A field this important deserves a public record this clear.
The Ethics Standards Board for ABA Providers is an independent transparency initiative for the autism-services ecosystem — built by Special Learning, free to everyone it serves.
2018: a watchlist becomes a wayfinder
ESBAP began in 2018 with a simple observation and an uncomfortable one. The simple observation: families searching for autism services had no way to compare providers — no shared record of who was registered, who was accredited, who owned whom. The uncomfortable one: the information existed. It was just scattered across federal registries, accreditation rosters, corporate filings, and databases no parent should have to learn to read.
The founding team, working from Special Learning's decade of work in the autism community, started assembling that record — first as an internal research effort, and now as this public directory: 8,553 organizations, 12,250 locations, and 59,376 board-certified behavior analysts indexed from public sources and refreshed continuously.
Along the way, the field changed under everyone's feet. Private-equity firms acquired hundreds of ABA companies, consolidation accelerated, and the distance between who runs a clinic and who owns it grew wider than most families ever learn. That made the founding idea more urgent, not less: transparency of information, free at the point of need, for every stakeholder in the ecosystem.
Four commitments we don't bend
- Independence is the product. We never take advertising money for enhanced listings, and placement in results is never for sale. The moment a directory sells position, it stops being information.
- Everyone gets listed, free. A paid-inclusion directory shows you only the providers willing to pay — which is a different, smaller universe than the truth. Every organization we can find in public sources is profiled at no cost, and stays profiled.
- Evidence over opinion. Standing bands are built from published, verifiable records — federal registration, exclusion screening, independent accreditation — through a method published in full. We surface the record; we don't editorialize it.
- The record can talk back. Every organization holds a permanent, free right to claim its profile, correct the record, and appeal. We fix our mistakes in the open.
The whole ecosystem, one record
Families use the directory to see every provider near them, who owns each one, and what the public record shows — before the first phone call.
Practitioners — BCBAs, RBTs, and behavior technicians — research prospective employers the same way: ownership, scale, standing, and integrity records, side by side.
Schools vet the outside agencies they invite to work with their students against a record none of those agencies wrote themselves.
Funding agencies and payers get network-level visibility into ownership concentration and exclusion screening across thousands of organizations at once.
And provider organizations — the good ones, which is most of them — get something the consolidating market rarely offers: a place where doing things right is visible, verifiable, and free to show.
Privacy & terms, briefly
Privacy. We collect the minimum needed to run this resource: an email address if you subscribe to updates, and claim-verification details if you claim a profile. We do not sell personal information, and we do not track families around the internet. Organization profiles contain business information compiled from public and published sources.
Terms of use. The directory is provided for informational purposes. Profiles summarize public records as of their last refresh and may contain errors — which is exactly why every organization holds a right of correction and appeal. Verify time-sensitive details (licensure with your state, insurance participation, current addresses) directly with the provider and the underlying source before acting on them.