In-Home ABA Therapy in Norwich, CT
Norwich has centers. Your child might not need one.
Norwich is where eastern Connecticut’s center-based ABA programs live, and for some children a center is exactly right. For many others, the skills that matter most, mornings, mealtimes, bedtime, asking for help, are easier to build where they actually happen. Oak & Arrow is a small practice led by two Board Certified Behavior Analysts, based fifteen minutes away in Griswold, that comes to your home in Norwich, from Norwichtown to Taftville to the East Side, and builds a plan you can read.
Services designed and led by Oak & Arrow’s Board Certified Behavior Analysts: Paige Tully, BCBA #1-20-44228, CT license BA.001021, and Tiffany Salvatore, BCBA #1-25-81796, CT license BA.001840. Both came to behavior analysis from the classroom. Norwich is the hub our whole radius bends around, and both of our BCBAs know its school system from the inside.
Getting started in Norwich
Oak & Arrow is based in Griswold, about 15 to 20 minutes from Norwich. That’s comfortably inside our radius: after-school sessions are realistic, and we plan routes so families in this corridor aren’t paying for our windshield time.
Serving Norwich
Norwich Public Schools run the city’s elementary and middle schools, and Norwich Free Academy serves as the high school for Norwich and several surrounding towns; the district’s special education office and NFA’s support services are two different front doors, which matters for families with kids at both levels. Mohegan Park and Spaulding Pond are the best community-practice settings in the city, the Otis Library runs children’s programming, including a periodic Sensory Storytime that is worth watching the calendar for, and Backus Hospital’s pediatric connections are where many Norwich families first hear the word “evaluation.” The local pain point is real: Norwich has the region’s center programs and they carry the region’s waitlists. Norwich Public Schools’ Family Resource Center at John M. Moriarty Elementary runs free playgroups for children from birth to age 4 and offers developmental screenings through Parents as Teachers home visits, an easy first step if you have early questions.
What Norwich families
ask about most
In a city with center options, families reach out to us about the two things centers struggle with: communication and behavior inside real home routines, and parent collaboration that turns a plan into a household. School collaboration with a large district comes up constantly.
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.
How to Get Started
Questions from Norwich families
Because the skills you’re probably calling about live at home, and because we can often start while the centers’ lists are still months long. If a center is the better fit for your child, we’ll say so.
With your consent, yes, and the two are different offices; we know which door to knock on.
All of it: Norwichtown, Taftville, Greeneville, the East Side, Occum, Yantic. It’s one drive from Griswold.
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.
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