Thank you for visiting our On-Time Autism Intervention (OTAI) website! We are here to provide guidance and helpful tools for you as you go on this journey with your young child. To support you, we’ve laid out the information on a pathway in a few steps:

1. Screening and Diagnostic Assessment: Autism diagnosis is a process of looking at your child’s behavior and development to see if it meets the medical criteria for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
2. Part C Early Intervention Services (Birth-to-3): As parents and caregivers of autistic children, it’s important to know that the federal government mandates access to birth-to-3 services for children with developmental delays, including autism.
3. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): ABA is highly individualized and can include a combination of goals that span different skill domains, professionals, and care settings depending on each child and the goals parents and caregivers have for them.
4. Choosing ABA Services: ABA therapy focuses on building skills and helping autistic children reach their full potential.
5. Comprehensive Services: As you go on this journey, your child and family would benefit from comprehensive and integrated support outside of ABA therapy. This most often includes speech and occupational therapy.

We recognize that this process isn’t always done in this order, and you may be starting at any of these points. We invite you to navigate to any of these pages that provide helpful information to you, no matter where you are in the process.