The Summer ABA Bridge: How to Keep Progress Going When Therapy Pauses

Your BCBA probably didn't hand you a summer plan. Most don't. The last session ends, they send a progress note, and you're left staring at a summer that used to have 25 hours of scaffolding in it — now with zero. This article is the plan they didn't give you. It's not a replacement for ABA therapy. It's a bridge — a way to maintain the work already done, protect the skills most at risk during a pause, and come back to September with the least regression possible. Parents who run this program for 20–30 minutes a day in July come back in the fall ahead of parents who waited. You don't need clinical training. You need a framework, four specific targets, and one simple tracking tool. Everything you need is below.