Sunbird ABA team in Summit County — serving you
ABA therapy in Summit County, Colorado: autism therapy for kids, at home or daycare
Our team comes to families across Summit County — home to about 30,857 people and 5,064 children, from Breckenridge to the smallest town — with one-on-one, BCBA-led ABA therapy at home or daycare. Our team inSummit County is serving every community in the county, listed below.
Autism services in Summit County at a glance
The numbers that shape how ABA therapy works here, from public data.
- Residents
- 30,857
- Children under 18
- 5,064
- Children under 5
- 1,102
- Kids likely on the spectrum (CDC 1-in-31 estimate)
- ≈ 160
- Kids under 6 with every parent working
- 73%
- Homes with broadband (telehealth-ready)
- 97%
- Kids covered only by a public plan
- 22%
- Kids with no health coverage
- 2.8%
- Median household income
- $106,255
- County seat
- Breckenridge
- Land area
- 608 sq mi
- Communities with a page
- 8
- Public school districts
- 1
- Your Sunbird team in Summit 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 Summit 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 Silverthorne | 4,657 | 795 | 80498 |
| ABA therapy in Breckenridge | 5,001 | 1,004 | 80424 |
| ABA therapy in Frisco | 2,865 | 287 | 80443 |
| ABA therapy in Keystoneunincorporated | 1,111 | 37 | 80435 |
| ABA therapy in Dillon | 933 | 84 | 80435 |
| ABA therapy in Blue River | 1,145 | 242 | 80424 |
| ABA therapy in Copper Mountainunincorporated | 321 | 0 | 80443 |
| ABA therapy in Montezuma | 83 | 18 | 80435 |
Smaller places, too: we also serve families in Heeney — no community is too small for in-home visits and telehealth.
What ABA therapy looks like across Summit County
Summit County has about 30,857 people across 608 square miles — roughly 51 people per square mile, mostly in its towns with farmland and open country in between. Families here are used to driving for specialists; with in-home ABA, the drive is ours. The county seat is Breckenridge.
When you call from Summit 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 Summit County
Summit County is home to about 5,100 kids under 18 — about 1,100 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 163 children across Summit 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 Summit County
About 73% of children under 6 across Summit 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 97% of households across Summit County have broadband, so telehealth is easy here: BCBA check-ins and parent coaching by video, on top of in-person sessions — never as a substitute for them.
ABA therapy, schools and IEPs in Summit County
Public schools across Summit County are run by one district: Summit School District No. Re 1 (about 3,600 students across 9 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 Summit County
The biggest communities in Summit County are Breckenridge (5,001 people), Silverthorne (4,657 people), Frisco (2,865 people), and Blue River (1,145 people). Together they hold about 46% of the county's children — the rest live in smaller towns and out in the county, where in-home visits matter most.
Summit County borders Eagle County, Park County, Grand County, Clear Creek County, and Lake 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 Summit County
Families across Summit County pay for care in different ways. Census figures show that across Summit County, about 22% of children are covered only by Medicaid or another public plan, and about 2.8% 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 Summit County, step by step
What happens after you call? Five steps, no surprises — and the getting-started page has the long version.
- Call or send the short form — include your ZIP code (80424, 80435, 80443, 80498 are in Summit 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 Summit County. A BCBA from the team that serves Summit 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 Summit County
In-home ABA therapy, daycare-based support and telehealth are available to families in every one of these ZIP codes:
- 80424
- 80435
- 80443
- 80498
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 Summit 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 Summit County: questions parents ask
Does insurance cover ABA therapy across Summit County?
Do you have an ABA team in Summit County?
My child doesn't have a diagnosis yet. Can we still start from Summit County?
How many children across Summit County might be autistic?
Which school districts are in Summit County?
What ZIP codes do you serve across Summit County?
Is telehealth ABA realistic across Summit County?
Do you also serve towns near Summit County?
How fast can we start across Summit County?
Find an ABA therapist in Summit 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.
ABA therapy in neighboring counties
Straight-line distance between county centers.
ABA therapy around Lakewood
Summit County is part of the area our Lakewood team covers. More on what that team offers:
School districts in Summit County
Every school in the district, the neighborhoods it serves, and how home ABA works with your child’s IEP.
Ready to talk about your child?
Families across Summit County and the rest of Colorado start with one short call. Yours can too.