My son has been receiving ABA therapy from compass innovative behavior strategies for almost 3…read moreyears and it is the best decision I ever made to call and speak with the owner Dan Dube about my son receiving services. I have seen other BCBA's work with my son, and absolutely NONE of them can remotely compare to the BCBA's that are part of compass. all compass staff I have met with and seen are absolutely phenomenal with these special kiddos. My son has shown nothing but progress from compass, and all schools and ABA programs should follow the compass model and all these special kids will do nothing but thrive. Compass provides therapy, parent training and parent clinics and compass has been a part of our life, but it's also been a way of life for us. My son screams when it's time to leave compass and he wants to stay there! I do not believe they do not respond to parents, compass staff and I've spoke with many, always respond to me almost immediately, and not only help you while your child is in therapy but they help you help your child outside of therapy as well. If anything else is said it's hogwash!!! This is the best place for therapy for these special kiddos.

From the owner: Compass Innovative Behavior Strategies in Concord, NH, is a clinic-based Applied Behavior Analysis…read more(ABA) provider utilizing trusted methodologies to treat autism and other developmental delays. Their private educational program creates a natural, engaged learning environment for each student to meet their growth potential with the help of on-site board-certified behavior analysts. Their team is dedicated to removing the financial, geographic, language, and transportation barriers that parents face when finding the right Autism treatment for their children. In addition to their Concord location, they have locations in Nashua and Marlborough to better serve clients. Compass' founders Dan and Ally Dube understand firsthand the struggles of finding appropriate services for children with Autism, having struggled themselves as single parents trying to raise children with developmental disabilities. In 2014, they launched Compass, which has since expanded to three locations to include 70 expert employees and is one of the largest ABA therapy providers "in-network" in the state. In addition to these amazing strides, they've opened an innovative education center at their Concord Clinic. Their highly trained staff utilizes advanced occupational ABA therapy techniques developed for structured and "everyday" situations, working to teach skills that will serve children through adulthood...

I have been using services at Active Healing for several years and have always been satisfied with…read morethe attention and personalized care I have received. There have been many examples over the years when various symptoms have been relieved with Active Healing's methods. Most recently I was diagnosed with Asthma and prescribed a steroid maintenance inhaler for difficulty breathing and a persistent cough. My lung capacity was at 64%. After I saw Sarge and he put me on the PEMF mat, whole body vibration with oxygen, and suggested breathing exercises to do at home, I no longer required the steroid inhaler and my lung capacity jumped to 82%! I love that Active Healing provides alternative/supplemental care to conventional medicine. Sarge's methods are never invasive, but always helpful! I'm so thankful to have this resource!

As a former dancer, I can no longer exercise due to chronic illness. Western medicine alone has…read morecompletely fallen short of the care I need to function. I was so excited to find Active Healing! The whole body vibration tends to the lymphatic system, while the infrared sauna provides endless health benefits. My father treated cancer patients and always recommended infrared saunas. Sarge and Dawn have stayed late for me when my schedule's unpredictable - they are so accommodating and treat their customers like family. Highly recommend!

I'd like to add an update. This is still a one star review. They gave several weeks later a…read more"findings report" after everything. They stated residential for my child. Like how does one just pop a kid into that if they don't meet criteria? It really seemed they had mixed my child up with someone else's child. This service that is based on and prides itself on documenting? Really? They sighted he tried to poison us. That never happened. What a damaging and outrageous claim. He did plenty of real stuff no need to lie or exaggerate anything. You are trying to get help for behavior issues right? They stated he was tardy and absent from school and never was. I signed releases school said they never contacted them. Barely has missed a day. I got a print out of his attendance. They stated he was ODD and demanded other diagnoses from doctors. After signing releases for them to speak w his doctors. He has other stuff lol. They can't handle anything other than just the autism. Letting me know how they have to stay in their lane. Five months later? Be aware. They are seeking four year old kids to play with. I doubt any results from them would happen. They do-not help w bathroom other than an alarm to remind the child. We did that, that's silly. No real help. I thought they were going to help us? They admitted they made zero progress in five months. There was so much wrong with the report I made a bullet point complaint wanting it corrected. They sent a letter back they were investigating it internally for all my many issues I had with it and how the case was handled as a whole. They did nothing to fix anything and the payment plan they had us on resulted in over four grand in balance to be paid after insurance didn't cover it. My insurance is now looking into it and may become a litigation situation. Again anyone reading this. If you have an older child with any pda they will not do well by your family. This was pure nightmare fuel and made everything so much worse. The fact they did zero referrals lied they spoke to his psychiatrist and many other very concerning falsehoods they are simply not a legitimate company. A young inexperienced girl came in so self assured stating "well your way isn't working how bout we try our way?" lol I was thinking to myself ya sure ok good luck with that. I tried everything. I was interested to see how they could help. They didn't at all. They never did open the center location wise. That should have offered respite on weekends. Would have been one positive. We had them in our home 20 plus hours per week five days per week for over five months. Not a "didn't really give it a chance" situation, but during that time countless managers and training of therapists on your child's time. Like how are they billing when a portion of the time is them training their new staff on your time? Kid you not four cars in our driveway with Superviser upper supervision cus supervisors aren't trained then your kids therapist plus some on looking training person while they train your person. It went on the whole time cus they had a revolving door. We got a silly bin of items of junk finally like months and months in we were supposed to get but didn't prior that they didn't come back for. Their little enrichment kit or whatever (a puzzle, legos, slime). lol like I'm at the point I can laugh but man. Ridiculous I do not have a good feeling or opinion of Aba now. Not sure it's based on normal Aba cus this was like patty cake with a nine year old and no real treatment plan admittedly till the last four to six weeks of the circus. There are tons of other Aba companies look at them and reviews I regret choosing them I really want others to not have this experience. I felt sorry for the therapists trying to work for them. Like nice people with no training or experience and don't know what they are doing or how to help you or anything about anything basically. Management throwing them in unprepared and without an actual plan to go by. They reluctantly admitted there was no case plan in place cus someone dropped the ball somewhere and I honestly think notes or documentation was all mixed about. Like paying out the nose for a mother's helper with a kid next door person hoping something therapeutic was going to happen at some point ever. Sad. We have no services in place now and waitlists for months working with 211 sucks too but that's free folks you can get Aba through them too. I would still not go back to Aba centers of America. No matter how desperate. Please be advised. I tried my best to warn you. Also take a gander at how many times I left one star reviews in my entire life. Not much. Good luck.

This is an update as there is something I didn't add when I created this review. I'm not sure…read moreexactly what's going on but let me explain. We have not had ABA centers of America for probably 2 years now.. maybe a little less. They bill the insurance company and for some reason the insurance company sends us the checks for their payment. Which I find quite odd. Anyway, it's been all this time and still we're getting checks. They are still processing what ever days they were at our house and putting forward the requests for payment. These people are so incompetent. We don't want anything to do with them any more. Not only do we get their checks but we have to send multiple e mails and call them to come get their checks!! And then they send us threatening letters that we are with holding their checks!! We can't get ahold of them. People do t reply or if they do respond they never follow through with our reply. We have asked them numerous times to finish processing payments so we can be done with them and still until this day we get random checks in the mail from the insurance company. These checks are in my husbands name so he has to sign them so they can cash them. This just seems very bizarre to me and sometimes we wonder if they are scamming. This was something they got caught and sued for by other insurance companies in other states. That info is found via the web if you want to look it up. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THESE PEOPLE!! I have nothing good to say about them and they are a thorn in our side!!

The admin staff is terrible. They keep telling me that they will get back to me at a particular day…read moreand never bother to respond. Just tell me what the reality is - do you have staff to provide services or not, dont keep me hanging. Please can you be more empathetic to special needs parents who are already struggling.

I recently brought my newly diagnosed son to CARD in Woburn. My son is 2 years, 11 months old…read more Within the first fifteen minutes of our meeting, I was told that my son would need 40 hours a week of ABA and that he should skip preschool and do ABA only. I was told he should do this for three years and then enter kindergarten a year late, at age six. There are a few incidents that I feel upset about. I was told that my son was "the worst ever" seen when it came to changing his diaper. He did cry and try to turn over but I imagine at a center for autism, that there might have been more challenging behaviors observed. Also, the BCBA who was working with my son made comments on how he was one of the worst in not following a direction and using his words. The BCBA grabbed a toy truck from my son and my son said, "Let it go." She gave it back and said that was an appropriate response and then grabbed it from him again. My son lost it and tried to pull it away from her and cried for probably 2 minutes until we asked her to redirect his attention to something else. I was told then that this was "one of the worst she seen" as far as his ability to hold out for something. Finally, the BCBA asked whom my son was close to in the family and I told her that is my father (who has been taking care of my son, while my husband and I work.) She made a comment that, "Oh, it is usually the mother." I felt these incidents show a lack of empathy and care. This experience felt like a sales pitch. I felt like I was being told how awful my son was so I would need to sign up for 40 hours (which was not recommended on his IEP or from his doctor.) I don't feel such a strong recommendation should be made within meeting my child for 15 minutes. . Fortunately, my son has started preschool and is being praised for what he can do while working on his needs. I do not doubt the need and wonderful things ABA does or that 40 hours might be the appropriate thing for my child or another, it was just the method in which this BCBA went about it. I am currently waiting for home services through another agency. There also might be more kind BCBA's at CARD but it felt like I would get the push for 40 hours no matter what my son did. Which by the way, my son is awesome, loveable, and kind and didn't deserve any of these things said about him.

If you want your Child to have PTSD after therapy, then you should use this company. Therapists…read morewere not trained and mean among other questionable things.

PLEASE READ: If I…read morecould give this place 0 stars I would. Hi, I'm a past client from the Ridge. I am 17 years old. I went to the Ridge this past summer and it was the worst experience of my life. I got there, thought it was great, thought I would finally get the support I needed, and it was the complete opposite for me, and for many of the other clients there. I went in there because of issues with my mental health and trouble finding self worth, and I left hating myself and the world around me even more than I did at first. I left a different person. We got handed nicotine vapes, we got verbally abused by STAFF, our feelings were dismissed 24/7, clients were getting PERMISSION to have sex in the woods by STAFF, and so much more. Besides all that trauma that I and MANY OTHERS went through there I have to say that the therapy at this facility LACKS professionalism as well as accountability. I was one of the older clients at the Ridge, and (at the time I was not complaining) throughout the time spent there this past summer, I facilitated almost every single therapy group while I was there. It was kind of them to let me do that in the first place, but let me tell you -- that was taken advantage of VERY quickly. As long as I was there, the therapists just got to SIT BACK and RELAX & GET PAID to watch clients do the job they are supposed to do. Apart from that, the "security" they have there is absolutely terrible. Family visits are supposed to be the best part about being at a treatment center: Seeing your siblings, parents, grandparents, guardians, etc. The joy of that experience FLEW out the window pretty fast due to people from the outside were AND ARE bringing in drugs for their children. I had marijuana while I was there as well as nicotine from the outside because the Ridge FAILED to apply bare minimum guidelines to those family visits. The most disgusting part about all of this is that I went in the Ridge with no substance abuse problems, or drinking problems. I came out of the Ridge with BOTH. I was so traumatized, I drank every single day to drown the pain and suffering I went through at this facility. It got so bad to the point where one night I was drinking while driving, and decided that I wanted to commit suicide. Because of the Ridge. I crashed, totaled my car, got arrested, and was planning on going back to the Ridge a second time. Because I heard about this beforehand, I planned to overdose on my medications before getting there because DYING was better than going back to this place. I survived barely, I had tachycardia in the hospital with intense hallucinations. Thankfully, I got to make the decision to go to the Ridge in Maine. If you are going to send you child to a treatment center, LET IT BE THE ONE IN MAINE. It is the complete opposite of this shit hole and I have become someone that I DREAMED of becoming my whole life because of that facility. I am now sober 6 months, high honor roll, and thriving. My life would not be where it is right now if it weren't for the Ridge in Maine. PLEASE and I mean PLEASE do not send your child to this one. If it is going to have to be one, please make the extra drive to send your children to the best care possible, if you TRULY want your child to get better. Please do not force your children to go to not only this facility, but any facility without talking to them first. AND LOOKING AT REVIEWS. You will start the healing journey WITH your child and you will be able to help them feel seen and heard. Do not treat them like they are some problem to be fixed. The world is a disgusting place and they deserve the life they are meant to live. Your children deserve the best treatment possible and this is absolutely not the place. If you read this far, thank you for taking the time to read and acknowledge mine ( and many others' ) terrible experience at The Ridge New Hampshire. Do not fail your child and send them here, you may lose your child like my parents almost lost me.

Best staff ever especially Lance lirette. and great place overall from my experience. They also…read morehave a gym and basketball court too. -Samuel Monfette