Our story
We got tired of waiting for the system to change. So we built something better.
Why Adapt Prep exists
For more than two decades, AmberRae Brantley has worked alongside neurodivergent children and the families who love them.
As a BCBA, she sat beside parents in IEP meetings, helped them navigate evaluations, and worked with schools to find solutions for kids who learned differently. She has seen what's possible when the right supports are in place — and she has also seen how often those supports arrive too late, too small, or not at all.
She has watched brilliant, complex children work twice as hard for half the recognition — masking, exhausted, spending so much energy just getting through the school day that there was almost nothing left for actual learning.
And she wasn't just watching from the outside. As a neurodivergent person herself and as a parent of children with IEPs, she understood this experience from every angle — not just professionally, but personally.
The question she kept coming back to was simple: what would school look like if it were actually designed for these kids from the start?
Adapt Prep is her answer.
Three perspectives. One school.
What makes AmberRae's vision for Adapt Prep different is that she brings three distinct and rarely combined perspectives to every decision made about this school.
As a clinician 20 years as a BCBA. Deep expertise in behavior, learning, and what neurodivergent children actually need to thrive — not just comply.
As a parent She has sat where you are sitting. She knows what it feels like to fight for your child and wonder if anyone truly sees them.
As lived experience She doesn't just understand neurodivergence intellectually — she understands it from the inside. That changes everything about how this school is designed.
What we believe
We believe every child comes with a unique set of strengths, needs, and ways of moving through the world — and that it's the environment's job to adapt, not the child's.
We believe learning happens best through curiosity, play, and genuine connection. Not compliance. Not performance. Not sitting still and waiting for information to feel relevant.
We believe the environment is the intervention. The lighting, the relationships, the routines, the pace — these aren't details. They're the difference between a child who survives the school day and one who actually thrives in it.
We believe families are partners, not recipients. You know your child better than any assessment ever will. Our job is to listen first, and build from there.
We believe neurodivergent children don't need to be fixed — they need to be met. With patience, consistency, and people who genuinely delight in who they are.
And we believe that independence — real, meaningful independence — is the goal. Not a child who complies. A child who knows themselves, advocates for their needs, and moves through the world with confidence.
One campus. Two organizations.
One mission.
AmberRae also founded Beehave Academy, a play-based ABA therapy practice serving neurodivergent children and families on the Eastside. Adapt Prep and Beehave Academy share a campus in Sammamish, WA — bringing clinical and educational support under one roof for the first time in this community.
This isn't a coincidence. It's the point.
Learn more about Beehave Academy at beehaveacademy.com →