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The accountability era has arrived for autism care. Is the industry ready?

I still remember working as a home-based ABA therapist in college, sitting on the living room floor with a four-year-old boy ...
HealthTech

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): Helping Children with Autism Thrive

Children with autism often experience the world differently, facing unique challenges but also possessing incredible strengths. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a powerful, science-based approach ...
WFAE 90.7

NC legislators, alarmed over increasing cost of autism therapy, search for ways to control it

A type of autism therapy called applied behavioral analysis is under scrutiny by North Carolina legislators and the state ...
South Bend Tribune

LOGAN: New state Medicaid limits on ABA autism therapy could halt individuals' treatment

The state of Indiana is proposing limits on Medicaid spending that would restrict the use of Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for people with autism. It’s an attempt to rein in escalating Medicaid ...
WWNO

As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it

After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about ...
MM&M

It’s the ‘gold standard’ in autism care. Why are states reining it in?

Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend. Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond curls, the 3-year-old sat in her mother’s lap carefully enunciating a classmate’s first name after hearing the ...