Wisconsin Early Autism Project reviews

This company will be audited. Beware clinicians with licenses and state certificates: Do not sign off on work or hours you did not render or conduct despite the insistence or harassment by your leadership or clinic directors (some of whom don’t even have licenses to practice). This company (LEARN Behavioral & its subsidiaries, including WEAP) render services by minimally trained “therapists” or “techs” that maybe have the states’s requirements of 40 hours of training. Yet, they bill at the highest level possible (often for PhD’s who aren’t involved in rendering services or even providing any supervision whatsoever). This company exploits families with children who have disabilities. This company also exploits those minimally trained techs (high school usually with less than 40 hours of ABA training to work with some of the most developmentally challenged kids and vulnerable families. Over billing for services NOT rendered. During the pandemic, this company maximized on “Telehealth” services to vulnerable families, billing for kids with minimal attention watching UTube type videos (with no therapist present) -billing these hours to Medicaid & insurance as “individual therapy” when neither a therapist was present to work with the child nor any therapy was rendered. ANY PROFESSIONAL with a STATE LICENSE (who values their license and profession) would look and go elsewhere. Amateur management (at WEAP - puppets) to the larger, unethical organization, Learn Behavioral (another subsidiary of the parent company, Austin Spectrum Companies of Delaware - a company investigated by Dept of Labor and IRS). Beware & look elsewhere if you value working with a vulnerable population or your education& license.

Management unfortunately does not have the background to be running the operational side of a company. Having heavy clinical experience, they do their best to make decisions that are beneficial to the company, however, their choices typically end up creating a negative impact in various departments. In addition to the lack of management training and structure, from the bottom/entry level positions to management there is little to no appreciation. After multiple encounters with the owners and upper management, it was very clear that every person is replaceable, and had not only been told that but had heard others being told that. There had been a high level of conduct from the CEO during my time that showed me that as much as I loved the field and many of my co-workers, that each day offered the possibility of harassment and mistreatment. WEAP as a whole offers much opportunity, especially for college students, but for a career it requires high levels of work and overtime, with unacceptable behavior and treatment. In terms of offering treatment to clients, WEAP has incredible clinicians. The clinicians that work at WEAP have incredible potential, however, are limited in what they are capable of doing because of the management. Knowing many clinicians in the field, I have personally seen individuals flourish and grow after leaving WEAP and joining other organizations, while being given better compensation, benefits, and a better work/life balance.