The latest data shows a roughly 17% increase in the autism rate among children in 2022 compared to 2020.  Data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), finds that the national rate is now 32.2 per 1,000 among eight-year-old children, or 1 […]

When Kim Hoehne, owner and CEO of KGH Autism Services, was five years old, she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I’d tell people I want to wear Mickey Mouse t-shirts and help kids,” Hoehne told Autism Business News. “I had no idea what that meant, but that is what it […]

Autism therapy organizations often evolve from discrete passion projects into business enterprises almost by accident, driven by motivated founders seeking to fulfill some personal mission. Without adequate succession planning, the handoff could be chaotic when the founder is ready to end that chapter of their life. Clear-eyed and specific planning in the early stages of […]

Demand for autism therapy and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) continues to rise. Multidisciplinary models of care are especially becoming more prevalent. Those are just a couple of takeaways highlighted in a new market-insights report from CentralReach. The report pulls from CentralReach’s CanaryBI dataset, which encompasses billions of anonymized clinical and […]

Autism Support Now has used a dogged approach to culture and advocacy to rapidly expand into one of the largest Medicaid-focused autism therapy providers in Missouri. Headquartered in Independence, Missouri, the autism therapy operates nine clinics — eight in Missouri and another in Olathe, Kansas. It was initially founded in 2016 as an in-home applied […]

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) has removed the inclusion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content from its certification and continuing education coursework requirements, angering several clinicians in the space. The BACB has become the leading organization allocating certifications for clinicians practicing applied behavior analysis (ABA), the core therapy offered in the autism therapy […]

Since 2011, ABS Kids has grown from a 400-person operation to a workforce of nearly 5,000. It has done so across a footprint of more than 40 applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy locations, while adding nearly a dozen diagnostic clinics in five states. In just the last two years, ABS Kids has also grown its […]

Earlier in March, rumors swirled that applied behavior analysis (ABA) software company CentralReach was on the market and seeking a $1 billion valuation. Those rumors have quickly turned into reality. Roper Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ROP) announced Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy CentralReach from Insight Partners for a net purchase price […]

The Autism Impact Fund has invested in Unison Therapy Services, a multi-specialty youth and family behavioral health provider. The amount of the funding was not disclosed. The Autism Impact Fund’s participation as a strategic investor in Unison Therapy Services follows the announcement that Ascend Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Unison. “This investment […]

CEO transition at Ivy Rehab Ivy Rehab has named Jason Strauss its new CEO after the acting CEO, Michael Rucker, announced his plans to retire at the end of April.  Strauss has 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Most recently, he served as CEO of ambulatory care provider SCA Health. His resume […]