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A Caregiver Guide to Navigating ABA

The skill your child learns in therapyisn't theirs yet.

There's a reason progress disappears the moment you get home, and something you can do about it, starting tonight, in the moments you're already living.

Written by a BCBA Neurodiversity-affirming For ages early-learner to young adult

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The Missing Piece — A Caregiver Guide to Navigating ABA, by Tiffany Tường Vi Nguyễn, M.S., BCBA
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Skills that last in real life
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If this sounds familiar

You've felt this moment more times than you can count.

Your child does something beautifully in session. You feel a flicker of hope. Then the therapist leaves, the week happens, and by the weekend it's like it never existed. That's not your fault, and it isn't your child's either.

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They can do it with the therapist. So why does it fall apart the second we're home?

The generalization gap
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I love their team. But I still feel like a spectator in my own child's progress.

The observer feeling
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Nobody handed me a guide. I'm just guessing, hoping I'm helping and not making it worse.

The missing handbook

You were never the missing piece because you were doing something wrong. You were missing because no one ever showed you the part that was always yours to play.

The idea at the heart of the book

A skill learned in therapy is not yet a skill a child owns.

New skills become real when they're practiced across the ordinary moments of a real life: breakfast, bath time, the grocery store. And the person present for those moments isn't the therapist. It's you.

What's inside

A clear path through the parts that feel hardest.

Sixteen chapters across four parts, written in plain language, grounded in research, and built for real family life. No clinical background required.

Why progress slips

The science of generalization, in language that finally makes sense.

Communication

Helping skills travel across people, places, and settings.

Predictable routines

Building the structure that makes everything else possible.

Sensory needs

Reading what a body is asking for, and responding with care.

Emotional regulation

Regulation first. Learning second. Always in that order.

Smoother transitions

Paths through the moments that tend to fall apart fastest.

Partnering with your team

What to ask, what to expect, and how to be heard.

What good ABA looks like

How to recognize ethical, affirming, individualized care.

For your whole team

Shared language for SLPs, OTs, teachers, and family.

Who it's written for

Parents and caregivers new to ABA or on a waitlist · families years into services · grandparents and siblings · BCBAs and RBTs who want stronger caregiver carryover · SLPs, OTs, and teachers aligning across settings · and anyone who has ever thought, "I wish I knew what to do."

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The Missing Piece
Introduction · Chapter One
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  • The grocery-store moment that reframes what therapy is really for
  • What "generalization" means, and why it changes everything
  • What good, affirming ABA actually looks like in practice
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Tiffany Tường Vi Nguyễn, M.S., BCBA
Who wrote this

A BCBA who believes the most important work happens after the therapist leaves.

Tiffany Tường Vi Nguyễn, M.S., BCBA is the owner of Social Potential, a caregiver-led ABA practice serving multilingual families across the California Bay Area. Her work centers on one conviction: meaningful, lasting change doesn't happen in the therapy room alone, it happens in the everyday moments of a family's life.

She wrote The Missing Piece for the caregivers she meets every week: the ones doing everything right, who were simply never told the part that was always theirs to play.

M.S.Behavior Analysis
BCBABoard Certified
NDAffirming practice
3Languages served

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The Missing Piece

A Caregiver Guide to Navigating ABA, by Tiffany Tường Vi Nguyễn, M.S., BCBA.

This website and book are for educational purposes only and do not constitute clinical advice, a diagnosis, or a recommendation for any specific intervention. All clinical approaches should be individualized by a qualified clinician. Social Potential is not a BACB ACE provider; this content does not constitute CEU or PDU credit. © 2026 Tiffany Tường Vi Nguyễn, M.S., BCBA · Published by Social Potential.