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.

This 6-module online course is the best training I have ever participated in. As an IEC who provides high school and college consulting for students who have specific learning, cognitive and/or developmental challenges, the course deepened my understanding of learning challenges, and my ability to read and interpret evaluations. I developed new questioning techniques to discern my students’ learning strengths, average abilities, and challenges, and I watched the videos and read the supplemental articles on my own timeline, there was no pressure. Quite simply, this course was a game changer for me, and I think it will be the same...

Amy Brown, M.Ed., IEC - Educational Transitions Consulting

My daughter has struggled socially her entire life. The PEERS program offered at Frankenberger Associates has enabled her to grow not only her social competency skills but also her self confidence and self worth. She had attended social skill groups throughout her entire educational career and a few other private groups and really developed a distaste for them. She was reticent to attend PEERS due past group experiences, but literally after the initial session, was excited to go back and play an active role in growing her skills. The wonderful staff at Frankenberger Associates related to her in a practical, useful...

Jacquelyn, 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 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

Eagle Hill School and I personally have worked with Frankenberger Associates for over twenty years, and I have enjoyed and benefited greatly from our incredibly long and strong relationship. Caryl Frankenberger is a trusted and knowledgeable colleague and friend. Many years ago, Caryl gave a presentation to the EHS faculty on cognitive testing, and to this day, I am grateful to Caryl for this presentation. I have worked with Caryl and have likely read more than 100 of her evaluations in considering her clients for EHS. Caryl’s evaluations are well-written and help the reader to get...

Dana Harbert, Director of Admissions – Eagle Hill School

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 wish I found this Social Skills program earlier, but my son and I are both so grateful to be here now. Everyone at Frankenberger Associates has been completely amazing! Their process of utilizing real life actionable teaching has been life changing. There truly is nothing more rewarding than seeing your child “understand” the value of friendships and having the tools to help him utilize them in real tangible step by step guides. I would highly recommend them to anyone!

Traci, Parent

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

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

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