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Board approves visitors policy on first reading after heated debate over in-class ABA therapy
Summary
The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Board of Education approved revisions to its visitors-to-school policy on first reading following public testimony from parents and a student urging the district to allow in-class Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy; the motion passed 4-3 and will return for a second reading.
The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Board of Education approved on first reading revised language governing visitors to schools after a two-hour discussion that focused on whether third‑party Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapists should be permitted in general education classrooms. The motion passed on first reading 4-3; the board scheduled further consideration at its next meeting.
The parents of a student who receives ABA therapy urged the board to allow medically prescribed ABA services inside classrooms. Amanda Grama, a parent, told the board that ABA is "a medical treatment that is prescribed only after a child is diagnosed with autism" and said it had been "life changing" for her daughter: "She is now starting to make progress on goals that have been in her IEP since kindergarten.…
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