-Terrible pay. Whatever they post on Linkedin looks good at first until you realize you're only going to be working 10 hours a week at maximum in your first year. Offset with very weak stipends for technology and transportation. -Staff is entirely incompetent and actually harmful. Scheduling, recruiters, supervisors, even individuals on the same case would never be on the same page with one another. Behavior therapists are NOT medically licensed, this company is hiring people with 0 qualifications to work in this field beyond "I had an autistic son so how hard can this be?", given 2 weeks worth of training on ONLY Aba, with no basis in child psychology, and then sent to work with families The people with actual degrees in this field are off sitting in offices all day. -Though I said some people are nice, this cannot be said of everyone who works there. People would talk condescendingly to me whenever I asked innocuous questions, and I got a feeling after some time that I was not welcome. It is a very lonely job, regardless of what the newsletters would have you believe. -ABA is a harmful practice created by Ivar Lovaas, who was heavily involved in the early homosexual conversion therapy movement and did not consider autistic children to even be human. It uses systems of punishment and reinforcement in order to make your child "normal" by constructing a personality from the ground up around what is considered acceptable traits, and can lead to perpetuated abuse by therapists and guardians. -Autistic people are people. Autism is not a disease that needs to be cured.
