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There is a lot of money from Silicon Valley rushing into ABA treatment and having seen the results I can't help but think we do better.

Current systems of ABA rely on billing the therapy to insurance and thus most of these ABA "mills" just throw inexperienced college kids who haven't graduated yet at the problem on a session by session basis paid at minimum wage.

These college-aged therapists have no interaction with each other since they go directly to the session at the client's house, leave and go home to take notes. Sometimes they switch patients quite regularly so there is never a chance for a comprehensive plan to emerge.

The insurance only pays for treating the patient and thus no space is available for training the parents. If we want to do better, we have to start with the parents and develop therapies that last the whole week not just 2 hours a week.

Theres a lot of potential for improving the system, but the current ABA system that SV is taking over focuses on extremely short sighted "box checking" and does nothing to develop a long term approach for the family.