When School Isn’t Working

Your child may need a different balance of school, therapy, and support.

Precision ABA provides individualized ABA therapy for autistic children whose current school situation isn’t adequately addressing the skills and needs affecting their ability to learn, participate, communicate, regulate, and become more independent.

Let's See If Precision Is A Good Fit

Does this sound familiar?

School can stop working for a lot of different reasons.

Your child can do the schoolwork, but getting through the school day is another story.

The academics may not be the problem. You may keep hearing, "They're doing fine." Organization, anxiety, friendships, flexibility, emotional regulation, or increasing expectations can make school much harder than their grades suggest.

Behavior keeps getting in the way of school.

You're getting calls about refusing, yelling out, arguing, peer conflicts, leaving activities, or needing to be picked up early. Your child is going to school, but participating successfully throughout the day is becoming harder.

The things your child most needs to learn right now may not be academic.

Communication, attention, regulation, behavior, adaptive skills, or independence may be affecting your child's progress across nearly everything else they do. You may be wondering whether those skills need more focused time and attention.

ABA Therapy for Children Ages 5+

As children move through elementary school and beyond, the challenges they face can become more complex.

Precision ABA supports autistic children with:

Executive Functioning

Emotional Regulation

Friendships

Communication

Flexibility

Self-Advocacy

Independence

What Does Your Child Need Most Right Now?

As your child’s needs change, how they spend their time may need to change too.

When school isn't working well enough, it can help to look beyond the question of where your child should spend their day and think about what they most need the opportunity to learn.

Maybe academics aren't the biggest concern.

Your child may be keeping up with schoolwork while struggling much more with emotional regulation, executive functioning, friendships, flexibility, communication, or independence.

Maybe other needs are making it harder to benefit from school.

Communication, attention, behavior, regulation, adaptive skills, or independence may need more focused teaching before your child can participate more successfully and make progress in other areas.

Your child only has so many hours in their day.

The question is where that time can make the greatest difference.

Sometimes that means school with ABA outside of it. Sometimes it means dividing the day between school and ABA. And sometimes it means giving more time to intensive intervention for a period of time.

You don’t have to know what that balance should look like before you contact us.

What About Academics?

When appropriate, tutoring and individualized academic support can also be added through our sister organization, Educational Momentum.

What could we work on?

What we work on depends on what your child most needs to learn. That may include:

Executive functioning

Getting started, organizing materials and ideas, managing time, remembering what needs to happen, staying on track, and completing multi-step tasks.

Communication & self-advocacy

Explaining what happened, asking for help, communicating needs, working through misunderstandings, and advocating for themselves.

Attention, participation & learning

Engaging with instruction, following routines, persisting when work is difficult, learning new skills efficiently, and participating more independently.

Adaptive skills & independence

Building the everyday skills your child needs to do more for themselves and rely less on adults to manage each step.

Emotional regulation & flexibility

Managing frustration, handling changes in plans, tolerating unexpected outcomes, recovering when things go wrong, and finding another solution.

Social relationships

Explaining what happened, asking for help, communicating needs, working through misunderstandings, and advocating for themselves.

Behavior

Understanding and addressing behavior that is interfering with learning, relationships, routines, or successful participation.

What Could Change With More Focused Time?

At school, your child is learning within a classroom, alongside many other priorities and demands. Therapy with us gives them dedicated time to work intensively on the skills that may be having the greatest impact across their day.

More time to teach, not just respond.

Instead of only helping your child through a difficult moment, we can break down the skills they need, teach them directly, and practice them repeatedly before the next difficult moment happens.

More opportunities to practice.

Friendship skills, flexibility, communication, emotional regulation, problem-solving, and independence get stronger through practice. We can intentionally create opportunities to use those skills again and again, across different people and situations.

More individualized teaching.

We can slow something down, break it into smaller pieces, provide more support, or increase the challenge based on exactly what your child needs to learn.

Enough information to know whether it’s working.

Using ABA and Precision Teaching, we measure learning each minute of each and every session. If your child isn’t making progress, we change how we’re teaching rather than continuing to spend their time on something that isn’t working.

The goal isn’t simply more therapy. It’s giving your child focused opportunities to build skills that can make school, home, relationships, and everyday life work better.

Built For What Comes Next

Precision works with elementary and middle-school-aged learners throughout the day. Your child won’t be entering a program designed primarily for preschoolers. They’ll have opportunities to learn and practice alongside peers closer to their own age.