In-Home ABA Therapy in Waterford, CT
Shoreline families, an in-home option, and an honest drive time.
Waterford families usually look toward New London and Groton for services and find the same waitlists everyone else does. Oak & Arrow is based in Griswold, about thirty-five minutes north; Waterford is at the coastal edge of our radius, inside it, and in-home here means sessions in your actual house on your actual schedule.
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. Waterford is the far coastal end of our radius; we keep it on the map because the shoreline’s in-home options are thin and the district is worth coordinating with.
Getting started in Waterford
Oak & Arrow is based in Griswold, about 35 to 40 minutes from Waterford, which puts you near the edge of where we work. We’ll be honest about what that means: sessions here are usually scheduled in longer blocks and fewer time slots, so the drive is worth it for everyone, and we’ll tell you on our first call whether our current openings fit your schedule before anyone gets invested.
Serving Waterford
Waterford Public Schools run Great Neck, Oswegatchie, and Quaker Hill elementary schools into Clark Lane Middle and Waterford High, a complete in-district system; the special education office is the front door. Harkness Memorial State Park and Waterford Beach Park are two of the best community-practice settings on the shoreline, wide open with natural boundaries, and the proximity to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London is where many Waterford families’ first evaluations happen. Waterford is also home to Camp Harkness, a 102-acre state property on Long Island Sound set aside for people with disabilities and their families; any Connecticut resident with a disability can get a pass, and the grounds include an accessible playscape and a beachfront.
What Waterford families
ask about most
Social skills and executive functioning for school-age kids in a larger district, plus communication work for younger children. Shoreline families often ask about private pay versus insurance, so the money conversation happens early here.
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 Waterford families
Yes, at the coastal edge, about thirty-five minutes, scheduled in longer blocks; we’ll tell you on the first call whether our openings fit.
When a goal calls for it and you’re comfortable, yes.
With your consent, yes.
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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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