PARENTS, you need to be heavy-handed when securing care for your child. My family has lost 2.5…read moreyears of life-changing early intervention (EI) for autism. Getting a DIAGNOSIS is the best thing that you can do for your child who has delays/autism. Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) is like the gold standard for treating most of the problems that autistic children have but it's only accessible with a diagnosis. "The 2001 National Research Council (NRC) report Educating Children with Autism recommended children with ASD receive a minimum of 25 hours of intervention per week, 12 months a year. Available research suggests children with ASD require a certain intensity of services to ensure their continued development and progress."https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/autism/case-modules/early-intervention/03-closer-look.html PARENTS, be very wary of any doctor or specialist who advocates a wait and see passive approach to your child's delays. Time is not your friend. Behaviors become entrenched will require 4x more therapy at $120/hour than if dealt with earlier. I've done hundreds of hours of research to get my daughter the appropriate help. The research is extremely clear that EI is a child's LIFELINE when it comes to developmental delays. "Wait and see," "wait and reevaluate in a few years," etc are useless recommendations that create broken families, dysfunctional homes, severely delayed children, and divorced couples. Waiting and seeing is not advocated by the AAP or CDC. "I can't stress strongly enough the importance of diving into action immediately. Every expert in the field agrees that early intervention is essential and critical. The "wait and see" approach is detrimental to your child. Children with autism tend to avoid things that are difficult, and communication is difficult for them, so they avoid situations where they might be expected to communicate. As a result, they become more isolated and withdrawn. So it's critical that you get a program started right away" (Overcoming Autism, Lynn Kern Koegel PhD). PARENTS, who you take your kids to matters a lot. Dr. Henley of the Healthy Children's Clinic and The Griffin Promise Autism Clinic accomplished more for my daughter in 2 MONTHS than Pediatric Specialists of Tulsa and OSU did in 3.5 YEARS. If left to the devices of these first 2 places, let's just say my daughter would have no hope of ever being mainstreamed, my husband and I would be divorced, etc. OSU cost us almost (another) a year of EI. We went in expecting an ADOS. The report says ADOS was not done. They butchered my child's evaluation. I learned that thanks to my daughter's amazing occupational therapist, Brooke Nelson, and the founder of Building All Children, Kendra Morgan. Watching a kid interact with a dad or mom instead of doing an ADOS will not yield the same results as watching them interact with an examiner or child. Brooke explained, "...if they would have talked to her themselves they would have gotten to see a very different Mikayla," and "we were all (her therapists) expecting it to come back with an official autism diagnosis." PARENTS, I am uploading the results and feedback session from my daughters evaluation at OSU in the hopes that this will help another family not suffer the way that we have. There's an audio and a few videos. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qorpyt77eqmcax9/AABLBl5gtVUl_oLVaj7If86ua?dl=0 I cringed when replaying it and hearing, "I think we could reevaluate her in a couple of years" A COUPLE YEARS??? In the audio at 4:20 you'll hear that kids with autism don't EVER develop social skills. This is NOT true. This is the whole point of therapy - to address deficits, delays, and symptoms. I informed Dr. Rich that I made many errors on the parent questionnaire and she lied & said that would not change anything. PARENTS, EI through the state covers birth to age 3. If some provider just wants to "wait and see" until the child is 3, 4, 5, etc years old, then that window has closed on your child. OSU, you need to do better. You should not be offering psychological evaluations for children when you aren't going to give them the help that they need.

From the owner: The OSU Physician system covers a wide variety of specialties with more than 135,000 patient visits…read moreeach year. The community-based Tulsa clinics serve as a teaching model for OSU medical students. They are staffed by medical residents and faculty physicians. Each clinic provides essential health care to the community, primarily taking care of Tulsas sick poor. From family medicine to specialty care, OSU Physicians clinics serve Tulsa, and Northeast Oklahoma.

We had my son assessed at CLASS in March. Our insurance approved therapy several weeks later. I…read morecalled four times to try to schedule therapy and was told I would receive a call back and never did. What a waste of our time and copay money. If this is an example of how they run their business, it's not a good one.

From the owner: CLASS Oklahoma provides Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to children who have a diagnosis…read moreof autism. We currently serve clients in Tulsa, Bartlesville, and Oklahoma City who are between the ages of 2-6. Skills commonly taught by our team of highly trained therapists include: social skills, language development, academic skills, adaptive living, and many others. We also target behavioral concerns that may be harmful or socially stigmatizing. Call or visit our website today to learn more!

We were referred to ABA 2 summers ago. We were given their contact info after 2 TV advertised local…read morecompanies told us that we were destined to replace both of our AC units by 2021 because of industry rules and regs. ABA came out and fixed the issue for 1/100th of the cost and our units work great still to this day. This last week, my mother/father-in-law had their 4 ton downstairs unit go out(yes, even I could take one look and verify it was fried). ABA installed a 4 ton unit for considerably less than another company had installed a 2 ton upstairs unit for them 4 years ago. Thank you Todd and Kelley! We are forever grateful for you and your ABA team!