What ABA therapy is
Applied Behavior Analysis is a clinical service. It's delivered by Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) under the supervision of a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), who designs the behavior plan, sets goals, and reviews documentation.
Sessions are billable — typically to insurance or Medicaid — and the RBT writes session notes that get reviewed against the plan. The work is structured, measured, and reported back.
What an off-duty RBT does on our platform
When an RBT takes a sitting booking through us, they are sitting. They are not running a behavior plan. They are not writing session notes. They are not billing insurance. They are not doing ABA.
What they bring is the experience of having spent 20 hours a week with kids like yours. They know what helps and what doesn't. They are not flustered by behavior another sitter might find overwhelming. That's the value — and it's distinct from delivering therapy.
Why we are explicit about this
Two reasons. First, regulatory: representing a sitting booking as ABA therapy would put the RBT, their employer, and us on the wrong side of the BACB rules and Idaho licensing.
Second, and more important: families deserve clarity. If you need ABA, you need ABA — with a BCBA, with goals, with measurable progress. We are not that. If we ever pretended to be that, we'd be doing you a disservice.
When you need each
If your kid is in active ABA, your sessions are the work. Your sitter — from us or anywhere else — is the person who lets you go to dinner.
If you don't have ABA in place and you think you need it, talk to your pediatrician or the ABA clinics in the Treasure Valley directly. We'll happily point you toward local options. The clinical work is theirs to do.
If what you need is companionship and supervision from someone who already gets it, that's where we fit.