Aspire Early Intervention

I was studying a masters in education and the time and decided to do the ABA workshop in the break. My father was suspicious about the ABA workshop as they were very pushy about the payment and their lack of organisation - and he was right. They didn’t provide me with the full training. Money and time were wasted with this organisation.

EDIT: It wasn’t employment, it was a training workshop. I was living in Newcastle at the time which would have made it impossible to work in Sydney anyway. And the workshop wasn’t free, it was $200 which wasn’t even refunded. The company is misleading and deceptive.

Sumit Behl was so unprofessionalist she don't know how to behave with people. In my 8 years experience, I saw the first rude interviewer. I think she should get training and education first how to be a kind human being rather than judging anyone.

Aspire was a place that gave me many false promises. In the first meeting you are sold the idea that you will have the perfect child if only you commit to their program. So I did!

It was extremely stressful. I didn't enjoy the courses and much of it was pretty much common sense. I.e. Ignore the bad behaviour and reward the good. Their services sucked all of my energy and NDIS funding. The one-on-one sessions didnt seem any different from a speech therapy session. Aspire puts most if the focus on the parents " If you do more your child will achieve more "! They lack the compassion that parents are already stressed and exhausted. As parents we are already trying our best and more and when we take our children to therapy we expect you to provide them with THERAPY! Not to give us more work.

Parents that have children on the spectrum are SUPERHEROES! The best therapist for your child is YOU! Save your NDIS funding for Speech and OT!

Aspire were a great help to us when we needed it for our two autistic sons, they taught us ABA. During a level 3 autism diagnosis for our second son, the doctors informed us that we didn't realise how much help we were naturally giving our son using ABA by habit now. Combined with diet and other treatments, his diagnosis is currently half of what it was by the ATEC measure.

Dianne and Liz deserve way more credit than what has been posted. How are they supposed to help anyone else if they have this constant barrage of online attacks discouraging them? Aspire are a professional ABA organisation that has copped it online so badly that I don't know how they deal with it. These negative reviews about funding are actually what we have experienced EVERYWHERE! WITH EVERY SERVICE PROVIDER! All they all want to know, is how much funding you have available and with some really poor services to top it off, unlike Aspire. The fact that people have shed light on it specifically at Aspire, makes parents look for it and jump on the band wagon too, missing the opportunity to focus on learning ABA effectively with Aspire to help their kid, instead focusing on attacking the few people in Sydney that are actually capable of helping your kid!

There are some really poor services out there in Sydney, but this is definitely not one of them!

I came to this clinic to do an ABA therapist training course. I spoke with a therapist from Aspire who told me about the training and how they use Skinner’s Behavioural approach when they work with children, and so on. She then provided me with an invoice and a cheque was sent over to cover their weekend ABA training course. Next thing, the staff did not provide me with the full training that I paid for. They took my money and and completely cut all communication with me. You would think that the staff who are trained psychologists who have some level of ethnics and morale, but they have absolute none - they just want money in their pockets.

Ignore Jake Spicer's review below - he's a therapist as Aspire and just giving a biased point of view. The fact he’s trashing an ex-client which shows how unprofessional they are. Definitely not recommended.

Awful centre. Therapists and supervisors try their best but are very inexperienced and not given training, meaning the therapy is not good quality. But the price is huge, so unethical. The worst part is the manager Dianne is an absolute bully. Overall the company is very unorganised and if you started therapy here and lasted more than a couple months I would be surprised. Don’t waste your money.

Very unprofessional and dodgy team. Our valuable time in early intervention was completed wasted!

The director Dianne is so rude. She does not have any decent upbringing. The therapists were so inexperienced and not helpful at all!

We agree with another review that this is a place that cares about money much more than your child. This is likely due to significant flaws in the management of this clinic - the business owner (who is profit-driven) and the clinical director (who's supposed to be therapy-outcome-driven) is the same person. So it happened frequently that this person is taking pretty much the first role when she's doing her second role.

If you search for other larger ABA provider, you will find that the owner of the business and the clinical director is NEVER the same person!

And please - employees of Aspires - remove your "5-star reviews" here. Not matter how much you want to suck up to your boss, your sucking-up-style reviews will only mean the absolute negative to review readers.

Our experience with this ABA provider is very negative. The girls (Co-SP/SBT/BTs) in the team that was assigned to us do not talk to each other at all! They do not communicate even via emails. Then you will need to wait for a month for a team meeting for them to meet each other, which then runs over time for discussing things that should have been communicated one month ago! And the management Dianne thinks it is normal in Aspire and does not think this is a problem - okay, maybe she will consider it as a problem when it is her own child that is receiving the therapy!
We decided to move to another larger ABA provider, and communication among team members over there are never a problem at all and the effectiveness of the team work is significantly better! So happy that we decided to leave Aspire early.

Terrible management. The therapists never reply emails and never returns my wife's calls.
The only person who will return your calls is the person that sends your all the bills!

Although we didn't like Aspire's services to our grandson, I did not want to write down this review until I realised that Aspire is apparently asking its own employees to put in 5-star ratings here.

This is outrageous.

No one can give unbiased reviews (especially public reviews using real names) to his/her own employer who pays him/her wages. That is the very basic ABCs of conflict of interests. Unfortunately, Aspire does not understand these basic ABCs.

Employees of Aspire - behave yourselves. Delete your over-rated reviews and leave here!

EDIT: As mentioned in another review I now work for Aspire. When I posted this review I was working at another centre in Melbourne. After completing training at Aspire I was so impressed I moved from Melbourne to Sydney specifically to work for Dianne and Aspire.
While this review now certainly contains a conflict of interest I will be keeping the review online for transparency, and also as my comments are still reflect my thoughts before I came to work here.

Dianne and her staff at Aspire Early Intervention provide some of the highest quality ABA therapy in Australia. They provide experience, comprehensive, and best practice therapy to help children reach their full potential.

As an ABA Therapist working at another centre, I have done training with Aspire and Dianne, and can vouch first hand for their technical expertise, high quality therapy, and the wonderful staff that work one on one with the children.

Reading another review here saying that Dianne is only after funding money is shocking and bewildering. This 100% does not match with my interactions with her. I have witnessed Dianne passionately battle for families, talk at great length about the impact ABA can have on children and adults, and can confidently say that she is one of the leaders for increasing the quality of ABA in Australia.

Poor ABA skills. They don't do any planning or goal settings with you.
And even poorer customer service attitude. You don't feel like they care about your child.

Aspire's ABA program is pretty much over-the-shelf from another commercial provider. They do not know how to customise a program for our child. But the owner of this clinic does know quite some tricks to suck money out of your pocket - stay away from Aspire Early Intervention.

I came to this clinic to do an ABA therapist training course. I spoke with a therapist from Aspire who told me about the training and how they use Skinner’s Behavioural approach when they work with children, and so on. She then provided me with an invoice and a cheque was sent over to cover their weekend ABA training course. Next thing, the staff ignored all contact with me and did not provide me with the full training that I paid for. They just simply took my money and and completely cut all communication with me. When I also shared my experience with them on social media, I was harassed by Aspire staff members and accused of being a liar - even though I still have a copy of all the written communication about the course from Aspire’s staff still with me.

Ignore Jake Spicer's review below - he's a therapist as Aspire and just giving a biased point of view. The fact he’s trashing an ex-client which shows how unprofessional they are. Definitely not recommended.

My daughter started at aspire a little over than a year ago. She was no verbal and had no eye contact. She was two and half years old and developmentally she was the a 6 to 9 month old level. I had tried the traditional therapies speech and o/t for 6 months prior to starting at aspire with no success. One year on and my daughter is now verbal and maintains eye contact. She will be attending mainstream preschool in the new year. As I write this and think about where my daughter was last year and where she is now I have tears in eyes because of my wonderful dedicated team they have brought my daughter back to us. I believe in order to succeed at what you do you need to love what you do and Dianne, Shelby, Peter, Banu and Jacob prove that to me everyday. At aspire you are family not just a number or pay check. My family and I are forever great full to everyone at aspire.

Aspire Early Intervention is an amazing place! The knowledgeable and friendly staff welcomed me and pushed me to be an excellent practitioner. The environment was both supportive and challenging. Dianne has high expectations for her staff. She ensures that the right therapists are paired properly on program teams to meet the needs of each family. Although this company continues to grow, I like how they maintain a personal touch. I reference their work as a standard for this industry. I know that I am a better therapist from having the opportunity to work there.

Very recommended. I would suggest to give them a call. I was so impressed from how all the staff was so helpful and kind.

Aspire is a professionally run organisation. The staff are amazing, accomodating and deeply compassionate toward their clients. Charges are well justified, reasonable and the director Dianne makes sure that parents have the support they crave, for the wellbeing of their children with special needs.

Thank you Aspire for taking care of us!