Nonprofit health care network Catalight has tapped tech company Nabla to cut down on paperwork in the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) field using AI. Catalight, a Walnut Creek, California-based company, announced this week a partnership with Nabla, in order to use the company’s AI ambient assistant. Under the agreement, Catalight’s clinical staff, which include […]

Kelly (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB), a workforce solutions provider, acquired childhood therapeutics company Children’s Therapy Center (CTC). The acquisition expands Kelly’s clinical services in what the company called a “high-margin, high-demand” sector. “The demand for services has been going on for years, actually, and certainly well before the pandemic, when you think about the increase of […]

Leonard Jeger, CEO and co-founder of BrightBridge ABA, knows well the hard road that parents of children with special needs walk every day. Fifteen years ago, his firstborn son contracted bacterial meningitis the day after he was born, leaving him “extreme special needs, both medically as well as mentally.” He died at age 2.5. While […]

UNIFI Autism Care reshuffled two C-Suite roles while its CEO seeks new employment. The applied behavior analysis (ABA) provider has named its chief clinical officer, Breanne Hartley, its president. It also appointed Dr. Steven Merahn, a former strategic advisor to the company, its chief medical officer. The company has not yet announced a new CEO. […]

Stride Autism Centers named Emily Patrizi its chief operating officer. The Trumpet Behavioral Health vet plans to focus on precision and operational rigor to continue to evolve Stride’s mission, Patrizi told Autism Therapy Business. She is tasked with overseeing center operations, human resources, technology and data and supporting clinical initiatives. Chicago-based Stride Autism Centers provides […]

Who says you can’t go home? Kristin Hanson did, and now she and her brother, Eric Plunckett, are fostering the growth of their family-owned autism therapy company, Axis Therapy Centers. Hanson moved away from her and Eric’s hometown of Maxwell, Iowa — a tiny town northeast of Des Moines — for education, work and family […]

Autism therapy provider Helping Hands Family has acquired fellow services provider Mission Autism Clinics. King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based Helping Hands Family’s takeover of Mission Autism Clinics adds 13 centers to its existing presence in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Helping Hands Family also operates centers in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. “Merging with Mission Autism Clinics […]

Last month, Massachusetts became the first state to require applied behavioral analysis (ABA) providers to become accredited. The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services adopted the new rule in October after the Massachusetts attorney general and inspector general questioned the level of quality control at ABA clinics in the past year. Providers who […]

The autism therapy industry is dominated by applied behavior analysis (ABA), so much so that it is largely the first and only option of insurance-covered services geared toward the condition. In no small part, ABA’s centrality and dominance have been enabled by private equity’s interest in the industry and the relatively new 50-for-50 state autism […]

The number of U.S. patients diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has skyrocketed in the past decade across age, gender, and race and ethnic categories. A new study published last week by researchers at Kaiser Permanente, which examined 12.3 million patient electronic health records, shows the number of autism diagnoses increased 175% between 2011 and […]