
A Special Education Teacher, Administrator and Lawyer walk into a bar....all you ever wanted to know about special education
Hosted by Abby and Robin and Angela · Robin Fabiano, Abigail Hanscom, Angela Smagula
4.8from 71 ratings
- 171
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 71
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About A Special Education Teacher, Administrator and Lawyer walk into a bar....all you ever wanted to know about special education
In this podcast, we hope to share information, lessons learned, interviews with VIPs in the field of special education. Join Robin Fabiano, Abby Hanscom and Angela Smagula as they bring diverse viewpoints and some humor to an otherwise serious topic.
- Publisher
- Robin Fabiano, Abigail Hanscom, Angela Smagula
- Category
- education · kids & family · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Feb 2021
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
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Has Private Equity Taken over ABA?

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Has Private Equity Taken over ABA?
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Why isn't all autism service reimbursement going up? Why is it just this one little pocket of service? And it turned out that across three states that were audited recently, there appeared to be a very statistically abnormal amount of claiming in Medicaid for ABA hours for students. And that raised further questions about has the ABA industry somehow shifted and become corporatized in some way where maybe the recommendations for services are drifting away from what kids need to what a bottom line or a balance sheet needs. And I think that's interesting. I think that is interesting. And so and also like this this concept of like private equity investing in like ABA industry. based companies like outside of school, though, like private ABA services done not within the school system, but almost like tutoring. […]
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Abby and Robin and Angela host the show. Published by Robin Fabiano, Abigail Hanscom, Angela Smagula.
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