Has anyone had multiple children needing therapy at the same time and done in-home ABA? How did you make it work?
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Hi everyone! I’m pretty new to the autism diagnosis world. I have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old who were recently diagnosed. My 4-year-old is somewhat verbal, while my 2-year-old is nonverbal.
Their pediatrician recommended ABA for both. My 4-year-old also needs speech and feeding therapy, and my 2-year-old needs speech therapy.
I’m nervous about sending them to an actual ABA center because they’re both still very young, neither is potty trained, and they aren’t fully able to communicate with me about what happens during the day. The ABA center I toured also had older children there, which made me a little uncomfortable.
I’m considering doing in-home ABA for both of them, but I’m trying to figure out how that would actually work. I’m assuming they would each be working on different goals and at different levels, so how do you keep them from distracting or bothering each other during their sessions? Would they need to be in separate rooms?
If anyone has multiple children receiving ABA or other therapies at home at the same time, I’d really appreciate hearing how you made it work. I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed trying to figure all of this out, and honestly it’s been keeping me up at night.