Colorado Behavior and Learning Group

Colorado Behavior and Learning Group Providing ABA services in the Pikes Peak Region CBLG offers intensive in home ABA services as well as a full day center based program.

Meet our North Academy clinic. 📍Center-based ABA therapy for children and adolescents on Colorado Springs' north side, c...
09/06/2026

Meet our North Academy clinic. 📍

Center-based ABA therapy for children and adolescents on Colorado Springs' north side, convenient to the neighborhoods along Academy Boulevard and the surrounding school districts.

What a week here looks like:
• One-to-one ABA therapy with a dedicated RBT
• Ongoing supervision and program design by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst
• Individualized goals built from your child's assessment — not a template
• Parent involvement built into the plan, because skills that stay in the clinic aren't finished skills
• Regular data review, so progress is something we can show you rather than something we assure you of

We have availability this fall. Most families start with a conversation and an insurance verification, not a commitment.

Call and ask what a schedule could look like for your child.

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The earliest signs usually aren't about speech. 👶Most families watch for words. But the earliest signals are about conne...
09/05/2026

The earliest signs usually aren't about speech. 👶

Most families watch for words. But the earliest signals are about connection and shared attention, and they often appear well before a first birthday.

Worth paying attention to:
• Not consistently responding to their name by around 12 months
• Not pointing at things to show you, not to request, but just to share "look at that"
• Limited back-and-forth: few smiles returned, little gesture exchange, less babbling toward you
• Not following your gaze when you look at something
• Loss of words or social skills a child previously had, at any age

That last one always warrants a conversation with your pediatrician.

None of these alone means autism. A pattern of them means it's worth an evaluation... and an evaluation costs you far less than waiting does.

Our Parker and Colorado Springs-based teams work with young children and their families every week.

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Autistic girls are diagnosed later than boys, and often not at all. 🔍Part of this is how the diagnostic picture was orig...
09/04/2026

Autistic girls are diagnosed later than boys, and often not at all. 🔍

Part of this is how the diagnostic picture was originally built, largely from studies of boys. Part of it is masking: many autistic girls learn to copy social behavior closely enough to pass, at enormous internal cost.

What gets missed:
• Intense interests that look socially typical: a band, an animal, a book series... but run far deeper than a peer's
• One close friendship rather than obvious isolation
• Anxiety, exhaustion, or shutdowns after school rather than visible meltdowns during it
• Copying peers' speech, gestures, and interests as a deliberate strategy

Girls are frequently assessed for anxiety or ADHD first, sometimes for years, before anyone considers autism.

If you've had a persistent feeling that something is being missed with your daughter, that instinct is worth pursuing.

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You do not need a diagnosis to start asking questions. 🌱This is the single biggest misconception we encounter, and it co...
09/03/2026

You do not need a diagnosis to start asking questions. 🌱

This is the single biggest misconception we encounter, and it costs families months.

Parents wait for a pediatrician to say a word. Then they wait for a specialist referral. Then they wait for an evaluation appointment. By the time anyone says "autism," a year has passed — a year during which support was available and nobody mentioned it.

In Colorado, families with concerns about a child's development can request an evaluation through the state's early intervention system for children under three, at no cost and without a medical diagnosis. Your concern is enough to start the conversation.

If something feels off, you don't have to be certain to ask. Being early is not the same as being wrong.

Questions about what comes next? Our team can walk you through it. We currently have openings at our Parker, CO location and two of our Colorado Springs Locations, Federal Drive and North Academy.

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Last day of August. You made it. 🎒✨Whatever happened this month- the sleep shifting, the paperwork, the meetings, the dr...
09/01/2026

Last day of August. You made it. 🎒✨

Whatever happened this month- the sleep shifting, the paperwork, the meetings, the drop-offs that went badly, the evenings that fell apart- it's behind you now. The hardest transition of the year is done.

September is where routines actually take hold. It won't be effortless, but it will be more familiar, and familiarity is most of the battle.

Fifteen tips this month, and one idea underneath all of them: predictability is the intervention. Not perfection. Not doing everything right. Just making the next thing knowable.

If this month showed you gaps that structured support could help address, we have fall openings at most of our six Front Range locations in Colorado Springs and Douglas County.

Start with a conversation. We'll take it from there.

Proud of you. See you in September. 💙

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It's National Grief Awareness Day, and there's a kind of grief that comes up in August that people rarely name out loud....
08/30/2026

It's National Grief Awareness Day, and there's a kind of grief that comes up in August that people rarely name out loud. 🕊️

Watching a first-day photo you can't take. Seeing milestones arrive for other families on a schedule yours isn't on. Realizing that a support you counted on has an end date. Sitting with a version of this year you imagined a while back that isn't the one you're living.

That's grief. It doesn't mean you love your child less — it usually means you love them enormously and you're carrying something heavy at the same time.

Both things are allowed to be true. You can be grateful and grieving in the same week, sometimes in the same hour.

If it's sitting heavy, it's worth saying out loud to someone — a partner, a friend, another parent who gets it, a therapist. Naming it takes some of its weight.

You're not alone in this. 💙

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Loosen the weekend. Don't dissolve it. 🗓️After five days of school-week structure, the temptation is to let Saturday and...
08/29/2026

Loosen the weekend. Don't dissolve it. 🗓️

After five days of school-week structure, the temptation is to let Saturday and Sunday run completely free. It feels like a kindness. For many kids it's the opposite — the unpredictability is harder than the structure was, and Monday pays the bill.

A middle path:
• Keep wake-up and bedtime within about an hour of school days
• Keep meals roughly on schedule
• Use a simplified visual schedule — same format, fewer items
• Preview the day in the morning, including anything out of the ordinary
• Leave genuine free time inside a predictable frame

The goal isn't a rigid weekend. It's a weekend your child can anticipate, so Monday morning starts from the same place Friday ended.

Predictability is what makes rest restful.

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Three and a half weeks in. Here's what progress actually looks like. 📊It's rarely the thing families are watching for. P...
08/29/2026

Three and a half weeks in. Here's what progress actually looks like. 📊

It's rarely the thing families are watching for. Progress in month one is usually small, specific, and easy to miss:

• The morning meltdown lasts eight minutes instead of twenty
• Your child walks to the door before stopping, instead of stopping at the car
• They used a word or a sign for something they used to scream about
• They told you one thing about their day, unprompted
• Tuesday was fine — just fine, not remarkable

This is why we take data. Behavior change is slow enough that memory is a poor instrument, and "nothing is working" is often a story about how exhausted you are rather than what the numbers show.

Try writing down three small wins from this week. Then look at it again in October.

Small and steady is what real progress looks like.

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Regulation comes before homework. Every time. 📚A dysregulated brain cannot learn. Pushing through worksheets while your ...
08/28/2026

Regulation comes before homework. Every time. 📚

A dysregulated brain cannot learn. Pushing through worksheets while your child is still coming down from a full school day leads to a fight, a negative association with schoolwork, and very little actual learning.

A workable order of operations:
• Snack and decompression first — no negotiation
• Movement, if that's what your child needs
• Then a short, defined work block with a visible endpoint
• Break the assignment into small pieces with breaks between
• Stop when it stops being productive, even if it's unfinished

And this one matters: it is entirely reasonable to email the teacher and say homework isn't working right now. Homework modifications can be written into an IEP or a 504 plan. Many families don't know that's on the table.

Twenty focused minutes beat ninety miserable ones. Protect the relationship — you need it for the rest of the year.

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Women's Equality Day. 💙In many families we work with, one person is carrying the coordination: the IEP binder, the insur...
08/27/2026

Women's Equality Day. 💙

In many families we work with, one person is carrying the coordination: the IEP binder, the insurance calls, the appointment calendar, the school emails, the medication schedule, the fight for every accommodation. Statistically, that person is usually a mother, and it's usually invisible labor that costs careers, income, and health.

It's also true of this field. ABA is overwhelmingly staffed by women, BCBAs, RBTs, and clinic directors doing skilled clinical work that's frequently mischaracterized as caretaking.

CBLG is owned and led by women. That's not incidental to how we practice.

To the mothers who became case managers, advocates, and behavior specialists because no one else was going to: the work is seen. It counts. And you shouldn't have to do all of it alone.

Thank you.

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