Our Story

The Orchard story lacks a precise beginning. Perhaps it starts with a cousin, vocalizing ever so loudly, swinging hour after hour, puzzling everyone around. Perhaps the story begins after undergraduate school with a part-time job as an ABA therapist, traveling between children’s homes and schools. Or perhaps it starts while working as an administrator for a school district for over a decade.

I’ll start it in April 2018, when the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts held their annual convention in St. Louis. While reading the program, a workshop entitled “Starting Your Own ABA Agency” intrigued me. This was not something I had strongly considered doing, though my husband had encouraged me to do so for years. A question posed by the speakers stuck with me: “What more can we, what more can you, do for children?”

A seed was planted.

Two years later, with the nutrients of consideration and planning (and a lot of help along the way), that seed of a question has blossomed into Orchard Learning & Behavior Services. Starting as an ABA clinic, Orchard aims to cultivate each child’s capacity through high-quality ABA services. We believe that both learning and teaching should be both fun and meaningful.

At Orchard, we nurture the seeds of success that each child inherently has.