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Posted on September 16, 2008

Last week, a bill calling for insurance coverage of autism did not pass the Illinois General Assembly, as reported in the September 12th Daily Journal. An article in today s Boston Globe looks at recent and ongoing efforts in many US states to get insurance companies to cover treatment for autism, often in the form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Currently, many families seek ABA and other educational therapies and services from school districts. Noting that some school districts are currently spending more than 20 percent of their budgets exclusively on special ed students, Paul Andrew...

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applied behavior analysis , autism