About On Target ABA

Built around your child. Backed by your whole family .

Evidence-based ABA therapy for children ages 2–18, delivered in the settings that work best — center, home, school, and daycare — with comprehensive support for every family we serve.

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Since day one

Quality care without the wait.

Ages

We serve 2–18

Our Mission

To provide the highest quality of ABA therapy in a fun, collaborative environment for the optimal development of children with autism through individualized services and comprehensive support to children and their families.

About Us

A goal as clear as it gets.

Our goal is to see children succeed within their home environment, school environment, socially, emotionally, verbally, and functionally overall.

We provide evidence-based ABA therapy to children, ages 2–18, across multiple service settings — including center-based, in-home, school-based and daycare-based ABA therapy.

We specialize in early intervention for children with autism and offer a collaborative approach across three core service paths.

Early Intervention Day Program

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Center-Based ABA Therapy

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In-Home ABA Therapy

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Improving Quality of Life

Not just sitting at a table. No way.

At On Target ABA we look to improve quality of life in multiple ways — including group interaction where kids work on appropriately taking turns, sharing, and calming strategies.

Group interaction

Kids work on appropriately taking turns, sharing, and calming strategies alongside peers.

Different areas to work & play

Plus, we have different areas for children to work and play in. They're not just sitting at a table. No way. Not here. Not at On Target ABA.

Real-world experiences

A comprehensive, collaborative approach rooted in behavioral and developmental techniques that incorporate real-world experiences to prepare your child for life beyond our clinic.

Ilana Gross, BCBA — Clinical Director and Founder

Credential

BCBA Certified

Meet Our Founder and Director

Ilana Gross, BCBA

Clinical Director

Ilana received her bachelor's degree in Speech and Language Pathology from Touro College in Brooklyn, NY and went on to earn a dual Master's in Education and Special Education from Mercy College in Yonkers, NY.

She has an advanced certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from the Florida Institute of Technology. Ilana is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and has over a decade of experience in Special Education and ABA.

She has advanced training and vast experience in Early Intervention, Verbal Behavior, Natural Environment Teaching (NET) and Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA).

BCBA Early Intervention Verbal Behavior NET FBA

Her Story & Philosophy

Why On Target ABA exists.

Ilana started On Target ABA after years inside classrooms, clinics, and family homes — watching brilliant kids stall on waitlists, get assigned cookie-cutter programs, or be handed over to a rotating cast of providers. She knew the field could do better, and she built a practice around it.

I believe every child can make meaningful progress when the plan is built around who they actually are — not who a manual says they should be. Our job is to listen first, measure honestly, and meet families where they live.

— Ilana Gross, BCBA · Clinical Director

The insight that shaped her approach

Early in her career, Ilana worked with a non-verbal 4-year-old whose program targeted compliance and tabletop drills — and went nowhere for months. She rebuilt the plan around the child's love of dinosaurs and outdoor play, ran sessions on the floor, and tracked communication in the moments that mattered to the family. Within weeks, words came. That child taught her the lesson that still drives every clinical decision at On Target ABA: start with the child's world, then bring the science to it.

Why she started On Target ABA

She watched families wait six, nine, twelve months for services after a diagnosis — and saw the developmental cost of every lost week. On Target ABA was founded on a single promise: quality care without the wait. That means short intake timelines, clinicians who answer the phone, and programs that are built (and rebuilt) around the child — not pulled from a binder.

What makes her methodology different

Ilana blends Verbal Behavior, Natural Environment Teaching, and play-based intervention with rigorous Functional Behavior Assessment — the science stays tight, but the sessions never feel clinical. Goals are written with parents at the table, progress is reviewed in plain language every two weeks, and we adjust the plan the moment the data tells us to. No black boxes. No "trust us, it's working."

How she mentors her team

Ilana personally supervises BCBA case loads and runs weekly clinical rounds with the full team. RBTs get hands-on coaching in session — not paperwork lectures — and BCBAs are paired with her on complex cases so the next generation of clinicians learn the way she did: by watching, doing, and being held to a high bar. The result is a team that thinks like clinicians, behaves like family, and shows up the same way on day 300 as on day 1.

10+

Years in Special Education & ABA

2–18

Ages served, every plan individualized

72hr

Typical time from call to first conversation

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