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Costs, Insurance, Treatment, ABA

Posted on October 12, 2008

The cost of treatments and therapies for autism and how to pay for them. The question of what is the best/right/appropriate treatment for autistic children and is an educational/behavioral method like Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) really a treatment that should be covered by insurance companies, or is is something that school districts (under IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) should be providing? Who pays, or who can pay, or who should pay, for what -and what about speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy? And while ABA is widely used as a met...

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applied behavior analysis , autism , autistic , children