About Us

History

ICan-B was established back in August 2015. The organization started providing Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services in the Los Angeles County region. Currently, the organization has expanded to Orange, Ventura, and San Mateo County in the United States of America. In 2019, Dr. Wong Li Wei founded ICan-B Asia. ICan-B Asia has extended its outstanding ABA services to Hong Kong and China. The organization aims to provide the best possible ABA therapy and treatment to individuals with autism and other special needs. On a bigger scale, our goal is to use the science of behavior across all possible areas to make humanitarian contributions. The organization has also launched soccer and social skill programs. Aside from behavioral services, soccer, and social skill camps, the organization is also launching animation projects that will carry a message of global unity and important social messages for children all around the world.

Mission & Values

Mission Statement

ICan-B’s mission is to make social contributions globally through the use of the science of behavior.

Core Values

All ABA therapy programs designed by our clinical staff are specifically tailored for each child, and are based on the LEAD philosophy:

Learn: Programs are individually designed for each family and child to facilitate LEARNING of skills in different areas. (Social, communication, adaptive self-help skills, etc)

Effective Programs: Each program designed for our families and children are constantly modified and changed to remain its EFFECTIVENESS.

Achievement: One of our core values is to ensure our programs teach essential skills to our families and children in order for them to ACHIEVE their goals in life.

Data Driven: Each program developed is research-based and DATA DRIVEN. Accountability is key at ICan-B Asia.

Our Team

Executive Clinical Director - Asia -
Wong Li Wei. PhD.,BCBA-D

Jose Davila Applied Behavior Analyst. PhD.,BCBA-D — Executive Clinical Director - North America -
Jose Davila. PhD.,BCBA-D

Juan Davila Applied Behavior Analyst — Director of Operations - North America -
Juan Davila

Executive Clinical Director - Asia -

Wong Li Wei. PhD.,BCBA-D

Dr. Li Wei “Willy” Wong completed his university and post-graduate studies in the United States, Los Angeles. He currently holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis. He is a Doctoral Level Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D) and has extensive clinical experience working with children and young adults in the past 12 years. Additionally, he has served as adjunct teaching faculty at National University and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to teach master-level courses. In 2018, Dr. Wong relocated back to Hong Kong and started to provide professional supervision and ABA training to practitioners, teachers and parents in both Hong Kong and mainland China. Dr Wong is fluent in English, Cantonese and Putonghua. In 2019, he collaborated with Dr. Jose Davila (Co-Founder of ICAN-B USA) and founded ICAN-B Hong Kong to provide top quality ABA therapy for individuals with autism and related developmental disabilities. ICAN-B Hong Kong also provides ABA related training to practitioners, teachers and parents in both Hong Kong and mainland China.

Dr. Wong’s career goal is to take what he had learned about human behavior in school and apply the knowledge to make a positive impact in society. Throughout his career, he had worked with many children with developmental disabilities. He is always amazed by how much progress these children made after receiving early intervention and behavioral therapy services. Therefore, Dr. Wong is especially interested in helping young children with developmental disabilities and making positive changes in their life and surroundings.

Executive Clinical Director - North America -

Jose Davila. PhD.,BCBA-D

Jose Davila has a Ph. D. in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and a Masters of Art degree in Teaching with a special emphasis in ABA. He is also a Doctoral Level Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D). He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Fernando Guerrero. He has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) since 2011. He has worked with children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities since 2008. He has consulted in homes, schools, day programs, developmental centers, and residential facilities. He has worked with different school districts (i.e., LAUSD, BUSD) regional centers (i.e., Lanterman Regional Center, North Los Angeles County Regional Center, East Los Angeles County Regional Center) and insurances as funding sources. Jose has been under the mentorship and supervision of Dr. David Pyles since 2011.

He has experience conducting Functional Analyses (FAs), FBAs (Functional Behavior Assessments), and skill assessments (e.g., AFLS, VB-MAPP, Vineland). He has developed behavioral interventions to successfully treat a variety of problematic behaviors (e.g., self-injurious behaviors, aggression, feeding). Aside from working in the applied setting, he has also taught practicum courses with master-level students at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He has provided BACB supervision for people working towards attaining their BCBA supervision hours. He has trained direct staff, teachers, parents, residential staff and managers, and day program staff.

Director of Operations - North America -

Juan Davila

Juan began working within the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in 2009. He began as a Behavior Therapist, providing behavioral services for individuals with developmental disabilities. During this time Juan gained knowledge on implementing behavioral plans as well as collecting data (e.g., DTT, Task Analysis, etc.). Within the next three years, in 2011, Juan joined an agency that specialized in providing Adaptive Skills Training (AST) services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. In the next five years, during his time providing AST services, Juan learned to implement programs that focus on community integration, safety skills, and/or daily living skills. Soon after, Juan was promoted to Case Manager of teams across the San Fernando Valley, where he was in charge of training staff, creating individualized programs for consumers, and providing parent training. Today Juan manages the Administrative Operations at ICAN-B, he is in charge of the Scheduling, Payroll, HR, and Claims departments, all while attending an ABA graduate program.”

Honorary Legal Advisor

David Lam Tai-Wai, J.P.

David Lam Tai-Wai is our honorary Legal Advisor. Mr. Lam studied sociology and psychology before he studied law and went on to become a solicitor in Hong Kong. In his professional career, Mr Lam practiced civil and criminal litigation, and commercial law. After many years of hard work serving the community, in the year 2009 Mr. Lam was awarded Justice of the Peace for “outstanding contribution to the community”.

Mr Lam is now a consultant solicitor with a reputable law firm in Hong Kong. In order to help eradicate school bullying, Mr Lam is now concentrating his efforts in helping people with legal solutions to school bullying and related issues. Proven studies have shown that children having autistic characteristics are more prone to be bullied at school than normal children. Mr. Lam is a member of the International Bullying Prevention Association. We therefore welcome Mr. Lam’s efforts in joining hands with us to create a safer and happier environment for all children in the community. We are grateful that Mr Lam has promised to contribute to our website a series of articles relating to school bullying.

What is ABA?

What is ABA? What is Applied Behavior Analysis:

Applied Behavior Analysis is the science of human behavior. The field studies human behaviors by examining the relationships between behaviors and variables in the environments. These causal relationships give us information on why certain behaviors are occurring and how to change these behaviors if necessary.

Why Applied Behavior Analysis?

There are numerous reasons as to why one should use the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis when it comes to teaching skills and changing behaviors:

Extensive research evidence to support ABA-based interventions
Take control of behaviors when the “cause” is in the environment
Each person is unique; thus, each intervention/program is tailored for each person
Data driven
Progress is observable through the use of objective measurement systems
Constant adjustments are made to each program to fit the person’s need

What is BCBA and BCBA-D?

BCBA stands for Board Certified Behavior Analyst and BCBA-D stands for Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral Level. In order to obtain the certifications, an individual will have to meet a set of requirements created by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). BACB was orginally formed in 1998 and it is a credentialing body for the field of behavior analysis. You can think of it as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the accounting field. BCBA is equivalent to that but in the ABA field. Although competenecies and exprtises vary among BCBAs, the certification informs you that this person has at least 1500 clinical hours in applying ABA concepts and strategies. Thus, when parents are looking for an ABA and autism service provider, it is a must to ensure that the organiztion has at least one BCBA on the staff roster to oversee their therapy and programs.

What are the current requirements to become a BCBA-D and BCBA?

BCBA-D:

Doctorate degree in psychology, applied behavior analysis, education, or a related field.
Completed 1500 clinical hours.
Passed BCBA exam.

BCBA:

Master’s degree in psychology, applied behavior analysis, education, or a related field.
Completed 1500 clinical hours.
Passed BCBA exam.

Differences between BCBA and BCBA-D?

The responsibilities of BCBA and BCBA-D are the same:

Provide BCBA supervision.
Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA).
Conduct Functional Analysis (FA).
Develop and supervise implementation of behavior-analytic programs.
Monitor and modify behavior analytic programs.
Provide direct ABA services to students.
Understand, maintain and follow BACB ethical guidelines.

The main difference between BCBA and BCBA-D is their educational level. A BCBA-D must have a doctorate degree in ABA or related field. This usually implies that the person has a solid foundation and understandings of the basic ABA concepts & principles, and an experienced practitioner (most of the time) in working with individuals with developmental disabilities.

To learn more visit BACB.com

Why Choose ICan-B Asia?

In today’s world, information on Autism treatment can be found easily with a few clicks of your mouse right in front of your computer. On one hand, you, as the parent of your child, can learn a lot about Autism treatment within hours by sitting in front of your computer. On the other hand, you might be exposed to a lot of misleading information on the internet as well.

As a group of professionals at ICan-B who have devoted many years working with the population with developmental disabilities, it is our obligation to disseminate and educate families and parents about Applied Behavior Analysis and effective treatments relating to Autism and developmental disabilities.

To simply put, when it comes to selecting effective therapy for your child, ensure the treatment you choose for your child is evidence based!

So why do parents choose ineffective treatments?

They are desperate for help
Trusted misleading claims about a certain treatment approach
Ineffective treatments might cost less

Using ineffective treatments will have a high chance of wasting:

Time
Resources

To children with autism, time is everything

Evidence Based Therapy

Teaching procedures are:

Studied extensively with strong experimental design
Replicable results
Peer-reviewed
Published in renowned journal literature

Why should you choose ICan-B as your ABA service provider?

First of all, each clinician at ICan-B only practices evidence-based teaching strategies. That is, we only utilize ABA strategies that have been extensively studied and shown to be effective in teaching new skills to children with Autism and other developmental disabilities. We also utilize different ABA based behaviour reduction techniques to manage their socially inappropriate behaviors.

Other factors that separate ICan-B with other providers:

1. The entire ICan-B Asia’s clinical team is led by the only Chinese speaking BCBA-D in Hong Kong.

2. All therapists at ICan-B are trained based on the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) task list provided by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). This is to ensure the quality of our services will be maintained at its highest level.

3. ICan-B is a U.S. based organization which has served over 500+ families in the past years. Our ABA therapeutic model has been proven to be effective and received positive reputation from different funding sources and families.

4. Frequent in-field supervision from our senior clinicians and BCBAs. Our senior staff and BCBAs are required to make at least two in-field supervision visits to each family monthly. This is to ensure our quality of services is maintained at its highest level and your child’s program is up-to-date.

5. You child is unique and so is the program developed by our senior clinicians. Throughout the entire therapy process, our clinicians will continuously assess your child’s needs and skill levels. This is to ensure the ABA program developed for your child is individualized and cater to him or her needs.

6. Clinical meeting will be held monthly by our clinicians to update you on your child’s progress and answer any question or concern that you might have.

7. Passionate yet scientific. Our clinicians love to work with their clients yet everything we do at ICan-B is evidence-based and driven by data.

8. One of the goals of our therapy is to bridge the gap of your child’s functional age and chronological age so he or she can have a meaningful life and be successful in the world.

A Letter for You

Welcome to ICan-B Asia!

At ICan-B Asia, our team main focus is to make important social contributions globally through the use of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). More importantly, our clinical staff are dedicated to providing individualized and effective ABA therapy to families and children who are in need of help.

As a clinician who has worked with the population with developmental disabilities for many years, I understand that seeing your beloved child who might have difficulties communicating and expressing himself or herself can be stressful and frustrating. At ICan-B Asia, we have staff of therapists and supervisors who you can fully trust and have confidence in. With an experienced and passionate team, your family and child will be given the support needed to succeed.

Your child’s time at this stage is very valuable. It will affect how much he or she learns and develops in our therapy. Thus, I personally invite you to contact us to come and discuss the services that we provide. Our team looks forward to meeting each one of you and working with your family.

Yours Sincerely,