Offers Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy coaching for parents of children with autism throughout northeast Pennsylvania. ABA is a type of therapy that helps improve communication and social interactions, develop new skills, and support positive behavior. Families can receive a free, one-on-one consultation with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst that includes six one-hour long sessions: (1) Introduction to ABA; (2) Learn what autism is and how it relates to ABA; (3) Verbal behaviors and communication strategies; (4) The basics of ABCs and the functions of behavior; (5) ABA techniques for common behaviors; and (6) A personalized plan of available services. All coaching sessions are done through a secure online platform using videoconferencing. The program is provided at no cost to families thanks to funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Provides wraparound services for any child or adolescent with a medical diagnosis. Trained staff provide support to children diagnosed with the following: autism , behavioral health issues , developmental delays, mental illness , intellectual disabilities, and physical disabilities.

Specializes in assessing and treating children and adolescents. Provides initial screenings, assessment, and evaluations. A specialty medication clinic provides comprehensive medication evaluation. Comprehensive outpatient treatment services are provided. Treatment may include family, group, and individual therapy. Social skills training groups are available for children and adolescents.

Provides individual and group therapy that specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorder and related issues.

Provides a range of services to children with Autism and to children who are having behavioral difficulties in Delaware County and parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, including: A) Behavior Specialist Consultants B) Case Management C) Mobile Therapists D) Psychological Evaluations

Provides support that enables adults with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible in their own apartments and homes in the community. Individuals are supported in choosing their residences, with some adults purchasing their own homes. Services vary according to the individual need and are reduced as needs diminish. Includes assistance in money management, shopping and menu planning, home management, and accessing common community agencies.

Provides an environment in which to teach and strengthen positive social skills development. Facilities include a sensory room, gross motor room and model apartment. Students with autism thrive when education is creatively tailored to individual learning styles and the environment is responsive to sensory differences.

Provides home health and hospice, medical solutions, pediatrics, and personal care.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Provides short-term, intensive behavioral health plans customized to the client's needs. Sessions can take place in the home, school, or community.

Provides specialists to partner with adults to identify strengths, personal resources, and goal for overall well-being.

Provides academic instruction to students within the autism spectrum in kindergarten through age 21. Groups students according to academic achievement, language ability, learning capacity, and relational development; and regroups students according to their strengths and weaknesses in each subject. Conducts classes in small groups of four or less, in close proximity to each other to foster opportunities to develop familiarity and comfort. Services include speech and occupational therapies.

The Center's Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) program is a center-based program for children ages 2 to 6. The program offers full-day state-of-the-art intensive and comprehensive treatment based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis. The staff to child ratio is one-to-one. Children who are candidates for Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, Rhett's Disorder and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.

Provides adult day programs and training, supportive employment services, children’s services-three approved private schools, medical rehabilitation, camp and respite programs, and residential and veterans’ services. The essential tools and resources provided enable individuals with disabilities to live their best life.

Behavioral health services available for youth, up to age 21 years, includes BSC (Behavioral Specialist Consultant), MT (Mobile Therapy), and TSS (Therapeutic Staff Support). Contracts with county mental health systems, Managed Care Organizations (MCOâs), and private insurers to provide both fee for service and case rate Medicaid services. Open to referrals from families, schools and agencies.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Helps children with autism achieve the next level of independence based on their unique needs and strengths.

Provides treatment programs designed to reduce the symptoms of autism. Treatment focuses on clients' communication, interaction, change and transitions, behaviors and responses, social competencies, and sensory processing.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Home and Community-Based Autism services are provided to children ranging in age from early childhood to twenty-one, using a tiered approach. For pre-school children, Friendship House offers an intensive behavioral intervention home-based program that focuses on increasing basic learning and language skills. For school-aged children, interventions may include Direct Service Professional support in school, to help the individual learn appropriate adaptive behaviors and decrease behavioral symptoms that may impede learning. In addition, home programming may also be a component of a childâs treatment plan. Home programming for school-aged children typically involves increasing daily living, and socialization while also decreasing maladaptive behaviors. Other individuals on the Spectrum may benefit from interventions that are based in the community in which they live to encourage and utilize services/resources available to all of members of our society.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Offers parent peer support, referral, and screening to assist with access to diagnosis for children and adults as well as services in all areas of treatment and daily living. Offers neurodevelopmental/Psychological testing from adults, evaluating for autism, ADHD, and other neurodiversities.

Therapy is provided in home and community to strengthen relationships and problem-solving skills.

Offering monthly meetings designed to build connections and support families with autism, as well as in-home supports to assist adults with autism to live in their own homes by providing additional supports, as outlined in the Adult Autism Waiver.