SOAR HISTORY
Ian and Jen Goldstein
Who are Soar's co-founders?
QPM
What are Quarterly Progress Meetings?
Set-up, Theme, Variation, Close
What are the four parts of a JAR?
Monthly data sent out to the center leadership team on Soar metrics
Virtual chat bot designed for RBTs to ask questions related to their work at Soar Autism Center - trained on internal documentation provided to RBTs during training and is intended to be another mechanism for accessing this information.
What is Rosie?
Continuous Improvement, High Expectations, Fun, Collaboration, Trust, Belonging
What are Soar's Core Values?
MDC Meeting
What are Multidisciplinary Care Meetings?
The amount of items on the ESDM fidelity scoring system
What is 13 items?
ESDM-CC, 97153 hours, All-staff turnover, 4-wall EBITDA
What are the big 4?
This person was Soar's first ESDM certified therapist (outside of Will Martin).
Who is Laurie Allegra?
First OT at Soar
Who is Kate Brough?
ADL
What are Activities of Daily Living?
This item measures: Use language slightly more advanced than children’s current level to support vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatics
What is K) Adult's Language for Child's Language Level
ESDM-CC Growth Score Target
What is 50 skills?
Jen and Ian Goldstein's children's names
Who are Noah and Max Goldstein?
Aubyn Stahmer, Laurie Vismara, and Lisa Wallace are a part of this pivotal group at Soar
What is Soar's Clinical Advisory Board?
NDBI
What is Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions?
This item measures: Use of teaching strategies that respect and promote children’s autonomy, assent, and independence
What is C) Instructional Techniques Application
This metric measures the inter-observer agreement between our clinical leaders during norming meetings. The goal is to have an average of 80% IOA or 20% variance.
What is ESDM Fidelity IOA?
This app is contains a range of information that is pertinent to day-to-day clinical leadership responsibilities. This includes: Client Progress Overview, Oversight dashboard, Soar Foundations Client Management, TPR view for clinician checklist, MDC planning, and other relevant information. Answer with the FULL CORRECT NAME of the app.
What is the Client Progress App?
Quebec (Central Park), Gilbert, Newtown
What are the founding centers across Soar operating states?
AAC
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
To score a 5 for this item, you must show:
Child moves smoothly from one activity to the next with minimal frustration
Adult prepares the child verbally or visually before the change
Transition includes choices, social support, and emotional warmth
No downtime or confusion; activity flows purposefully
Child shifts without physical prompting; movement and attention are guided through conversation, cues, and shared anticipation
What is M) Transitions between activities
The metric looks at the percentage of clients who leave Soar (after at least 90 days) in a “non-regrettable” way - either by reaching age-appropriate skill levels or having reached our age limit.
What is Child graduation rates?
Answer with the correct %'s:
Soar’s policy is that the caregivers agree to commit to xx% of the treatment recommendation with the goal of committing to xx% in order to move forward into treatment.
75%; 90-100%