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Evner Behavior Services

Evner provides ABA and Transition services to those in North East Florida.

10/22/2026

Take a look at the cubby on the right! 👀💚

We’ve been working hard on executive functioning skills, including organizing materials by color and subjects, maintaining an organized space, and taking responsibility for personal belongings.

What may look like a simple, organized cubby actually represents so many important skills:

🧠 Executive functioning and organization

🌈 Sorting and categorizing by subjects

📚 Maintaining and caring for materials

🙌 Building independence and responsibility

🔄 Generalizing skills into everyday routines

One of the best parts of ABA is seeing the skills we teach carry over into natural environments and daily routines!

I’d call this a WIN! 💚

10/16/2026

Learning should be FUN! 🌈🧲🔤

Who says learning has to happen with worksheets and sitting at a table? Sometimes the best learning happens when we PLAY!

Today, we’re building more than just shapes! We’re working on fine motor skills, problem-solving, creativity, colors, spatial awareness, following directions, and communication—all through play!

When we incorporate a child’s interests and make learning engaging, we create opportunities to build skills naturally, increase motivation, and make learning something they WANT to do!

Play is learning, and learning should be FUN! 💛

10/13/2026

Today was all about FAMILY, sunshine, and making a trip to the beach a little smoother! ☀️🌊💕

When you live in a state surrounded by water and sunshine, you can’t help but want to get out and enjoy it!

We’ve been working on so many skills to make family outings like today safer, more successful, and FUN! From local swimming lessons and water safety to following safety commands, walking with family, stranger and dog safety, and learning safe leisure skills in the sand and water.

Because learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom or therapy session! Sometimes it happens with sandy toes, salty air, and a whole lot of sunshine. 🏖️

The goal isn’t just learning new skills. It’s helping those skills carry over into everyday life so families can spend less time worrying about the logistics and more time making memories together. 💙

Real-life skills. Real-world experiences. More opportunities for family fun!

08/25/2026

🌈 Regulation skills are learned through practice, connection, and play!

At Evner Behavior Services, some of our favorite learning moments don’t look like “work” at all. 💙

Here, we’re incorporating our regulation tools into play—using familiar characters, visuals, pretend play, and preferred activities to help make big concepts feel concrete and meaningful.

Through playful interactions like this, we can work on skills such as:

✨ Identifying emotions and body cues
✨ Recognizing when our body needs a break
✨ Choosing a calming or regulation strategy
✨ Practicing functional communication
✨ Building flexibility and coping skills
✨ Learning how to return to an activity when we’re ready

Sometimes Stitch needs a snack, a break, some movement, or a little help too! 😉 When children can practice these skills with toys and characters they already love, we can model regulation before they are in the middle of a difficult moment.

Our goal isn’t simply to teach children to “calm down” or comply. We want them to develop a toolbox that helps them understand what their bodies are communicating, advocate for what they need, and access strategies that actually work for them.

Because regulation isn’t about having a perfectly calm child—it’s about helping children build skills for navigating their world. 💙

08/24/2026

Water Safety Is Everyone’s Responsibility 💙

For children with autism and developmental disabilities, water safety is especially important. Wandering and elopement can happen quickly, which is why having multiple layers of protection can make such a difference.

We put together this Northeast Florida resource guide to help families easily find:

🏊 Swim lessons & adaptive swim programs
💰 Swim lesson grants & funding opportunities
🧩 UF Jacksonville CARD resources
🚨 JaxReady/JSO wandering & emergency resources
🐾 K-9 Scent Preservation Kits
🛡️ St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office SAFE Program
💦 Duval & St. Johns County water-safety resources
✅ Practical safety steps families can put in place now

Swimming skills are an important layer of protection, but they should always be paired with active supervision, secured pools and doors, alarms, life jackets when appropriate, and an individualized elopement/emergency plan.

📌 Save this guide and share it with another Northeast Florida family who may need these resources.

08/12/2026

📚✨ Learning happens everywhere!

A trip to the library is more than picking out a good book—it’s a great opportunity to practice meaningful, real-life skills through ABA! 💕 At Evner Behavior Services, we love taking learning beyond the table and into everyday environments where skills can work in action.

Today’s library adventure included working on following directions, staying with an adult, making choices, waiting, appropriate library behavior, communication, independence, and safely navigating the community. 📖🌟

Every outing is an opportunity to build confidence, independence, and skills that can be used for a lifetime. 💗

Building skills beyond the therapy room. 🌎✨

08/10/2026

🎒✨ Back to School We Go! ✏️🍎

Wishing all of our amazing students, teachers, and families a safe, happy, and successful return to school! 💙

At Evner Behavior Services, we know that sometimes a little extra support during the school day can make a BIG difference.

📚 Did you know we offer in-school ABA services?

We can support communication, transitions, social skills, independence, classroom routines, behavior reduction, and more—all while collaborating with families and school teams to help our learners thrive! 🌟

💙 Insurance options available when the child’s insurance plan approves ABA services within the school setting
💙 Private-pay options also available
💙 Individualized support based on each learner’s needs

Here’s to new routines, new skills, new friendships, and lots of growth this school year! 🍎📓🚌

08/06/2026

To most, this looks like kids playing in a sensory bin.

To us, it’s practicing communication, social interaction, waiting, sharing, flexible thinking, fine motor skills, and problem-solving—all in a natural, motivating environment.

Because the best learning often looks like play. 💙🩵

08/04/2026

Car rides don’t have to be stressful. 🚗💙

Many challenging behaviors happen because a child doesn’t yet know what they can do instead. Rather than focusing only on what to stop, we teach what to do.

On this ride, we practiced:
💜 Safe sitting
💜 Staying calm while parents drive
💜 Enjoying independent leisure activities
💜 Keeping our items with us instead of maladaptive behaviors
💜 Waiting and riding safely to our destination

By teaching functional leisure skills, setting clear expectations, and reinforcing safe choices, car rides can become calmer, safer, and more enjoyable for the whole family. Small moments like these create meaningful, lifelong skills—one ride at a time.

07/31/2026

☀️ Splashing Into Friday! 🦆🌊

At Evner Behavior Services, we know some of the biggest learning happens when kids are having fun! Today’s water play was packed with opportunities to build meaningful skills while making a splash.

🐥 Through play, we worked on:

* 🗣️ Functional communication (“my turn,” “more,” “help,” “all done”)
* 🧩Turn-taking and sharing
* 👀 Joint attention and engagement with others
* 🧠 Following directions and problem-solving
* 💙Fine motor skills through scooping, pouring, and grasping
* 💛 Waiting, flexibility, and tolerating changes in play
* 🌟 Social interaction, imagination, and cooperative play

Because in ABA, play isn’t a break from learning—it is learning. Happy Friday from the Evner team! 💙🦆

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Jacksonville, FL

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8:30am - 4pm

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http://www.evnerbehaviorservices.com/

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