ABA Therapy

In Florida, ABA is available center-based in West Palm Beach for children ages 2 through 6, with community options depending on the service and current availability. In North Carolina, ABA is delivered in family homes, in partnering schools, in daycare and early-learning programs, and in appropriate community settings. The right setting is a clinical decision made with the family, not a default.

Our Florida center-based ABA program serves children ages 2 through 6. Ages served for other services and settings vary by clinician, program, and funding source, so please contact the intake team to confirm whether we can serve your child rather than relying on a general age range.

ABA is frequently a covered benefit, but coverage depends on your specific plan, your state, the diagnosis on record, and the authorization your plan requires. We verify benefits with you during onboarding and explain in plain language what your plan indicates before services begin. We do not promise coverage on a website — we confirm it with your plan.

It depends on the service and how it is funded. Insurance-funded ABA typically requires a qualifying diagnosis from an appropriate evaluating provider, because the funder requires it. Private-pay occupational therapy and private-pay mental health counseling have different requirements. If your child has not been evaluated yet, tell us — we can talk through what a reasonable next step looks like.

An assessment is how a clinician learns who your child actually is before anyone writes a plan. Depending on the service, it can include a caregiver interview, direct observation, standardized or criterion-referenced measures, a review of prior records, and discussion of the routines and settings where you want to see change. The result is a care plan with goals your family recognizes as relevant, along with how progress will be measured and reviewed.

Often, yes. School-based and daycare-based ABA requires written caregiver consent and the agreement of the school or program, and we coordinate scope, scheduling, and communication before any session takes place. The goal is to complement what the school team is already doing rather than run a parallel, competing plan.

Caregivers are part of the clinical team, not an audience for it. That means participating in goal setting, receiving coaching on strategies that carry over into everyday routines, getting plain-language updates on progress, and being able to raise concerns and have them addressed. Skills that only work when a clinician is in the room have not really been taught yet.