The Children’s Autism Center announced that it has acquired local provider Child’s Play Plus, signaling a strategic move to enhance its services in Northeast Indiana.
Starting in 2014 as one clinic specializing in autism services, Child’s Play Plus has become a multidisciplinary pediatric therapy center offering behavioral, developmental and rehabilitative services across multiple locations in Northeast Indiana.
Children’s Autism Center is a nonprofit Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) agency headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Children’s Autism Center has been providing autism support in northeast Indiana since 2005, serving around 140 clients annually across its Fort Wayne, Angola and Columbia City locations.
The acquisition enables Children’s Autism Center to broaden its offerings, including ABA, speech therapy and occupational therapy, to better serve the increasing demand for autism services in the Northeast Indiana region. With this addition, Children’s Autism Center now employs approximately 190 staff members. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 12th Behavioral Health Care (BHC) transaction of 2024. There were 83 BHC transactions announced during 2023, and 113 announced during 2022.
