Definitely helped alot. I dont know what to do without them. But trying to find the ABA team that works for you and your child is the key! We’ve had bad experiences on the our first company not knowing that there are better ones. We started at 3 as well and would have kept only ABA till 5 and not send my kid to school just yet, if I knew then that teacher’s in school are not equipped with ABA techniques. We experimented a year without ABA last year and it was not good because he lost his skills, kept stimming and just stayed in his room mostly of lack of routine, needed to learn more life skills on our end. Now back to ABA, its a life changer. Being a working mom, it was harder for me to do a sole parent training with only consultations. I wanted physical support and supervision.

My daughter has been in and out of ABA due to us moving. She's 13 now but started when she was 6. It is recommended a kid gets about 4 years I read somewhere. She has 6.5 hours of social therapy on Saturday and 10 hours on the weekdays after school. It used to be 15 hours a week.

We think it's useful because she wastes time just staring at frozen images of stuff on Youtube or rewinds to favorite scenes over and over again. She still reads books for little kids. She likes to interact with the therapists after all these years and they usually like her because they are usually female therapists and she isn't violent with them unlike some of other kids.

The drawback is we are paying for our own insurance due to my wife being a travel nurse. That's about $24,000/yr so Obamacare isn't cheap to us (4 people). We have to pay an extra $5,700 copay a year for 886 hours of ABA or $6.43/hr so it's a bargain but if you don't need it we could use the extra $5,700/yr.

It depends in where you are located. If I was not working fulltime, I would have put my child in a school that is 1 hr away from us but ABA school( private) but can be covered by the district as to the proper placement based on IDEA. We have suffered the worst of not having “ABA trained” special needs teacher, not having aides trained in a public school setting I did not know then what is a proper education for kids with special needs. This had lead us to alot of behaviors and IEP meetings. Research on school
Placement. There are alot
Of public schools that have good teachers and setups. We liked the County Setup. If he needs an aide, the hopes that they give you one. Advocate for an aide.
Most is hire a good lawyer if they keep denying and there is a need. God Bless and good
Luck!

Yes, definitely! He was in early intervention when he was almost 3. This was back in 2008, and he had at home ABA from the regional center five days a week. If I remember correctly, it was 2.5 hours in the morning, then 2.5 hours in the early afternoon. Then as soon as he turned 3 he was placed in the local school district. His after school session was an hour. Then when he was in first grade, there was a meeting to amend his IEP because his teacher, the rest of the team agreed he no longer needed it.

@A MyAutismTeam Member what do you do for school placement? Public school with aide or Private school? I’m considering where to send him next year but the public school so far has not offered an aide and I was wondering if he might be ok without one but reading your post makes me think he won’t be.

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