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01/31/2026

💗 Friday's Teen Social Group: Values, Confidence & Connection 🎨✨

In last night’s girls’ teen social group, teens practiced listening, turn-taking, and giving positive peer feedback while reflecting on personal strengths, values, and how friendships can change over time. Through discussion and art, the group supported confidence building and values-aligned social growth in a warm, supportive environment.

01/31/2026

❄️ Children practiced turn-taking, waiting, and cooperative play while collaboratively making homemade snow, followed by hands-on sensory exploration and imaginative play.

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01/30/2026

📦🚗 Thinking outside the box—literally! 🚗📦

Today in social skills group, our kids got creative with cardboard! Using big cardboard tubes and recycled materials, they designed tunnels for cars to zoom through, race, and explore together.

We love turning everyday recyclables into open-ended play because it sparks imagination, expands play schemes, and invites cooperative play—sharing ideas, taking turns, problem-solving, and building something together. ✨♻️

Proof that sometimes the best toys aren’t toys at all. Just cardboard, creativity, and great friends. 💙

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01/23/2026

🌸 A little peek into our week at Mayflower 🌸

This week was filled with connection, creativity, and so much growth 💛

Our learners worked together beautifully—sharing materials, trying new activities, and practicing important social skills across activities. We saw skills generalize naturally through sensory play, cooperative games, and shared projects, all while having fun and learning side-by-side.

One of the most meaningful moments of the week was our flower-making activity 🌷
Using the press machine, the children thoughtfully designed flowers for loved ones “just because.” Many chose to make flowers for their moms (and dads too!), carefully selecting colors based on what they knew their loved ones would like. So much intention, love, and perspective-taking went into each creation 💕

These are the moments we cherish—where learning feels joyful, social, and full of heart.

✨ Fun
✨ Connection
✨ Growth
✨ Learning together

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01/21/2026

When children have big emotions or intense tantrums, it’s completely natural for adults to want to stop the behavior by raising their voices, taking control, or pushing for compliance. Many of us were taught that this is how children learn.
But when a child’s brain is in fight-or-flight, the thinking part of the brain is no longer accessible. In those moments, learning goes out the window. Reasoning, consequences, and demands won’t land the way we hope.
💛 What does help is safety.
When children feel safe, seen, and understood, their nervous system can begin to settle. In those moments, we model calm, regulated behavior so children can borrow our regulation until they’re able to find their own.
✨ We also know that regulation skills are best taught proactively—during calm moments—so children have tools to use before emotions escalate.
Regulation isn’t about control.
It’s about connection, trust, and support.
This belief guides our work every day at Mayflower 🌿

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01/18/2026

🐝 Teaching Turn-Taking Through Play!

Some of my favorite games to begin teaching important social skills are simple cause-and-effect toys, like this bumblebee tree game.

To a child, it’s just a fun game — pulling out leaves and waiting to see if the bees wake up. But underneath the fun, your child is practicing big skills:
• Waiting
• Taking turns
• Tolerating anticipation
• Staying engaged while someone else has a turn

These are the same skills children need for:
• Sharing toys
• Participating in circle time
• Playing on the playground
• Having back-and-forth conversations

We often start one-on-one with an adult, so waiting is short and success comes quickly. Once your child feels confident, we gently expand the skill to peers, just like you’d see in our social skills groups.

We can also build in imitation and communication — buzzing like a bee, flying it through the air, and sharing smiles and laughter together.

Small games like this may seem simple, but they are often the first step toward bigger moments: friendships, classroom readiness, and confident social interaction.

✨ This is what intentional, play-based ABA looks like at Mayflower

01/16/2026

🧦 Getting Dressed: One Small Step at a Time 👕

For some children with autism, getting dressed can feel overwhelming when it’s presented as one big task. At Mayflower Early ABA Services, we break skills down into small, teachable steps so success feels achievable and empowering.

This is an example of a movable task analysis, where each step can be moved over to the “all done” column as it’s completed. This helps children:
✔️ Stay focused
✔️ Avoid feeling overwhelmed
✔️ Clearly see what comes next
✔️ Feel proud of their progress

Visual supports like this reduce distractions and limit too many choices, which can make routines much smoother. As independence grows, these visuals are gradually faded, allowing the child to complete the routine on their own with confidence 🌱

Small steps. Big confidence.
That’s the Mayflower way. 💙

01/16/2026

✨ Yesterday’s Two-Peer Social Skills Group was pure magic. ✨

Through naturalistic, play-based ABA therapy, we followed the motivation of the learners—and watched their ideas grow beautifully. What began as simple free play with cars evolved into a car wash, then a car dealership, and soon transformed into an ocean adventure complete with sharks, whales, boats, and even a science experiment guessing what would float or sink!

Throughout the session, the children worked side by side—laughing, guessing, sharing ideas, and building play together. When the timer went off and they weren’t ready to move on, they confidently advocated for more time. And when it was time to transition, they collaborated to clean up, showing flexibility and teamwork.

This single play sequence created endless opportunities for:
✔️ Social connection
✔️ Turn-taking
✔️ Accepting others’ ideas
✔️ Sharing space and materials
✔️ Pretend play
✔️ Communication and self-advocacy

This is the heart of what we do at Mayflower Early ABA Services—learning through joy, connection, and meaningful play 🌱

01/10/2026

🚗 Cooperative Play in Action at Mayflower Early ABA Services 💙

Today we captured something really special — nearly 20 minutes of cooperative play as our kids built, shared, and played with cars together.

In ABA, cooperative play means children are not just playing side-by-side, but engaging with each other — taking turns, initiating, responding, negotiating ideas, and staying connected around a shared activity. That’s exactly what you see here.

Because the play was going so well, we didn’t rush to stop it. At Mayflower, we closely observe the children’s cues — their engagement, joy, communication, and regulation — and we flex activities to fit the moment.
When kids are successfully practicing skills like:
• turn-taking
• social initiation
• shared problem-solving
• flexible thinking

…the best teaching sometimes is simply to let it keep going ✨

We would never want to abruptly end an activity when meaningful learning and connection are happening. That’s when real growth shows up.

This is the heart of our ABA model — child-led, relationship-based, and grounded in real social experiences.

So proud of these kids and the beautiful teamwork they showed today 💛

01/05/2026

We hope all of our families enjoyed a restful holiday break!
Mayflower is so happy to return to our regular schedule of one-on-one sessions, social skills groups, and teen groups beginning January 5! We look forward to reconnecting and continuing to support meaningful growth in the new year.

01/01/2026

✨ Happy New Year from Mayflower Early ABA Services! ✨

We’re so grateful for our families and the growth we’ve shared this past year. As we enter the New Year, we’re excited for continued learning, meaningful progress, and welcoming new families and new team members into our Mayflower community.

Here’s to a year full of growth, connection, and hope. 💙

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