Join us in unleashing creativity & connection
The Canvas Program is designed to provide a robust and inclusive framework for fostering creativity, communication, self-expression, and flexibilty in children, ages 2 and up.
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Provides a Global Assessment to test for socially important skills, including areas of flexibility and creative behavior.
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Program that targets skills such as communication, engagement, social, and derived relational responding.
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Robust data collection system from assessment to treatment to guide ABA therapy and ensure meaningful outcomes.
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Important guide for non-creative clinicans to implement effectively and fosters every child's autonomy.
2nd Edition of Canvas ABA-Art is coming August 1st!
Pre-order your copy today at the discounted rate ($120 value)
$100 Textbook
Discover What’s New in the Canvas Program 2nd Edition
We are thrilled to introduce the 2nd Edition of the Canvas Program, designed to enhance creativity, communication, and cognitive development in children. This new edition comes with significant updates and improvements, ensuring that our program remains at the forefront of art education and therapeutic intervention. Here’s what you can expect:
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Prioritization of The Domains of Creative Expansion
From assessment to treatment, Canvas now provides a fine-tuned and effective way to test and program for increasing all learners' abilities within the domains of creative expansion. Canvas now will include an expanded guide on the domains, their correspondence to developmental milestones and relational frames, an improved assessment process, and updated programming categorized by the domains.
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Improved RFT Focus Across Entire Program
Testing and goal-setting is now even more effective with our new approach, where program targets as well as Expand Lessons help you better identify what frames are being targeted and how to monitor, aligned to the domains of creative expansion.
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Comprehensive Expand Lessons
Improved Modality Options The 2nd Edition features an expanded range of our Expand lessons with improved modality options. Exach lesson will now provide an approach that allows you to customize each lesson by age-group and support need.
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New Data Collection System
Our new data collection system targets skills across the domains and aligned to developmental milestones. Revised global assessment, caregiver report, creative domains of expansion assessment, and Canvas program target assessment.
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Full-Color Assessment Materials
The 2nd Edition includes full-color assessment materials, making the assessment process more engaging and accessible for children. These vibrant materials help maintain interest and support accurate evaluations.
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Revised Canvas Program Targets
Aligned to US National Art Education Guidelines & Canvas’s Domains of Creative Expansion Our program targets have been revised to align with the latest US national art education guidelines and the Canvas’s Domains of Creative Expansion. This alignment ensures that our curriculum is both current and comprehensive, supporting the highest standards of art education. Additionally, you get a Canvas Program Target guide that identifies how to apply each target into a program, its mastery criteria, and what area of domains and relational frames that it is teaching!
A peek into the changes...
While these are not the final design, you can see how things have changed. Note that this is just a few examples of the things that are in the newer edition. We are excited for the updated version!
Why Canvas?
We have spent a generation teaching children with disabilities to label and ask for things. We chase after academic goals or medical necessity. What about skills that touch on the more human side of life?
The dreams, the emotions, the joy, the creativeness.
These make us who we are.
We have all seen the rigid thinking, the lack of creativity, or the lack of spontaneous joy and expression.
It is time for more than generic skills. Embedding training during the day is great, but what about making the day more than stumble through and catch the moments? What if we used Art as the medium to expand creativity, language, leisure expansion or social engagement?
The Philosophy Behind Art Behavior
“The main thing is not just putting paint on canvas. It’s putting it on in such a way that it will be pleasurable, satisfying, beautiful, or reinforcing.” - B.F. Skinner
Creative thinking is not only an essential skill that helps open access to other resources in their community but brings value to the world. B.F. Skinner has spoken on the need for cultivating artists in our world.
Read or listen to his talk at Guggenheim museum here>