Xcite Steps Australia

Xcite Steps is a growing and innovative company in San Diego that provides unique career opportunities for motivated professionals working with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Working at Xcite Steps means being part of a collaborative team of professionals from a diverse background of experience and education, that provides the highest quality of care to children and teens throughout San Diego County.

Joining our team at Xcite Steps means being a part of the most highly recognized mental health provider in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Xcite Steps has a pristine reputation, and is regarded as one of the best providers in San Diego County for ABA services. Our reputation is a direct reflection of our highly qualified staff, and you can be a part of that! It is Xcite Step’s top priority to ensure our staff have extensive training and experience, and are among the highest qualified and best trained in the field.

Xcite Steps also offers competitive pay, paid drive-time, and free, intensive, on-going training in the field of Applied Behavioral Analysis and other behavioral health applications. Every staff member at Xcite Steps must complete an intensive 3-day training, as well as participate in on-going continuing education to ensure our staff are always providing the most cutting-edge treatment. Xcite Steps provides the opportunity to further your education and knowledge in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment and Applied Behavioral Analysis, and to train with the best in the field. Our Directors and ABA Supervisors come from all across the country, and come from various backgrounds to provide the most well-rounded training and on-the-job experience.

XciteSteps San Diego ABA Interventionists are the highest qualified and best trained in the field. We strive to hire individuals with strong and diverse backgrounds, who together can provide the most naturalistic and well-rounded therapy to each and every client. They are enthusiastic, energetic, skilled professionals, who have a passion for working with children, teens, and adults on the Autism Spectrum.

It is Xcite Steps’ top priority to ensure our Interventionists have extensive training and experience, which is why Xcite Steps requires that all incoming Interventionists must hold at least a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology, special education, or a related field, and most of our Interventionists come with at least one year of practical experience. Unique to Xcite Steps, many of our interventionists are in the process of furthering their education in the field, pursuing advanced degrees, completed an advanced Master’s Degree, and/or BCBA Certification.

Xcite Steps’ Supervisors are held to the highest standards as well. Our Supervisors must possess a Master’s Degree in psychology, education, or a related field, and their Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). All of our supervisors are required to have at least two years of related experience working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and expertise in approaches to intervention based on the science of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Xcite Steps is made up of a team of the most highly trained mental health providers in San Diego County. Every new employee at Xcite Steps undergoes an intensive, 3-day, 24-hour series of in-person training modules before working with any child. Each of the three days is broken down into different topics with a combination of direct lecture training, group activities, and role-play to ensure our Interventions can generalize and apply skills learned. At the end of each training day, the trainees take a quiz, which they must pass with 95% accuracy in order to advance to the next day. After initial training is completed, all of our Interventionists are required to complete monthly on-going staff development trainings that include topics such as Differential Reinforcement, Establishing Operations, Functional Analysis, Advanced Play Skills, Behavior Mapping, Sensory Strategies, and Prompting. In addition to our rigorous training schedule, Xcite Steps conducts bi-yearly performance reviews to ensure that our Interventionists are maintaining optimal performance levels. All Xcite Steps ABA clinical staff members are trained on a wide range of evidence-based treatment modalities to utilize across settings, including:

- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
- Behavior Modification
- Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
- Pivotal Response Training (PRT)
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- TEACCH
- ProACT

In addition, upon beginning employment with Xcite Steps, and prior to any interaction with children, every staff member must undergo a full Livescan and FBI background check to be cleared for service. Xcite Steps takes great concern in the safety of their clients and takes great pride in the quality of the services provided. Each interventionist at Xcite Steps reflects those values.

Xcite Steps Behavior & Therapy believes that every person should have opportunities for personal growth, happiness, success, and an enriched and empowered lifestyle.

Xcite Steps was created to provide compassionate commitment and care to kids, youth, and adults who experience a disability, to promote learning and to provide them with their tools they need to maximize their successes in areas of behavioral management, socialization, play, communication, language, daily living, and academic skills, while also feeling connected with others. Our programs are focused around quality and collaborative care, supporting personal growth and enriched lifestyles in the most naturalistic and opportune settings.

Xcite Steps Behavior & Therapy supports, enriches, and empowers children and teens in San Diego who have it harder than the average child due to developmental or cognitive disabilities. We give them the personalized attention, encouragement, skills and emotional support to succeed.

Furthering academic, social or physical development, enjoying recreational activities, exercising and having the company of friends are all important to a child’s psyche. A child or teen experiencing challenges may have a harder time establishing and managing these needs and a mentor can provide the structured and balanced approach to make after school and weekend hours both productive, social and fun.

All our services are tailored to each individual child or teen using ABA principals and a big brother/big sister model to assist them through their struggles. The role that the our fun and engaging staff plays enables them to reach participants on an important level to coax an overall maturation.