Results

ABA services are expensive regardless where you are in the world.  Most programs run over $100,000 annually if a full program is necessary.  All agencies have a choice when choosing to offer this service. They can either choose to make the services the least expensive and in turn sacrifice some of the quality, or they can focus on quality and sacrifice by having to charge more but maintain the highest quality.

Quality of an ABA program isn’t just the direct therapist but the heightened supervision, oversight, and curriculum.  We find that our direct therapists learn at a faster rate due to the supervision aspect of our center. Though home based therapy is more convenient for parents, and offers opportunities for generalization, home based therapy doesn’t offer the same level of supervision and support for the therapists and the program.  Supervisors who are on site and monitoring the child’s treatment on a daily basis are able to better maintain and direct the program.

At Pacific Autism Center we are tuition based.  All costs are similar to fees the department of education currently pays for these services and span from several thousand to over ten thousand a month. Packages are organized by the number of direct service hours a child receives per week. This is completely based on what the child needs.  Parents are given different options and are free to chose one of the appropriate options.  At Pacific Autism Center we require that children make progress so we would not accept a child below the recommended range of hours, and would encourage the parent to save until full funding could be secured.

In addition to the direct 1:1 service, children at Pacific Autism Center receive full management and supervision of their programs which is no small feat.  It entails the training and maintaining of qualified therapists, supervision of staff and of the program, daily program updates, reports, individual therapy rooms, inclusion peer group accessibility, video monitoring, creation of the materials for programs, managing the log book and the program materials, scheduling of staff and all activities, speech and OT therapy, play areas, general reinforcements, parent training, and parent meetings.

Our center runs year round with minimal breaks. We don’t believe in giving the children opportunities to regress. Therefore there are 12 days that are taken per year for holidays or around holidays and our staff work all other days.

Our Packages

We offer smaller packages for after school services where a child is mainstreamed but still requires programs to work on social skills, academics and conversation skills.

One Quarter Package (10 hours a week)

One Third Package (15 hours a week)

For children who are part time in another school but still have many programs or is in beginning or intermediate programming this package is ideal for them:

Half Package (20 hours a week)

Our most common program and the ones that follow the research are our intensive program packages as seen below:

Three Fourths package (30 Hours a week)

Full package (36 hours)

Full Premium Package (42 Hours a week)

Full Premium Plus Package (46 hours a week and includes Saturday mornings)

All the Full programs include Speech therapy as well as the Three Fourths Program Package. We offer annual tuition where a child receives all their program needs for an entire calendar year. Where parents choose to pay as they go, invoices are based on monthly tuition.

Workshops

For all workshop based services, we work with families on a monthly basis to meet with the team and direct the programs. Typically we will do an observation in the school, observe 1-2 sessions per month and meet with the team for 2-4 hours once a month. This rate however does not include travel expenses, lodging expenses and a per diem per day depending where the client is located. Any of the services off of Oahu would be minimal. Cost: $125.00* per hour, plus travel.

Other Services

Full Evaluations - $750.00* Partial Evaluations are available and the fee depends upon the previous evaluations that have been completed over the prior year to review.

Social Skills Group - $250.00* per month

*None of the above fees above include taxes.  Hawaii state taxes are included on all invoices.