Home-based or Center-based ABA? Need some opinions!

[lily76]

Originally Posted by ADVentive

That sounds so much like my daughter! She is also globally delayed, but doesn't have a real diagnosis yet to explain it. She met milestones on time until about 9 months, and then stopped doing new things for a long time. She is moving forward, but just slower than her peers. In everything - speech, motor, cognitive, social. She does not have an autism diagnosis at this time, but they do say that she has some attributes consistent with autism. We always wonder if she will "catch up" in time or not. We have never been offered ABA though.

I don't know how old your daughter is. If I were you I will contact with early intervention team if she is less than 3. I do know some babies get the service as early as 14 months.

How is her eye contact with people other than you?

How does she respond to name being called?

Does she point things and show that to you?

These are some questions for early diagnosis. However, even if your child has no problem with these areas that does not mean she is not autistic. My son is not too bad in these areas but he was defined as 'severely autism' by local school district evaluation team.

You can search M CHATR for children less than 30 months.

A diagnosis can help you get the service you want,however, it depends on you.

If you can not get one from a PED, you can try a neurologist.

That is all I know about the US side.

Hope this helps.

[ADVentive]

My daughter just turned 5. She has been getting services since she was 12 months old, first through early intervention until she was 3, and then through the school system with an IEP since then. She gets special education, speech therapy, and physical therapy with free developmental day preschool. So she gets lots of services, even without a diagnosis.

She is going to start kindergarten in a few months, and I'm not sure what her services will look like in that setting, but she has the IEP in place. We have a transition meeting scheduled in June where we will find out, and then she starts school in July (year-round school).

Besides the team at school, she also sees a developmental pediatrician every 6 months who refers us for various evaluations as it comes up. We are going for an OT eval this week, for example, because doc thinks she needs OT even though the school thinks she doesn't. She did give us a diagnosis of ADHD-other type last month, though I don't really think that is the root of the problem or anything. Other than that, they just say that she is "at risk for" intellectual disability and/or autism, because she doesn't meet the full diagnostic requirements for either, but does have features of both.

[lily76]

Originally Posted by ADVentive

My daughter just turned 5. She has been getting services since she was 12 months old, first through early intervention until she was 3, and then through the school system with an IEP since then. She gets special education, speech therapy, and physical therapy with free developmental day preschool. So she gets lots of services, even without a diagnosis.

She is going to start kindergarten in a few months, and I'm not sure what her services will look like in that setting, but she has the IEP in place. We have a transition meeting scheduled in June where we will find out, and then she starts school in July (year-round school).

Besides the team at school, she also sees a developmental pediatrician every 6 months who refers us for various evaluations as it comes up. We are going for an OT eval this week, for example, because doc thinks she needs OT even though the school thinks she doesn't. She did give us a diagnosis of ADHD-other type last month, though I don't really think that is the root of the problem or anything. Other than that, they just say that she is "at risk for" intellectual disability and/or autism, because she doesn't meet the full diagnostic requirements for either, but does have features of both.

I would try to have a diagnosis if I were you to get some ABA service. ABA is proved helpful in increasing IQ and development.

Hope both of our children can finally catch up.