Free ABA in other states

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Hi,

My question is whether other parents in states like Massachusetts or

NY get free ABA therapy - free as in state-sponsored in some way or

that insurance takes care of it. I heard about a law passing for NY

insurers covering autisim treatments but I wasn't sure ABA was

covered.

My son was diagnosed with PDD-autism in August. We have gotten the

training for home DTT and now we are about to get the weekly hour of

supervision from the therapist, until he turns three in January.

The psychologist who diagnosed him told us that Florida will only

allow for us to be trained and for no direct services in ABA. The

Early Intervention program we worked with here in Florida doesn't seem

to provide any direct ABA therapy, which I feel will work best for him

(he is three months shy of 3 now).

The therapists tell us that it is better for us, the parents, to be

trained to reinforce everything he learns at home. I now feel like I

can reinforce at home but I get an awful sense that we could be doing

more for him with actual trained professionals. I applaud all those

other parents who made the sacrifice to stay at home for treatments.

Even the 10-hour/week treatments we have seem to be good, but we

haven't been getting enough of a push to change out the skills he has

mastered for newer skills to learn. Waiting a whole week for the

therapist while he gets bored doing things he has already master weeks

ago makes me and his dad frustrated.

I'm not sure if this was the right outlet for me to ask and say all

these things in a long e-mail. This is the first time that I am

reaching out to other parents. I thought I could try.