A new autism diagnosis can come with a lot of information all at once. You may leave an evaluation with a recommendation for ABA therapy, a list of providers, and maybe even a recommendation for 20, 30, or 40 hours of therapy each week. Suddenly, you’re being asked to make a pretty significant decision about what your 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old’s days should look like. But an autism diagnosis alone doesn’t tell us exactly what an individual child needs from therapy. And ABA for a

I've sat through hundreds of intake meetings. I've conducted them, I've supervised them, I've reviewed recordings of them. And here's what I can tell you: most of us are doing them wrong. Not catastrophically wrong. Just... incompletely wrong. We're asking the questions we're supposed to ask, filling out the forms we're supposed to fill out, and somehow still walking away without the information we actually need. You know what I'm talking about. You get three sessions in and