My son received ABA very early. First early intervention at 2.5 years old, then he received ABA in preschool from the local school district. He stopped when he was 6 years old. It helped him a lot…the earlier the better. Looking back I should have started services at 18 months. But his pediatrician told me to wait until he turns 2 years old because he might reach milestones.

In my opinion the more ABA and speech you can get early on will allow better communication and interaction when they start attending school. We started our now 7 year old in school at 5 and now have pulled him out and are doing full days of ABA, speech, OT, and PT combined with home schooling because he was being put into classrooms with kids his age and he was no where near functioning at his age level.

Thank you all for your feedback. This helps decide better for my son. 🙂

I had aba it was a big mistake remember there are good and bad out there my granddaughter was nonverable she's is currently 9 in a public school with an IEP and excellent teacher now I have to say she is talking more doing well in school has full support she attend music gym gets speech and ot which it is once a week she has made a beautiful turn around I have her in swim lessons and dancing school started playing soccer she gets her specials and also go out for classes on 4th grade the key is good teachers that had patients and a school system that has structure settings your children will succeed I was told it is not always the child with issues and I also learned that abuse happens to these children because they can't speak but there actions speak there's something wrong please don't ignore it she had a teacher for 3 months it was nothing but drama calling the behavior specialist come to learn it was the staff pinching and pulling the child's hair calling names after she was caught and fired and new teacher took over it ended she had had a great report daily and her school work has taken off so please your child is special and not a punching bag how I found out after asking why every day there was a problem one day she wouldn't get off the bus at school and Students said she afraid of the teacher and staff they hit her punch her and pull her hair well bus driver took it in her hands to step in and called me cause they knew somethings had to be done it was child study team stepped in and she was out the same day once the children talked just sharing my experience and think it's important parents and care givers are aware same with aba I have faith in her teacher now. God bless each of you and your special children I pray you get the help you need safely.