Your child picks up a few skills in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) sessions, like stacking blocks or waiting a moment longer for a turn. These moments spark joy, but weeks later progress flattens—repetitions yield the same limited results.

Every day as a parent, you notice how your child with autism seems to run on a different energy rhythm—perhaps fading fast by afternoon despite breakfast, reacting strongly to certain smells at mealtime, or having moods that swing in ways hard to predict.