Friendship Community Care, Inc. in Russellville provides intensive autism therapy to children until age 5. Those from 0-3 receive care under a TEACCH model. Children from 3-5 continue to use the TEACCH model as well as the nonverbal approach developed by Dr. Vincent Carbone. This program can take Medicaid payments, provides most of the therapy, and trains parents in the techniques.

Please contact (479) 967-2322

Suzanne Belk works as a behavioral intervention consultant for the Arkansas Department of Education. She conducts the ABLLS, the VB-MAPP, and some curriculum-based assessments on school children.  For social skills she uses the Social Skills Assessment material from Ligui-Systems and Michelle Garcia WInner from the Center for Social Thinking in creating appropriate goals and objectives for children on the Spectrum.

She sees children privately for ABA as well as contracts with local school districts for educational consultation and ABA.  She can work with students on functional routines/community based instruction through their ABA programs as well.  She serves a wide population of clients across the spectrum ranging in age from 3-17 at the current time.

 Please call Suzanne Belk for more information at (870) 919-1596

Dr. Bowman works at the ACH Child Study Center conducting numerous social skills classes for children with autism. She trains both Ph.D. and M.S. students in social skills therapy in Little Rock.  Parents can receive training through Dr. Bowman in discrete trials or Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT).

Please contact the Child Study Center for more information.

Dr. Ekdahl is willing to work with families to establish an ABA-type intervention. She is an established private practice psychologist who would like to work with individuals on the autism spectrum.

My graduate school (Binghamton University) was a behavioral program and I did very intensive ABA programming with children there at the Children's Unit for Treatment and Evaluation under the supervision of Raymond Romanczyk.  Before graduate school, I worked as an aide implementing ABA programs in a school.  I graduated with my Ph.D. in 1995.

Please contact Dr. Ekdahl at (501) 771-4442 for more information.

Chris Ewing of Arkansas Department of Education CIRCUIT also runs the firm Innovative Behavior Analysis Support Systems that provides home ABA services such as ABLLS-R. Please visit his site for more information.

Terry Henderson is a BCBA working currently in a mental health clinic.  With past experience in ABA therapy for children, she would be willing to use ABLLS-R and the VB-MAPP. She is licensed for LPEI and BCBA. She is not currently active in autism therapy but is a good contact person for area families.

Please contact terryhenderson2004@yahoo.com

Lynne Hollaway, OTL/R provides RDI treatment. The RDI program rebuilds the child with autism's social connections. Rather than using outside therapists, RDI  is a "parent-based program aiming to alter the child’s environments to allow for more adaptability in dynamic settings."

For more information, contact Lynne at rdi@pedsplustherapy.com.

Beth McKee has many of years of experience in ABA programs in New York State.  Her company Autism Arkansas provides home ABA services to area families. Ms. McKee is currently establishing a school to treat autism in Northwest Arkansas.

1220 Stone St
Jonesboro, AR 72401-4519
(870) 931-4200

Dayna Miller and Julie Adkins of Jonesboro recently opened SPARC of Arkansas, or Special Pediatric Autism and Research Clinic, in August of 2009. SPARC offers heavily discounted therapy services to all disabled children, including autism treatments such as ABA and social skills classes.

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