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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would choose DCPS where the teachers have masters degrees and not an ABA center where we got kids barely out of undergrad lightly 'supervised' by BCBAs who had entirely too many cases to know my kid. [/quote]

For a THREE YEAR OLD? You’d be hard pressed to find a clinic that would even take a 3 year old, this is a home based age. Please name the clinic, I need to investigate. [/quote]
Yikes, calm down, I missed the age. But my answer is the same. I'd definitely choose DCPS with experienced special ed teachers over a coming in to my home to try and 'help' my kid.[/quote]

+1. a full time ABA program with no actual teachers for a kid approaching 4 is very “suss” as the kids say. [/quote]

Here you can find the educational and experience requirements of the person creating ABA programs. These are not “22 year old kids with 6 weeks of training” as your suss opinion suggests.

https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BCBAHandbook_250304-3.pdf

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Go back and read. The BCBA was never the one working with my kid. They oversaw the 22 year old working with my kid. Never, ever was the BCBA with my child more than 1x in a year. Utter, utter waste of time and energy. [/quote]

That was on you for agreeing to it.  We had a bcba working directly with our child.  [/quote]

Ok good to know I'm stupid and no other parent has ever made a mistake. We were told this was the only option and the gold standard and we were silly to think anything else was acceptable -- MUCH LIKE most of you are telling OP on this thread. [/quote]

+1 I don't understand PP's rudeness. The standard model that insurance pays for is an RBT supervised by a BCBA. People are referred to these programs by professionals. Nobody should be shamed for following the advice of trained professionals. The advice should change if this model doesn't work well. And private equity needs to get out of ABA. It really goes to show how greedy someone can be to take advantage of autistic kids to enrich themselves.[/quote]

I hate it so much. I am a bit believer in behavioral therapies. but they ruined ABA. I feel lucky that my kid did not need a more intensive level of services. I recall when I did need more services for behavioral issues I found one practice in the region that was owned by an individual … so look around. You can tell by the websites if they are PE owned. [/quote]

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