The American Academy of Pediatrics (Meyer, Johnson, and the Council on Children with Disabilities, 2007) recommends intervention as early as possible. 
Dr. Barnes specializes in early intervention with infants and toddlers. Each child will receive up to 30 hours a week of play-based ABA therapy designed to develop social language and increase cognitive development.

Hope 4 Autism is a BACB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) provider.  

Our most popular professional development trainings for schools include:

* Conducting FBAs and Creating Function-Based Treatment Plans

* Behavior Boot Camp

Parent training seminars include:

*Managing Challenging Behaviors

*Potty Boot Camp

*Individual parent guidance using behavior skills training model

Hope 4 Autism is offering a summer program for school-age children with an autism spectrum disorder. 

The program is designed to provide intensive one-on-one applied behavior analysis to school age children whose behavior is too challenging for other summer programs such as camp, Boys and Girls club, or summer day care programs that only provide a small group program, at best. Each therapist is supervised directly by

Dr. Sheila K. Barnes, BCBA-D.