ABA Therapy and Autism in Girls: What Parents and Families Need to Know
At a Glance Why girls are often diagnosed later: Autism is diagnosed 3x more often in boys than girls — not because it’s less common in girls, but because the diagnostic tools and clinical frameworks were built on male presentations. Girls often mask their autistic traits in ways that delay recognition for years. What masking […]
What Is ABA Therapy? A Plain-Language Guide for Parents
You’ve just come home from the pediatrician’s office — or the developmental specialist’s — with a diagnosis in hand and a name for what you’ve been observing in your child for months. Someone, somewhere along the way, mentioned three letters: ABA. Maybe a doctor said it. Maybe you found it in a pamphlet. Maybe you’ve […]