You’ve arranged ABA therapy for your child, prepared for the first appointment, and wondered what the therapist will begin teaching. Then the session starts, and they spend much of...
A functional behavior assessment, or FBA, identifies why a child’s challenging behavior occurs by combining interviews, observation, and data. A functional analysis is a more controlled test used within...
The honest answer is that it depends, and no one has a single number. In the one peer-reviewed-style survey I could find, families who waited for ABA services waited...
About one in 37 eight-year-olds in Utah has been identified with autism, compared with one in 31 across the CDC’s national monitoring sites, according to University of Utah Health...
You have a diagnosis, or at least a strong recommendation from your pediatrician, and now you want to know how soon someone can start working with your child. How...
Your child’s crying got louder this week. The hitting came back, or one request now arrives twenty times in a row. If that started soon after a new ABA...
Generalization in ABA means a skill works beyond the exact situation where it was taught. The child who asks for a break with one therapist, at one table, using...
If your child receives ABA through Virginia Medicaid, you have probably heard that therapy is being capped at 20 hours a week. Here is where things stand in September...
To start ABA therapy, most families need: an autism diagnostic report, a referral if the plan requires it, the insurance card, parent ID, and any recent evaluations or IEPs....
A referral for ABA therapy is a written recommendation from a doctor stating your child has autism and should receive applied behavior analysis. Whether you need one depends on...