Colleen Cornwall opened ABLE Academy in 1996 as a roving mission, bringing her staff and her devotion to the principles of applied behavior analysis into the homes of her students.
Cornwall and her staff attack their students’ learning and social disorders by building new behaviors through one-on-one instruction, speech therapy and small groups. Eventually, Cornwall expanded ABLE to a brick-and-mortar campus, but by 2009 that location was too small for the burgeoning school’s enrollment and 12 employees.