a thoughtfully scaffolded system of age-appropriate engagement platforms—tools that ensure children learn through meaningful, developmentally aligned experiences. Our approach integrates a standardized therapeutic curriculum, evidence-based assessments, and individualized treatment plans designed to address the core deficits of autism while building communication, independence, and participation.
We do not provide education. We use a carefully selected curriculum to organize and deliver ABA therapy goals within real-world contexts and familiar daily routines—ensuring each child’s learning is relevant, measurable, and generalizable.
We implement The Creative Curriculum® by Teaching Strategies™ not as a classroom model, but as a clinically supported ABA engagement framework for young children ages 2–5. This structured platform offers thematic, play-based routines and activities that allow our clinical team to embed treatment goals into predictable daily experiences.
Used as a treatment support structure, the curriculum provides:
The curriculum is adapted into our ABA treatment model using our own color-coded learner level system, ensuring every child receives material and interventions aligned with their behavioral and developmental profile.
Our therapists utilize the 10 developmental domains of the curriculum not as academic subjects, but as clinically structured environments to introduce and reinforce ABA treatment goals:
All content is clinically filtered and ABA-aligned, used only as a therapeutic platform for targeting treatment goals. No instruction is delivered for academic acquisition or educational enrichment.
To ensure every therapeutic engagement aligns with treatment goals, we use three core ABA assessment tools to guide and customize clinical plans.
Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program
The VB-MAPP is used to assess and program for communication, social, and learning readiness within the context of ABA. It allows us to:
VB-MAPP data allows us to select age-appropriate activities from the curriculum that can serve as prompts for targeted ABA instruction—such as embedding manding goals into snack routines or tacting within circle time visuals.
The Vineland-3 provides a clinically validated assessment of adaptive functioning. It is used to:
Tiered Implementation:
Both ABLLS-R and AFLS are used to assess functional skill progressions in self-help, language, classroom readiness, and community independence.
Together, they support ABA targets beyond clinic-based play, allowing therapists and parents to collaborate on carryover routines in home and public settings.
How It All Connects
Each element works together to ensure your child receives individualized, medically necessary ABA therapy delivered in a developmentally appropriate, engaging, and emotionally safe format.
Come see how our clinical curriculum framework is designed to meet your child’s needs with intention and love. Visit us in Toms River, NJ.
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ABA Therapy for Children in NJ, NC, SC, FL & NM
Preschool and afterschool services available in NJ only.
Our mission at Sunshine Advantage is to provide every child in our care with the tools they need to grow and succeed.
