What the First Month of ABA Actually Looks Like Families usually arrive with a question nobody answers directly: what will actually happen. Not the philosophy of the therapy, not the research base, but the first four weeks. Who comes, what they do, what is expected of...
When a Child Needs Another Way to Communicate Some children arrive at three or four years old with very little spoken language, and the question the family is really asking is not whether to wait longer. It is whether there is another way for their child to be...
Five Therapies, One Team When a family walks out of a first evaluation with a list of recommendations, the list almost never has one thing on it. Speech therapy. Occupational therapy. Maybe feeding. Maybe ABA. And suddenly that family, which a month ago had one worry,...
What a Speech Evaluation Actually Looks Like The first time you bring your child in for a speech evaluation, you almost always arrive with two fears: that he is going to be tested like at school, and that he will not cooperate. Neither usually happens, mostly because...
What ABA Therapy Actually Is (And What It Isn’t) It is eleven at night and you have been reading about ABA therapy for two hours. One page says it is the most evidence-backed treatment for autism there is. The next one is an autistic adult writing that it harmed...
