VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new report is offering hope for military families with kids with autism.

Kristina Johnson's family is one such family. Her husband is in the Navy. They live in Virginia Beach. News 3 met Johnson as she was taking her three-year-old daughter, Sophia, to receive applied behavior analysis services.

Applied behavior analysis , or ABA, is a type of therapy for people with autism.

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It helps Sophia identify things and communicate her wants and needs. But the therapy isn’t easy to come by for military families.

“I think it’s definitely stressful," Johnson said about the struggle t

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