A Budding Futures behavior technician comes to your home, and a BCBA builds and supervises an individualized plan. We help children and teens with autism spectrum disorder in every Colorado city, from 18 months through 18 years, with no waitlist right now.
Request a Free Consultation →A Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) arrives at your door, warms up with a few minutes of play, and then works the plan in the rooms where the skills matter. Asking for a snack happens in your kitchen. Toileting happens in your bathroom. Getting dressed happens in the bedroom.
Every target is logged in CentralReach during the session, so your BCBA can see your child's progress the same day. The last part of most therapy sessions is parent coaching, where you learn the strategy your child just practiced.
Budding Futures teaches through play and natural environment teaching (NET), the evidence-based ABA approach that fits a young learner's natural environment. Sessions run on positive reinforcement and your child's assent. A child can ask for a break, and we honor it.
Two people. A behavior technician runs the day-to-day sessions, and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) writes the individualized treatment plan, visits to supervise, and meets with you. Rachel Blackburn, BCBA, our Clinical Director, reviews every plan, and we collaborate with your child's pediatrician, speech therapist or school when you give permission.
Your child works with the same technician session after session, not a rotating cast. Every clinician clears enhanced background checks and fingerprinting before meeting your family, and our BCBAs hold Colorado licensure through DORA.
Assesses your child at home with VB-MAPP and ABLLS-R, sets the goals and weekly hours, reviews the data every week, and adjusts the plan as your child grows.
Delivers the sessions in your home. Completed 40 hours of training, a competency assessment and the RBT exam before working with any child.
Parents and caregivers get the same strategies the technician uses, so the skill keeps working after the car pulls away.
Our technicians need a clean-enough bathroom and some floor space to play. Old houses, small apartments and busy homes with siblings are normal. One behavior technician on r/ABA put it plainly: "We just need a clean enough bathroom and floor space to play/work."
An adult stays in the house during every session. You do not have to sit beside the technician. Give them space, stay reachable, and join the coaching part at the end. Many parents use the time to make dinner or sit with a sibling.
Most children warm up within a few sessions. A compassionate technician builds rapport slowly and follows your child's lead before any teaching starts. If the match is not working, tell us, and we change it.
There is no fixed number. Your BCBA sets weekly hours from the assessment, from your child's needs and goals, and from what your child can actually use, then reviews the data every week. Health First Colorado authorizes ABA hours through a prior authorization request (PAR) that lasts up to six months at a time.
Across 1,468 children in eight states including Colorado, the average ABA course ran about 14 months (Linstead et al., 2017). In that study, how long a child stayed in therapy mattered more than how many hours a week they had.
That is why we never sell a seven-hour day. Parent coaching takes 10 to 20% of the plan, and sessions are spread around school and naps. Read how many hours of ABA therapy a child in Colorado usually needs.
Budding Futures works in your home and in school settings. We do not run a clinic or an ABA center in Colorado. Some children do better in a center-based ABA therapy program, so here is the plain difference before you choose.
| At home with Budding Futures | Clinic-based ABA | |
|---|---|---|
| Where skills are practiced | Your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and yard, so the skill sticks where it breaks down | A therapy room, with carryover to home practiced later |
| Parent involvement | You are coached in the moment, in your own routine | Scheduled parent sessions, usually at the clinic |
| Travel | None. The therapist drives to you | Two trips a day, most days of the week |
| Peer practice | Siblings, playgrounds, daycare and community outings | Built-in groups with other children |
| Often the better fit for | Potty training, mealtimes, bedtime, elopement and morning routines | A child who needs a quiet, highly structured room away from home distractions |
Clinic-based programs and ABA therapy centers earn their place when a child needs a controlled room or daily peer practice. If a center is the better match for your child, we will say so. Behavioral therapy only works when the setting fits the family. Our guide to choosing an ABA provider in Colorado walks through both therapy options.
Yes, in Colorado they usually do. Health First Colorado Medicaid covers ABA therapy for children under 21 through EPSDT, and most Medicaid families pay $0. Colorado's autism insurance law also requires commercial insurance plans to cover ABA therapy for autism. Budding Futures is enrolled under Provider Types 83 and 84, handles the prior authorization, and never balance-bills. Commercial plans usually land between $0 and $500 out of pocket. Private pay runs about $120 to $150 per hour. See our Medicaid ABA therapy in Colorado page and the Colorado cost breakdown.
Not sure if your plan covers ABA? We verify your benefits before your first session at no cost. Already know your carrier? See Aetna, Cigna, Anthem BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser, TRICARE or Humana.
Home is where most goals live, but not all of them. When a plan calls for it, sessions move to the park, the grocery store, your child's daycare, or their school. School-day sessions need the district's permission, and some Colorado schools make that easy while others make it hard. We reach out with your consent and tell you what access looks like before you count on it.
We also coordinate with your child's speech therapy and school team when you give permission, so all of the autism services in your child's life point the same way. See school-based ABA therapy across Colorado, ABA at daycare, and early intervention ABA for toddlers, which starts at 18 months and almost always happens at home.
Budding Futures ABA runs from a Denver office and sends therapists to homes across the Front Range, the Western Slope and southern Colorado, including Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. Start with your city, or call us if it is not listed. We provide ABA therapy services in Colorado statewide, so autism in Colorado never means a clinic commute.
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Your town is not listed? We still come to you. Budding Futures serves every city in Colorado, including mountain towns and the Eastern Plains.
There is no fixed session length, and no clinical guideline publishes one. Your BCBA sets the weekly total from the assessment, and most families spread it across several days around school and naps. Colorado Medicaid authorizes hours for up to six months at a time, then the BCBA reviews the data and adjusts the therapy plan.
Yes, an adult stays home. You do not have to sit in the room. Give the technician and your child space, stay reachable, and join the parent coaching at the end of the session.
No. Technicians need a clean-enough bathroom and some floor space to play. Old houses, small apartments and busy homes with siblings are normal.
Yes. Medicaid covers ABA therapy for children under 21 through EPSDT, and most Medicaid families pay $0. Budding Futures is enrolled under Provider Types 83 and 84 and submits the prior authorization request for you. More on Medicaid ABA in Colorado →
Yes. Budding Futures assigns a consistent RBT to your family. Your child builds a real relationship with their technician, and that consistency is what makes progress hold.
That is completely normal. A compassionate technician builds rapport slowly, following your child's lead, and most children warm up within a few sessions. You are home the whole time, and if the match is not working we change it.
Children and teens with autism from 18 months through 18. Most families receiving ABA therapy at home start between ages 2 and 6, and we provide personalized programs for older kids and teens with autism too.
Yes, when the plan calls for it. Daycare, the park and the grocery store are common. School-day sessions need the district's permission, which some Colorado schools grant easily and some do not. How school-based ABA works in Colorado →
Yes. ABA therapy works best when a skill is practiced where it is used, and the field of ABA has decades of research behind it for children with ASD. Our experience supporting children in Colorado is why we start at home and coach parents the whole way.
For potty training, mealtimes, bedtime and morning routines, home is usually the better fit, because the skill is practiced where it breaks down. A child who needs a quiet, highly structured room or daily peer groups may do better at a center. We tell families which of the two therapy options we think fits.
There is no waitlist right now. Families who start ABA with us usually finish intake and benefits verification in a couple of weeks, then a BCBA assesses your child at home and sessions begin. How we keep wait times short →
Choosing an ABA provider in Colorado
The questions to ask any provider, home-based or clinic, before you sign.
Medicaid ABA therapy in Colorado
How Health First Colorado authorization, hours and in-home scheduling connect.
ABA at home for toddlers
What a session looks like with an 18-month-old to 3-year-old, and how parents and caregivers are coached.
Real Google reviews from families receiving trusted ABA therapy at home, from toddlers to teens with autism.
"Wonderful in-home therapy provider in Denver. Thank you so much!"
"My son loves his RBT Dani, she is a super star. As well as Mark and Rachel always keeping in check and checking in."
"Budding Futures ABA gives amazing in-home ABA therapy in Colorado. Would definitely recommend for anyone with children with autism."
Rated 5.0 on Google from 17 reviews. Read all of our Google reviews →
She writes and reviews every treatment plan, and supervises the therapists who work in your home.
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He founded Budding Futures and runs the day to day, from a family's first phone call onward.
Read Mark's profileHablamos Español. Terapia ABA en casa para familias hispanohablantes.
Ver Servicios en Español →Budding Futures is enrolled as a Colorado Medicaid ABA provider. Every staff member completes enhanced background checks and fingerprinting before working with families, and our customized ABA therapy plans are reviewed weekly. Our BCBA supervision target sits around 20%, well above the BACB 5% minimum, when clinically appropriate. See how we are built and held accountable.
In-home therapy removes the unfamiliar clinic, which matters for an anxious child. More on trauma-informed ABA therapy.
Deciding whether to start at all? We read the for-and-against threads in is ABA therapy good or bad, where parents on both sides landed on the same answer.
One call is all it takes. We'll verify your insurance, answer your questions, and connect you with a BCBA who will build a plan around your child and your family. No pressure, no commitment for that first conversation.