Diving in!

So we have waited all this time to dive into ABA and we are doing it!

I have decided to take the ABA plunge for the summer.

Not sure how we will pay for it but we will figure it out.

It is ridiculously expensive! So much so we will be doing 20 hours a week versus the reccommended 40.

I decided that this was the summer for the intensity of ABA therapy for him. I am sad he won't have the type of fun summer he usually has that while therapy oriented, is still fun and with lots of kids. I figure the good this does should roll over to many many fun summers to come.

And it better be!
with an estimated cost of about 10k , it better be or my husband will kill me!

And here I thought the 184.00 per week we spent for speech therapy was bad. Yikes!

Perhaps I can look into a 2nd job for the summer too to help out.

We have to wait until May to go in for an evaluation. That way, they get the latest info on him. He will start the 2nd week in June and go right up to when school starts again.

In addition, I got some information from the mom of a former student from his old school. His old classmate is now almost recovered! wow! I am looking into the protocol they are using for chelation but it is all natural. It is a seven steps program. By just looking at it quickly , it looks like we have been doing the top 5 steps already with our DAN. I am wondering it to add these 2 steps as well but fearful of the combination of the other stuff he is already taking. I have to read some more on it. More in a new post later. She also reccommended this ABA place who she swears by and that is who we will be using.

My question is, how do parents do it? how can parents get ABA services for their kids to happen? I think I want to set a goal that if I can recover my son, I will start my own foundation to help kids and will try to make it with the least amount of red tape possible.

We never did ABA exclusively because the school he went to for pre-school was all intergrated with st, ot, aba/vb and rdi. So he was getting a little bit of the techniques but not all the time.

This is very scary to us. Here's hoping it works!