Fast-growing ABA Centers of America blitzes New Jersey Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based ABA Centers of America announced the opening of its newest center, in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. The company plans to open seven more centers in New Jersey throughout 2025, according to local media reports.  “We see a lot of people in our county that […]

Caring for those with autism often fails to account for the totality of the person, let alone their health. But an increasing number of behavioral health organizations are recognizing the clinical need — and the business opportunity — for whole-person care models in various settings. Indeed, leading clinicians and executives in the field maintain that […]

Verbal Beginnings expands its in-person services into a new state Columbia, Maryland-based autism therapy provider Verbal Beginnings is expanding its center-based early intervention business into Virginia. The company currently operates six locations in Maryland, the only state where it does so. It offers in-home services in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The new […]

Children born during the pandemic are not more likely to show signs of autism, according to a study released last month in JAMA. Additionally, the study found that “opposite to our hypothesis” the children of mothers infected with COVID were less likely to show traits of autism. Study authors Morgan Firestein, Angela Manessis and Jennifer […]

Biotech firm MARAbio has raised $19 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the launch of its blood test for detecting maternal autoantibody-related (MAR) autism. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based biotech company plans to use the funds to bring its proprietary blood testing technology to market. MAR autism is linked to specific patterns […]

Doreen Granpeesheh has spent the last year pruning out and grafting in strategies and plans at the Center for Autism & Related Disorders (CARD).  One thing for certain won’t be grafted back in: private equity. Granpeesheh and her business partner acquired the company she founded in 1990 through a bankruptcy proceeding in August 2023. During […]

After eight years working in the Indiana public schools as a speech-language pathologist (SLP), Ashley Whitaker decided to focus on helping children diagnosed with autism. “Speech is one the first symptoms people recognize in individuals with autism,” Whitaker told Autism Business News. She found a mentor in Janine Shapiro, a speech-language pathologist who had gone […]

About a year ago, Ramon Falero jumped into the fray of a company in the middle of a transformation. That transformation hopes to turn the page for the company and help it join other autism therapy providers seeking to write the next chapter of the industry. Miramar, Florida-based MySpot is seeking to consolidate its legacy […]

An autism care provider that touts a multifaceted treatment approach has expanded into North Carolina. Cortica Inc. announced last week that it has opened a center in Cary, North Carolina, a city just west of Raleigh and south of Durham. In addition to setting up shop in the Raleigh-Durham area, Cortica plans to open an […]

The federal government announced in 2014 that Medicaid programs nationwide were required to cover medically necessary diagnostic and treatment services for children with autism.  This requirement led to millions of people having access to insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis (ABA) and other autism therapy modalities. Massachusetts’ Medicaid program, MassHealth, has now gone a step […]