Our Mission

Rethink Autism's Mission:

Offering parents and professionals immediate access to effective and affordable Applied Behavior Analysis-based treatment tools for the growing population affected by autism spectrum disorders.

Our Goal:

To improve access to effective, affordable treatment by providing parents and teachers with a state-of-the-art, easy-to-follow, web-based curriculum and proven teaching tools.

We Believe:

Everyone should have access to effective intervention. When a child is diagnosed with autism, early and intensive treatment is crucial. No child’s progress should be delayed due to high costs, waiting lists, or the scarcity of trained professionals. Rethink Autism bridges the gap between children and effective treatment by teaching parents and teachers how and what to teach so that intervention can begin now.

Every parent and teacher can make a difference. Rethink Autism recognizes that parents are a child’s best and most important teacher. Our web-based curriculum provides dynamic, easy-to-follow video trainings so that parents and other teachers can learn the skills necessary to begin teaching their child today.

Every child can learn. Rethink Autism believes that with the right tools and support, every single child with autism can make progress. Our program shows parents and teachers how to teach so that they can discover all that a child is truly capable of achieving. We provide instruction on how to improve a range of meaningful skills — from learning to answer questions, to participating in a haircut. Our program allows parents and teachers to individualize instruction and programming goals so that each child can learn at their own pace and skill level.

Interventions based on applied behavior analysis are the most effective. Research has shown that interventions based on applied behavior analysis maximize the developmental potential of children with autism. Rethink Autism’s ground-breaking curriculum translates thirty years of proven research into proven techniques that parents and teachers can learn, and then use to bring the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.