Wendy Burke
1/5
Seriously, there are not enough characters allowed to elaborate on how awful our experience with this company was, I have left more info on yelp and facebook if you're curious.
We sought out ABA Therapy Services from Seek Education for my son who displays various aggressive/destructive behaviors. We explained all these issues to Seek several times - during their time with us his therapist:
* Wouldn't stop tickling my son who hates being tickled. My son repeatedly beg him to stop, the therapist replied "I can't not tickle you." I had to tell him to stop, none of this helped with our issues about physical boundaries/consent.
* They stayed in my son's room away from us most of the time playing 'doctor.' I know they weren't doing anything weird, it still felt odd. Also, these guys would get in my son's bed under his clean sheets wearing their shoes, leaving dirt behind.
* He played so rough with my son his bed sheets would be torn off the bed. He even took the entire mattress off the bed, and had to be told we don't tear apart furniture to play. My kids and I live with my parents, he was very disrespectful to their home. We mentioned rooms to stay out of but they ignored this and went in anyway.
* My sin is very destructive - he taught him to smash rocks in the yard (some of these rocks were decorative/sentimental that my mom). He also encouraged my son to pick at the flowers in the yard, something he's not allowed to do.
* The therapist was a jiu jitsu fighter, he (play)pinned my son down and pretended to elbow him in the head. My son repeated this (for real) on his sister.
* The team knew my son was weird with fire, the therapist showed my son a video of a man lighting his hand on fire - yes really!
* He broke one of our violins. He never asked permission to touch it, he decided to look up on youtube how to tune it and broke it.
* He took my daughter's ukelele without asking, then left it on my son's floor out of the case like it was trash. The violin's would also be left out, we had to hide the instruments before he came.
* He took bottles, filled them with hot water and told my son to leave them like that so the tops would shoot off with the pressure - bad thing to teach a destructive child.
* He always excluded my daughter from play, this only made things worse between my son and her.
* He was constantly texting on his phone.
* They had my son do minor tasks around the house which taught him absolutely nothing. My son worked out what they were doing and would comply during session but nothing changed when they weren't there. We asked them to progress their plan for him, they ignored our request.
* They treated my son like a baby, he'd always ask my why they spoke to him the way they did.
* The therapist would come in with his shirt drenched in sweat and go straight to my son's room and sprawl out on his bed across his pillows with his soaking wet sweaty shirt, creating even more laundry for me to do.
* Their 'Parent Training' was an awkward 90 mins of explaining what they do, there was no actual 'training'. He came with a boardroom-style powerpoint presentation to present to me and my mom in our living room, which was just odd. Even worse, he constantly quizzed us on the content of each slide, which was completely patronizing. If we answered his questions he cheered for us like we were little babies, it was cringe-worthy.
* After we terminated services my son asked me if I could please buy him some more M&M's because his therapist apparently helped himself to my son's Easter basket and ate all the candy out over the span of their sessions!!!
Our experience was a complete nightmare and I would not recommend Seek to anyone no matter how dire their situation is. I should have known it would go this way from the start, they left us waiting so long to start services my insurance had to hurry them up. They might just be a bad provider in a sea of good ones, but this experience with them has put us off ABA therapy for good.
