Up to $32,455 a year for your child’s ABA — through Ohio’s Autism Scholarship.

Yes — and most of our families do. ASP and Medicaid (or commercial insurance) can layer to cover the same child without overlap. We bill insurance for the core ABA hours and use ASP funds for the services insurance won’t cover, like extended-day programming, certain parent-training models, or related therapies inside the IEP. You don’t have to figure out the split — our billing team does it.

You request one from your district’s special-education office in writing — we’ll give you a template letter. Once you submit the request, the district has 30 days to evaluate and 30 days more to convene the IEP meeting. If your child is under age 3, you start with an IFSP through Help Me Grow and transition to an IEP at age 3. In the meantime, we can start ABA under insurance and add ASP the moment the IEP signs.

For most of our part-day ASP families, yes — $0 out of pocket. For full-day, full-week programming, ASP combined with Medicaid or your commercial insurance covers the full cost in the large majority of cases. If there’s a gap, we’ll tell you the exact dollar amount before you ever start — never a surprise on the back end.

No. Accepting ASP is not a withdrawal from your district. You’re still entitled to a public-school placement any time you decide to return, and the IEP stays the property of the family. Many of our families use ASP for a year or two during early-intervention years and then transition back to district programming once skills stabilize.

The Ohio Department of Education usually issues a decision within 30 days of a complete submission. If anything is missing — an outdated IEP, a missing diagnosis page — the state sends us a request for correction and we resubmit the same day. We’ve had families fully approved in under three weeks.