Sunbird ABA team in Phillips County — serving you
ABA therapy in Phillips County, Colorado: autism therapy for kids, at home or daycare
Our team comes to families across Phillips County — home to about 4,491 people and 1,168 children, from Holyoke to the smallest town — with one-on-one, BCBA-led ABA therapy at home or daycare. Our team inPhillips County is serving every community in the county, listed below.
Autism services in Phillips County at a glance
The numbers that shape how ABA therapy works here, from public data.
- Residents
- 4,491
- Children under 18
- 1,168
- Children under 5
- 351
- Kids likely on the spectrum (CDC 1-in-31 estimate)
- ≈ 40
- Kids under 6 with every parent working
- 74%
- Homes with broadband (telehealth-ready)
- 82%
- Kids covered only by a public plan
- 39%
- Kids with no health coverage
- 2%
- Median household income
- $60,372
- County seat
- Holyoke
- Land area
- 688 sq mi
- Communities with a page
- 3
- Public school districts
- 2
- Your Sunbird team in Phillips County
- Serving you
- Sunbird services here
- Home · Daycare · Video
Sources: Census ACS 2023 5-year estimates; Census ZIP-code relationship files; NCES school-district data. The autism figure applies the CDC’s 1-in-31 estimate — a planning number, not a count. Miles are straight-line.
ABA therapy in every Phillips County community
Each community below has its own page with local numbers, schools, ZIP codes and nearby towns. Our team serves every one of them.
| Community | Residents | Kids under 18 | ZIP codes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABA therapy in Holyoke | 2,378 | 614 | 80734 |
| ABA therapy in Haxtun | 957 | 228 | 80731 |
| ABA therapy in Paoli | 65 | 13 | 80731, 80746 |
Smaller places, too: we also serve families in Amherst — no community is too small for in-home visits and telehealth.
What ABA therapy looks like across Phillips County
Phillips County is rural: about 4,491 people across 688 square miles, or roughly 7 people per square mile. Specialty care for kids has traditionally meant long drives out of the county. Our model is built the other way around — therapy comes to your home, and your BCBA stays in touch by video between visits. The county seat is Holyoke.
When you call from Phillips County, you're matched with our team that serves your area. They come to your home or daycare, and your BCBA checks in by video between sessions.
A typical plan starts with a BCBA assessment at home, then regular one-on-one sessions with an ABA therapist — a trained behavior technician — working from goals your BCBA wrote for your child. You are part of it, too: parent training is built in, because the skills have to work at dinner time, not just during a session. Curious who does what? See who is on your child's team.
Autism therapy for kids and families in Phillips County
Phillips County is home to about 1,200 kids under 18 — about 350 of them younger than 5 — according to the Census Bureau's latest five-year estimates. The CDC estimates that about 1 in 31 children is autistic. Applied here, that is roughly 38 children across Phillips County who may be on the spectrum — many of them not yet diagnosed.
Earlier is easier. If your toddler isn't pointing, answering to their name, or using words the way other kids their age do, it is worth a look now rather than later. Our guides walk through signs of autism at 18 months, at age 2 and at age 3, plus the M-CHAT screening many pediatricians use.
School-age kids benefit too — ABA can target the things that make the school day and evenings hard: transitions, communication, self-care, and handling frustration. Read how ABA and speech therapy work together, and our honest take on whether ABA is harmful.
In-home, daycare or telehealth ABA in Phillips County
About 74% of children under 6 across Phillips County live in homes where every parent works. For a lot of families here, the hours that matter are daycare hours — so we offer daycare-based ABA support, where your child's ABA therapist works alongside the daycare routine, plus in-home sessions for evenings and the skills that belong at home.
About 82% of households across Phillips County have broadband — most, but not all. If video works at your house, telehealth adds BCBA time between visits. If it doesn't, tell us; we'll plan around your connection instead of the other way around.
ABA therapy, schools and IEPs in Phillips County
Phillips County has 2 public school districts. The largest are Holyoke School District No. Re-1J (about 552 students across 3 schools) and Haxtun School District No. Re-2J (about 334 students across 2 schools).
If your child has an IEP (or an IFSP for little ones), share it with your BCBA. When home goals and school goals line up, kids make progress faster and get less mixed messaging. Bring the latest evaluation reports to your first meeting, too — they save time and repeat testing.
Communities across Phillips County
The biggest communities in Phillips County are Holyoke (2,378 people), Haxtun (957 people), and Paoli (65 people). Together they hold about 73% of the county's children — the rest live in smaller towns and out in the county, where in-home visits matter most.
Phillips County borders Logan County, Yuma County, Sedgwick County, Weld County, and Morgan County. Families near a county line are often closer to a town on the other side — that's fine; we serve both.
Paying for ABA therapy across Phillips County
Families across Phillips County pay for care in different ways. Census figures show that across Phillips County, about 39% of children are covered only by Medicaid or another public plan, and about 2% have no coverage at all — the rest mostly have insurance through a parent's job or a plan they bought.
Whatever card is in your wallet, the first step is the same: send us a photo and we check your ABA benefits directly with your plan — free. You get a plain-English answer about what's covered and what you'd owe, usually within a business day. Most Colorado families pay little or nothing once benefits are confirmed.
More detail: paying for ABA therapy, our insurance page, and will insurance pay for ABA?
How to start ABA therapy in Phillips County, step by step
From first call to first session, here's the path for Phillips County families. (More detail on our getting-started page.)
- Call or send the short form — include your ZIP code (80721, 80731, 80734, 80746 are in Phillips County). A real person — not a phone tree — calls back, usually the same business day.
- We check your insurance — free. One photo of your card is all we need to confirm your ABA benefits and tell you what you'd owe.
- Diagnosis in hand — or not yet. If you still need an evaluation, we'll help you book one. If you have the report, here are the first steps after a diagnosis.
- BCBA assessment at your home in Phillips County. A BCBA from the team that serves Phillips County meets your child where they're most comfortable and writes goals with you.
- Therapy starts. Your child's ABA therapist begins one-on-one sessions at home or daycare, and you get parent coaching along the way. Read how to prepare for session one.
ABA therapy by ZIP code in Phillips County
In-home ABA therapy, daycare-based support and telehealth are available to families in every one of these ZIP codes:
- 80721
- 80731
- 80734
- 80746
No diagnosis yet? Start there — we’ll help.
Lots of families reach out before any evaluation — that is a fine place to start, wherever you are in Phillips County. We’ll help you understand the signs, book a diagnostic evaluation in Colorado, and line up coverage so therapy can start as soon as the diagnosis is in hand.
ABA therapy in Phillips County: questions parents ask
Does insurance cover ABA therapy across Phillips County?
Do you have an ABA team in Phillips County?
My child doesn't have a diagnosis yet. Can we still start from Phillips County?
How many children across Phillips County might be autistic?
Which school districts are in Phillips County?
What ZIP codes do you serve across Phillips County?
Is telehealth ABA realistic across Phillips County?
Do you also serve towns near Phillips County?
How fast can we start across Phillips County?
Find an ABA therapist in Phillips County: one short call
Tell us where you are and what you’re seeing. An intake advocate calls back — usually the same business day — with your coverage answer and an honest start timeline for your part of Colorado.
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