An ABA company built to do this right.
Children’s Specialized is a BCBA-led ABA company serving families across NJ,AZ, MD & NC. We’re are own organization – our own clinicians, program and centers – with a clinical partnership that gives our families resources most ABA companies can’t reach.
OUR CLINICAL & RESEARCH PARTNERS
- Children's Specialized Hospital
- RWJBarnabas Health
- Rutgers University
- Brain Health Institute
- RU-CARES
Built by clinicians.
Backed by partners who matter.
We started Children’s Specialized ABA because families kept telling us the same thing: ABA was working at their kids, not with them. We wanted to build something different — an ABA company where the clinical bar is hospital‐grade, parents are real members of the team, and the day‐to‐day still feels like it belongs to a kid.
We’re a standalone organization with our own BCBAs, RBTs, centers and home programs across four states. Our clinical partnership with Children’s Specialized Hospital — an RWJBarnabas Health company — gives our families a warm path to diagnostic evaluations and medical consults. Our research partnership with Rutgers University and the Brain Health Institute keeps our methods honest.
- Independent and BCBA‐led. We set our own clinical standards and run our own care.
- Hospital partnership for what matters. Diagnostic referrals and photo · clinical leadership team medical consults through Children's Specialized Hospital.
- Academic backbone. Rutgers researchers help us evaluate what works — and stop doing what doesn't.
- Severe behavior expertise. Through RU‐CARES, we can support kids other programs turn away.
Three commitments we make to every family.
Care for the whole child
Behavior is one part of a child's world. We pay attention to sleep, feeding, sensory needs, family life and joy — because progress in any of those is progress, full stop.
Evidence over opinion
We use methods with peer‐reviewed support, measure outcomes weekly, and adapt when the data tells us to. We don't chase trends. We chase results.
Family at the center
Parents are the most important member of the team. Every plan we write is a plan we built with you — and one you can keep going on a Tuesday night at home.
The clinicians steering our care.
A leadership team that splits its time between our clinics, our research partners, and the families we serve.
Dr. Sarah Chen, BCBA‐D
Chief Clinical Officer
Marcus Patel, BCBA
VP of Clinical Operations
Dr. Aisha Williams
Director of Research,
Rutgers Liaison
Jenna Rodriguez, MS, BCBA
Director of Family Experience
Accreditations & affiliations
BHCOE
Behavioral Health Center of Excellence accredited
CASP
Council of Autism Service Providers member
ABAI
Association for Behavior Analysis International
Rutgers
Active research partnership and BCBA training pipeline
Want to know more?
Talk to one of our clinicians, tour a center near you, or send us a question — we’ll get back to you within one business day.