Living in the DC region means the state line is never far away. A parent takes a job in Fairfax. A family moves from Columbia to Arlington. An employer switc...
The first week of kindergarten changes a lot of things at once. The bus comes at 7:40. Your child is gone for six hours. And the ABA schedule you spent month...
Picture a family in Baltimore with a five-year-old in ABA. Life is settled. Then one parent takes a job in Northern Virginia, and the family starts planning ...
Monday at ten past four, a car door shuts in the driveway and a six year old who has been watching from the window announces the name of his RBT before the d...
A family in Pikesville gets the call in late spring: the evaluation is finished, the diagnosis is confirmed, and now there is a name for what they have been ...
Dinner used to be the hardest twenty minutes of the day for one family in Frederick County, not because of food refusal but because of silence. Their four-ye...
A Pikesville family had a diagnosis in hand in early March and a first session in late June. Nothing went wrong. The evaluation report took three weeks to be...
Most parents arrive at this question sideways. Something has been sitting at the back of their mind for months, and then a grandparent says something, or a p...
One of the first things families learn after their child's ABA assessment is that therapy involves multiple types of goals, operating across different timefr...
For many Maryland families, the logistics of the daily or weekly drop-off at an ABA clinic turn out to be different from what they imagined. Some children tr...
Starting ABA therapy at a young age can feel like a big step, especially when your child is still a toddler. Parents sometimes wonder whether a two or three-...
Communication delays are among the most common challenges for children with autism, and they are frequently a central focus of ABA therapy programs. For Mary...
Most families enter ABA therapy expecting it to happen at a clinic, in a controlled setting, separate from the rhythms of everyday life. That assumption fade...
Most families arrive at the ABA intake process with a mix of urgency and exhaustion. They've usually spent months getting a diagnosis, and the idea that ther...
Most families reach out to an ABA provider before they have everything organized, and that is completely normal. Providers expect it. But knowing what inform...
Raising a child with autism in Maryland means sorting through a range of services, school supports, insurance requirements, and provider options — often all ...
Choosing an ABA therapy provider involves a lot of considerations: the qualifications of the clinical team, the approach to parent involvement, the ability t...
If your child has recently been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or if your pediatrician has recommended an evaluation, you are probably doing a lot ...
When you're researching ABA therapy for your child, it's tempting to focus almost entirely on the clinical side of things — credentials, program philosophy, ...
You're the constant Therapists rotate. Insurance reps change. School staff comes and goes. The one constant in your child's care is you, and that makes ...