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 am so happy I took the 6 module Understanding Diverse Learning Profile course. I am an Executive Assistant working at Frankenberger Associates and I wanted to take the course to better understand FA’s services. The course was outstanding. From the perspective of someone who is a parent, and not an educator, I gained an enormous amount of knowledge about executive functioning, social skills, evaluation and brain training. I learned about the intricacies of understanding student learning profiles and I loved the videos about working memory, processing speed, ADHD and Dyslexia. Learning about the brain was fascinating and I left...

Jane Frankenberger, Frankenberger Associates

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'm so glad I took the Understanding Diverse Learning Profiles course. It introduced some ideas that were new to me, and also brought clarity and cohesion to ideas that I had picked up along the way, but didn’t have a context for. I gained greater fluency in the concepts and terminology that my colleagues in learning support use routinely, so I’m now better prepared to engage in meaningful conversation with them about how our school supports students. The readings and videos were varied and thought-provoking, and the regular meetings with the cohort and the instructors were helpful, motivating, and fun! The...

Becky Amis, Director of Admissions, St. Edmunds Academy

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

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

All seems to be progressing well, small changes leading to better overall functioning, less anxiety and more productivity are the goals being addressed. Looking forward to continued improvement.

Parent

My child received a 5 on her AP Gov’t exam! She is beyond excited and so am I. It’s been a journey and you were instrumental in getting her through that class. Your services have been invaluable!

Parent of a High School Graduate

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

I have had the pleasure of learning from Caryl Frankenberger for almost fifteen years, witnessing firsthand her expertise and unwavering commitment to neurodiverse learners. Caryl has the ability to make complex concepts about learning and cognitive development accessible—a skill I first observed in 2010 during one of her presentations, where she captivated a packed auditorium of educators with ease. Her work has left a lasting impact on me and countless others, empowering students, families, and professionals with the tools and understanding they need to thrive in their strengths.

Aria Carter, Director of Admissions, Greenwood School

The organized and thoughtful approach to Tailored Academic Tutoring through Executive Function Coaching at Frankenberger Associates has truly transformed my son’s academic performance. As a parent, I appreciate how they have built trust with me through open communication and with my son who feels supported and confident under their guidance.

Parent