Who We Help

Individuals With Autism

Empowering Children with Autism for Social and Academic Success

Are you searching for specialized support for your child with autism? Many parents struggle to find educational programs that genuinely “get” their child’s needs, leading to frustration and missed opportunities. Our autism center offers tailored solutions to help your child thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. With our autism programs, we focus on developing essential social communication skills, promoting independence, and unlocking your student’s full potential. Let us be your trusted autism learning partners on this journey.

Autism Services
Autism Services
Autism Services
Autism Services

Our Services for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Social Skills Training

Our 14-week Social Learning Program is specifically designed for children, teens, and young adults with autism who struggle with social interactions. We focus on:

  • Recognizing social patterns and cues
  • Learning conversational and friendship building skills
  • Developing flexible thinking and perspective-taking
  • Building emotional security and self-confidence
  • Practicing appropriate social behaviors in various settings

Executive Function Coaching

Our executive function coaching helps individuals with autism develop crucial skills for success in school and daily life. We focus on:

  • Emotional control: Managing thoughts and emotions to achieve goals
  • Understanding and following instructions
  • Time management and organization
  • Task initiation and completion

Academic Tutoring

Our academic tutoring services are designed to help autistic learners achieve their educational goals. We offer:

  • Personalized learning plans tailored to your child’s strengths and challenges
  • Strategies for assignment completion and time management
  • Skill-building in core subjects, focusing on areas of difficulty
  • Techniques to enhance focus and engagement in learning

Brain Training

Our brain training programs target cognitive skills essential for individuals with autism to thrive in academic and daily life settings. We work on:

  • Improving working memory capacity
  • Enhancing attention and focus
  • Developing impulse control
  • Boosting processing speed and cognitive flexibility

Why Choose Frankenberger Associates?

At Frankenberger Associates, we don’t just focus on a diagnosis—we focus on the individual. Our team provides personalized coaching and support that helps people with autism build real-world social, communication, and executive function skills. Every approach is customized to meet the unique strengths and needs of each client.

Trusted by Genius People

Frankenberger Associates has had the privilege of helping thousands of families, schools, and students transform their learning experience.

I cannot speak more highly of their programming. I am both a mental health professional and mom of an ASD kiddo. It is expensive, but it is money well spent. Additionally, the overall cost is comparable to what you would spend in an average market for a therapist who does private pay. We are hoping to continue on with their services after our 14-week program is over. As a mom, I highly recommend this because of the growth I’ve seen in my son and the tools I’ve gained. As a professional, I have no qualms about referring folks to them.

Jennifer, Parent

The workshops that Frankenberger Associates have provided to our entire faculty and individual teachers has strengthened the professional skills and knowledge of the educators at Woodhall. Connecting theory and practice with an appealing mix of lucidity and common sense, Caryl and her colleagues engaged with our school community in a way that is accessible and applicable.

Matthew Woodhall, Head of School, Woodhall School

Frankenberger Associates truly understands the way children interact in the real world. This gives them a unique ability to help children for whom social interactions are difficult. In less than one year of weekly sessions, my child has gained a wealth of knowledge about social skills and behavior and new insight into his own and his peers' situations. He has learned, among many things, to "read a room," to slip in and out of conversation easily, how to ask questions and keep a conversation moving along, how to advocate for himself with others, and how to make and keep friends....

Kiera, Parent

I loved this course and wish everyone at Middlebridge could take it. For folks entering into the profession or looking to have an update on learning challenges, the videos and supplementary readings were on point. I loved the processing speed and working memory videos as so often people do not realize how this impacts the learner. The EF video was excellent and tangible as was the strategies for teachers. It is very rare when you have a PD with actual strategies offered. I loved the evaluation section and questions to be posed by admissions professionals and teachers in the classroom...

Sara Callahan, Academic Dean, Middlebridge School

My student, while a relatively new client of Frankenberger Associates, is already finding work with his coach to be helpful and effective.

Joan Wittan, College Consulting Collaborative

The combination of brain training and executive functioning support that Frankenberger Associates and Oxford Academy have collaborated on over the years has always been a resounding success. Caryl and her team are experts in helping students see major improvements in focus, organization, and memory, making daily tasks and long-term goals feel so much more manageable. I can’t recommend them enough for anyone wanting to strengthen cognitive skills and executive functioning!

Phil Cocchiola, Head of School, Oxford Academy

Thank you so much for setting my husband up with such a fantastic coach! I have observed his organization, task initiation, and vulnerability increase exponentially. The classes have been so helpful, and he told me tonight that he will be signing up for more sessions. He is starting a new job and wants to make sure he does not fall into the same habits that have hindered his success before.

Spouse

I loved this course and wish everyone at Middlebridge could take it. For folks entering into the profession or looking to have an update on learning challenges the videos and supplementary readings were on point. I loved the processing speed and working memory videos as so often people do not realize how this impacts the learner. The EF video was excellent and tangible as was the strategies for teachers. It is very rare when you have PD with actual strategies offered. I loved the evaluation section, and the questions to be posed by admissions professionals and teachers in the classroom...

Sara Callahan, Academic Dean, Middlebridge School

My experience with my coach and executive function coaching as a whole has been life changing. Coaching has altered various facets of my daily life, from my morning routine to strategies aiding productivity at school, and a much needed introduction to self-care practices like yoga and meditation. Further, my coach has opened my eyes to the world where negativity does not rule my life. I am now able to recognize my thoughts and actions and reframe them into a more positive outlook. With the guidance of my coach, I have been actively combatting my dependency on extra stimuli that my...

Student

Understanding Diverse Learning Profiles is a wonderful study of student learning profiles, misconceptions, types of assessments to determine how students learn, reading psychoeducational testing reports, and classroom supports. It is a course that brings together the needs and perspectives of the admission team, classroom educators, and learning support professionals to create a stronger student success model. As a veteran admission professional, it provided me with insight to better understand the needs of our applicants and students. I am much more confident in my ability to read and understand testing reports and how a learning profile may present in the classroom....

Dawn Hopke, Associate Director of Enrollment Management, Flint Hill School