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The diagnosis comes, and the inbox fills up. Therapy acronyms. Insurance forms. Well-meaning relatives forwarding articles. Somewhere in the noise, three letters keep appearing: ABA. Your pediatrician mentions it. Your insurance company asks about it. The waitlist conversations are all built around it.
What nobody quite explains, in the first dizzy weeks after a diagnosis, is what ABA actually is — what it does, what it doesn't do, and how to tell a quality program from a low-quality one.
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The diagnosis comes, and the inbox fills up. Therapy acronyms. Insurance forms. Well-meaning relatives forwarding articles. Somewhere in the noise, three letters keep appearing: ABA. Your pediatrician mentions it. Your insurance company asks about it. The waitlist conversations are all built around it.
What nobody quite explains, in the first dizzy weeks after a diagnosis, is what ABA actually is — what it does, what it doesn't do, and how to tell a quality program from a low-quality one.