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Parents and providers press board to allow third‑party medical ABA in classrooms; board approves a policy update and forms advisory committee
Summary
After hours of public comment from parents, clinicians and advocates, the USD 383 board approved revisions to its visitors‑in‑schools policy and directed an advisory committee to study outside providers — including medically prescribed ABA — with an initial report due by November.
Parents, clinicians and advocates urged the Manhattan‑Ogden USD 383 Board of Education to preserve access to medical applied behavior analysis (ABA) services in school classrooms during public comment on revisions to the district’s visitors‑in‑schools policy.
Kevin Steinmetz, a parent of a student at Theodore Roosevelt, described classroom‑based medical ABA as a medically prescribed intervention that “works” for many children on the autism spectrum and stressed the difference between medical ABA and classroom‑based educational supports. “This is why ABA therapy is the go to prescribed medical intervention for autism. It works,” Steinmetz said, and urged the board not to adopt a policy that would bar medically prescribed ABA providers from delivering services in classrooms.
Other parents and local clinicians echoed those concerns. Rebecca Price,…
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