Applying applicants please be aware! If you are planning on working for this company, please…read morerethink your decision as a professional. Abbie is the owner. This place is unethical, unsanitary, and unprofessional. They have therapists and staff watching your every move: they take pictures and videos of you without your consent. This is violation of privacy. They will shred or lose your important paperwork (ex. Driver's License & SSN#) No one wants to work in an atmosphere where everyone is micromanaging you, unsanitary and losing important documentation to pay. They will retaliate against you. If you are looking to do real ABA, this is not the place for you. This is babysitting, maintaining & reinforcing behaviors. There are no growth opportunities because there are no real onsite Behavior Analysts to support and assist RBTs. If there Is no onsite Analyst, then data collection and session notes are inaccurate. They have OUT OF STATE behavior analysts watching through a video camera in the ceiling. RBTs will not receive the support they need for growth. Parents if you are looking for effective ABA that shows effective progress and not just a daycare for your special needs child, please seek services elsewhere.

North Florida Education Services is a phenomenal place to work, Abbie is quite literally the best…read moreboss and human being that I have ever met and I feel honored to know and work for her. The love she has for all of the children here is unlike anyone else still in this world. Each and every person that works here does their job for a reason. They want to help kids progress and reach their full potential. Now every company hires a few bad apples at times but, they get plucked and tossed out very quickly. We have cameras everywhere, in each treatment room, each office etc.. As a professional and a mother, they are a must. I mean your adults working with children, if she did not have cameras with audio everywhere it would have been the very first thing to turn me away. The world is not rainbows and puppy dogs anymore. You have to protect these children and your employees, that's just smart business. Abbie saw a need in a small town and started out small but, there was so much more these kids needed. So she continued to grow and add more services along with professionals who specialize in those particular services. I can't say enough just how much I adore and admire my boss and not just because she's my boss but, because she's a human being who is actually making a difference in this world for the better. Now how often do you get to say that about your boss or your kids school. I am honored to be a part of something so epic, so loving and done genuinely for good out of pure kindness.

Do NOT send your kids here. I will not disclose of any information that could be a violation…read more However, I work for an ABA company that is ran correctly and I can tell you after working here that WSI is ran completely wrong. The clients are there for 4-9 hours a day (depending on them). They are not supposed to exceed 8 hours. Barely any treatment gets done because there are more kids than RBTs (which is UNETHICAL) and the treatment center is a big open room. The clients cannot focus when they have the option to run around crazy and have toys at every corner because there are not individual rooms for each of them. The RBTs are not taught correctly on how to run trials so they have to do their best. They are expected to learn from only an online course with no guidance from a BCaBA or BCBA. A BCBA or BCaBA comes maybe once or twice a month to "help" and give you "supervision", but they do things WRONG and teach things the wrong way. The owner does not care about the kids, only the money. A lead RBT is put in charge (in place of a clinical supervisor who is in college for ABA). A lead RBT/manager (usually) has no college education on ABA & most of the time they don't have any experience in it at all & just wing it. The only good thing I will say about this place is that the RBTs do care about the kids. However, this place needs to be SHUT DOWN! I would NEVER send my kid here. Maybe for daycare, not for ABA therapy. If your child is waitlisted for a reputable company, just wait for them!!!!!! There is a waitlist for a reason!!!!! Do not come here in the mean time! It will make it harder for a good company to get work done.

Would give 0 stars if possible!!! Please save your children the trauma by not sending them here!…read moreThey have a seclusion room parents are NOT aware of and will lock you child in there WITHOUT your consent! Not to mention they are silencing the families by deleting reviews!

Provides Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy and ABA-based education services. Also provides…read moreon-site speech and occupational therapy. There is simply no comparison. There's no other non-profit center within hundreds of miles of Okaloosa County that provides such a wide variety of high quality therapy and education services for children with autism. The Emerald Coast Autism Center (ECAC) is absolutely outstanding. They opened with just a small staff in 2009, and in less than four years have grown to become the largest private provider of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy and ABA-based education in the State of Florida. Over 20 percent of the families who've enrolled their children in ECAC's full-time program moved here from outside the state of Florida, specifically for that purpose. Two of those families moved to the Niceville area from outside the United States, and are living here on Visas, to ensure their child gets the therapy services they need. ECAC accepts children with the most difficult autism-related behaviors. And seven of their full-time students have already graduated out of the Center's full time program and are now attending other schools around the country, being educated in classrooms of "typically developing" students. I know a number of parents who made other choices and ended up moving their child to ECAC after becoming frustrated with their previous ABA provider. Experts in the field say that early intervention and intensive ABA therapy gives a newly diagnosed child the best chance of being able to live as "normal" a life as is possible. Because every month lost with a with a "marginal" ABA provider reduces a child's chances for success it's critical to make your first decision a the correct decision, when selecting an ABA provider. I do not have a child with autism. But I know a number of parents who do. If I had a child on the spectrum I wouldn't even speak to another provider until I've visited the Emerald Coast Autism Center, and spoke to their director.