Nominal fees or no fee. We will always accept testing by other agencies. For children under 5, we require at least 30 hours per week. Children in school should receive at least 20 hours per week. . Parents may have the child in any program they wish, as long as we can provide the number of hours necessary to achieve maximum benefit.
Formal testing is done annually.
Evaluation of ongoing progress is done by senior therapists weekly, by clinic supervisors at least monthly, and by a psychologist every other month. Based on annual testing by psychologists not affiliated with our program, our outcome data is very similar to Lovaas'. This is typically decided by the parent. The child either is doing well enough to no longer need treatment, or is in a school program the parents are happy with and parents have acquired the skill to continue what treatment is needed without us. We have never dismissed a child for slow progress.