In-Home ABA Therapy in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Believing is Achieving serves Glen Ellyn with ABA therapy delivered entirely in the family home. There is no center, no waitlist, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst owns the practice, and parents help select the therapist.
A village of about 28,800, one home at a time
Glen Ellyn is walkable in places and wooded in others, and its households range from apartments near the train to older houses on hilly streets. What they share is that the hard parts of a child's day happen inside them. Our clinicians work there rather than asking a family to reproduce those moments in an unfamiliar room.
The village also gives us useful places to generalize a skill once it is steady at home. Lake Ellyn and Lake Ellyn Park sit near the middle of town with a clear boundary, which makes a first outing easier to structure. The Illinois Prairie Path runs straight through, so a walk can be as short or long as a child can manage. Stacy's Tavern, a historic site dating to 1846, is a brief and quiet visit. The College of DuPage main campus brings a different kind of foot traffic to the area entirely.
For everyday practice, the Glen Ellyn Park District has been running since 1919 and maintains 30 parks along with Sunset Pool and the Ackerman Sports and Fitness Center. The Glen Ellyn Public Library gives families an indoor destination with predictable expectations, which is exactly what a child learning to wait needs.
Two elementary districts, one high school district
A Glen Ellyn child attends either Glen Ellyn School District 41 or Community Consolidated School District 89 through eighth grade, and then everyone converges on Glenbard Township High School District 87. The name is a blend of Glen Ellyn and Lombard, the two villages that formed it, which is a small piece of local history most parents never hear.
The practical consequence is that support your child has had since kindergarten is administered by one board, and their high school support by another. Glenbard West High School may be minutes from your house, but the people responsible for the IEP change entirely at ninth grade. We help families prepare for that rather than discover it: going through the current plan, flagging what needs to be carried forward in writing, and joining the meeting in person. Our IEP and school collaboration page describes it fully.
The case for care at home
Behavior is tied to setting. Teaching in the setting where the behavior happens is the reason we chose a home-only model and never opened a center.
Alongside it: the practice is owned and directed by a BCBA, there is nothing to queue for, and you decide who comes into your home.
Services available in Glen Ellyn
- In-home ABA therapy
- Parent and caregiver coaching
- School collaboration and IEP support
- Behavior support
Insurance for Glen Ellyn families
We are contracted in-network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum. Illinois requires state-regulated plans to cover autism diagnosis and treatment, and a 2022 amendment closed the door on denying a covered service because it is provided at home. Terms differ from policy to policy, so we check your benefits before you agree to anything. Start on the insurance page.
Nearby communities we also serve
Just down the road we also serve Wheaton, Lombard, Carol Stream, and Warrenville.
Questions from Glen Ellyn parents
Which districts serve children in Glen Ellyn?
Glen Ellyn School District 41 and Community Consolidated School District 89 both serve parts of the village for the elementary and middle school years, and neither runs a high school. High school students attend Glenbard Township High School District 87, which operates Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn.
Where do sessions take place in Glen Ellyn?
In your home, always. A therapist travels to your address on a schedule you set, and we do not ask families to come to us because we do not operate a center anywhere in DuPage County.
Our child is not yet in school. Is it too early to start?
No. We work with young children whose routines revolve entirely around the house, and a lot of early goals are ordinary domestic ones — asking for a snack, tolerating a diaper change, playing near a sibling. Call us and we will talk through where your child is.