Behavior is communication. Our job is helping you hear it.
Oak & Arrow provides in-home ABA therapy across eastern Connecticut, designed and led by two Board Certified Behavior Analysts, in the place where your child’s routines actually live.
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If you’ve been trying to find help
Most families who call have already made the other calls. An intake line, an insurance check, and then a waitlist quoted in months. Across Connecticut, families routinely wait half a year or more for ABA services to begin.
Oak & Arrow is two Board Certified Behavior Analysts, working in homes across eastern Connecticut and currently accepting new families. Small on purpose, and faster to start because of it.
The people behind
Oak & Arrow
Paige Tully
I’m Paige Tully, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst based in Griswold. This work found me at a local elementary school, where I worked closely with a student with autism and never really looked back. I became an RBT in 2014 and a BCBA in 2020, and I’ve spent those years in living rooms and classrooms across eastern Connecticut, helping kids carry their skills between home, school, and everywhere else life happens.
I’m also a mom of four, so I know exactly how much a family has going on, and how much it matters to feel heard in your own child’s care.
Tiffany Salvatore
I’m Tiffany Salvatore, I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), licensed in Connecticut. Prior to my work in behavior analysis, I served students for more than 10 years as a Special Education Teacher. In this role, I supported students with behavioral needs from grades K-12. This background has given me a deep appreciation for individualized programming that is data driven, yet compassionate.
I strongly believe that the most important skills are those that foster independence and promote access to shared experiences.
What we work on
Every child’s plan is built from an assessment, not a menu. These are the five areas most of our work falls into.
Social Skills
Taking turns, reading the room, making and keeping friends. Practiced in real settings, because that’s where friendships actually happen.
Functional Communication
Helping your child ask for what they need, in words, signs, or pictures. For many kids this is where everything else starts.
Behavior Support
Aggression, bolting, transitions that run the house. Every behavior is doing a job for your child. We find the job, then teach a safer, easier way to get it done.
Executive Functioning
Routines, transitions, starting and finishing things. The skills that make school days and mornings work.
Daily Living Skills
Dressing, brushing teeth, washing hands, cleaning up. Everyday routines, taught step by step until your child can run them on their own.
Parent Collaboration
You’re part of every session, because the plan only works if it keeps working after I leave. Teaching you is part of the job.
Something else going on?
Most of what families bring me doesn’t fit neatly in a box, and the assessment is where we find out what actually helps.
What in-home actually means
A session at your house looks like your normal life, with your behavior analyst in it. If mealtime is the hard part, we’re there at mealtime. If mornings fall apart, we come in the morning. We watch what’s already happening, because twenty minutes of a real routine tells us more than any form.
How we work
Assent matters
When a child says no, that means something. If a session isn’t working for your child, the session changes.
Strengths first
Goals build communication, safety, and independence. The aim is never to make your child seem less autistic. It’s a life with less frustration and more of what they love.
Parents are in
the room
You’re never sent away during sessions. The plan only works if it keeps working after we leave, so teaching you is part of the job.
How to Get Started
Insurance and private pay, explained honestly
Oak & Arrow is in-network with Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, and HUSKY (Medicaid). For other plans, you pay for sessions directly, and there’s no insurance authorization standing between your family and a start date. That trade is the reason new families can usually begin quickly.
Each month you’ll receive a superbill, an itemized receipt with the codes insurers use. Depending on your plan’s out-of-network benefits, you may be able to submit it for partial reimbursement. Whether that works depends entirely on your plan, so we’d rather you check than take anyone’s word for it.
Full details, including what sessions cost, are on the Insurance & Payment page.
In your home, across Eastern Connecticut
In-home sessions across eastern Connecticut:
Questions Parents Ask
Yes. We’re in-network with Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, and HUSKY (Medicaid). For other plans, Oak & Arrow is private pay, and I provide monthly superbills you may be able to submit for partial out-of-network reimbursement. The Insurance & Payment page explains exactly how that works.
Usually within weeks of your first call, depending on scheduling fit. [VERIFY TIMELINE]
All ages, from 0 to 25. Our team has experience across that whole range, so the plan is built around whatever your child needs support with, at whatever age they are.
Yes, and honestly, that’s a feature. Parent involvement is how the progress sticks around after I leave.
That’s a fair question and it deserves a real answer. My practice is assent-based: your child’s no means something, sessions adjust to the child, and no goal ever aims at making them seem less autistic. Ask me about this on our first call. I’d rather you ask than worry.
Start with the interest form
Tell me a little about what’s going on. You’ll hear back from me, not an intake department, within 24 business hours.
Interest Form
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