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Care built around real life

Meaningful support begins by listening.

We provide individualized Applied Behavior Analysis for children and adolescents, with goals shaped by your child’s strengths, your family’s priorities, and the moments that matter in everyday life.

Understanding ABA

What ABA can—and should—look like.

ABA uses observation, teaching, environmental supports, and reinforcement to help a person learn useful skills. It should never be a one-size-fits-all program or an effort to erase harmless differences.

At its best, ABA is collaborative and practical: helping a child communicate needs, participate more safely, navigate routines, build independence, and access more of the life they want.

Flexible settings

Support where skills are actually used.

Availability, clinical fit, coverage, and scheduling vary. We’ll explain what is realistic before asking your family to commit.

H

In-home ABA

Support for communication, routines, transitions, play, safety, self-care, and other priorities in the place daily life happens.

Home routines & independence
C

Community-based ABA

Practice skills in real settings such as parks, stores, activities, and appointments when clinically appropriate.

Safety & real-world access
S

School-based support

Collaboration with families and school teams to support participation, communication, transitions, and educational access.

Team collaboration
T

Telehealth & caregiver coaching

BCBA-guided coaching, consultation, and strategy support that fits into family life and can happen from home.

Caregiver confidence
What to expect

A clear process, from first call to ongoing care.

Conversation

We learn about your child, concerns, priorities, location, availability, and insurance. You decide whether to continue.

Benefits & records

We help gather the information needed to verify benefits and understand authorization requirements.

BCBA assessment

A BCBA learns about strengths, needs, routines, communication, and caregiver priorities before recommending goals or hours.

Plan, start, review

If authorized and mutually agreed, care begins. Progress and fit are reviewed with the family over time.

About timing Start dates depend on clinical fit, location, family schedule, payer requirements, authorization, and staffing. Contact us for current availability rather than relying on a blanket wait-time promise.
Use this with any provider

Seven questions every family deserves to ask.

A trustworthy provider should welcome these questions and give you answers you understand.

1. How will you learn what matters to our child and family?
Look for a process that includes child strengths, preferences, communication, comfort, caregiver priorities, observation, records, and collaboration with other relevant professionals.
2. How do you protect dignity, assent, and choice?
Ask how providers respond to refusal or distress, distinguish safety needs from harmless differences, teach communication, and avoid goals based only on appearing typical.
3. Who will work directly with my child, and who supervises?
Understand the qualifications of each team member, how often the BCBA observes care, how staff are trained, and who you contact with concerns.
4. How are goals chosen and changed?
Goals should be individualized, meaningful, measurable, reviewed with caregivers, and adjusted when data or family feedback shows the plan is not helping.
5. How will caregivers be involved?
Ask what coaching looks like, whether strategies can be adapted to family capacity, and how caregiver input affects goals and treatment decisions.
6. How will you coordinate with school and other providers?
With appropriate permission, coordinated care can reduce conflicting recommendations and help useful skills carry across settings.
7. How do you plan for independence and eventual discharge?
Quality care should build sustainable supports, generalize skills, review ongoing medical necessity, and discuss fading or transition criteria from the beginning.
Insurance & payment

Coverage is specific to your plan.

Kelton Company works with a range of insurance plans, which may include Medi-Cal managed care and commercial coverage. Network status, eligibility, authorization rules, and cost-sharing can change and should be verified for your specific plan.

  • We collect only the information needed to check benefits and clinical fit.
  • We explain what we know before assessment or treatment begins.
  • Your insurance company makes final benefit and authorization decisions.
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