But there is evidence that the theory underlying O'Dell's therapy has some scientific validity.
At one end of it sits O'Dell's 14-year-old son, Jacob, who ten years ago doctors diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder.
Given the number of kids on the autism spectrum, it is still questionable whether O'Dell's methods can be captured, encoded and distributed.
O'Dell's longest-serving assistant has been with her ten years, and yet she says she does not feel she could do the work on her own.
O'Dell's form of therapy--intensive sensory and motor-skills training to help the brain build and strengthen neural pathways--has never been subjected to an unbiased clinical trial or peer-reviewed by a medical journal.
O'Dell started Jacob's Ladder when the boy was 5, a year after moving to Atlanta.
O'Dell, who has a master's degree in education from Clemson University, began her therapy career when confronted with her infant son, Jacob.
This is Jacob's Ladder, the school O'Dell founded in 1999 to treat children with neurological disorders.
O'Dell, the senior vice president overseeing Molina's growth strategy, said it was preparing for an influx that could as much as double its membership as states boost Medicaid rolls to comply with the law.
O'Dell interviews the child for a day, looking at the child's ability to hear, manipulate things, move and make noise.
Mr. O'Dell added that enthusiasm for electricity-fueled cars has cooled in the U.S. in recent years.
Miss Barrett's friends eventually helped her contact the police after seeing her and O'Dell in a pub in Cambridge on 22 September.
Figuring the brain's capability could be applied to a kid on the autism spectrum, O'Dell began to tutor Jacob ten hours a day at their home in Rabun Gap, Ga.
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