Team of Specialized Staff

We create an interactive and supportive team that consists of family, home school district staff and Helping Hand professionals. Our school is truly a therapeutic day program with clinical services, such as behavior analysis and occupational and speech therapy, woven into the classroom. We utilize specialized methods based on “best practices” in the field autism. Direct Instruction includes strategies that use functional communication training. We rely on a structured teaching method and we track data on a daily basis in order to determine if each student is making progress.

OUR STAFF INCLUDES:

• Special Education Teachers
• Behavior Analysts
• Speech and Language Pathologist
• Occupational Therapist
• School Psychologist
• Developmental Therapist
• Specialized Teachers’ Aides
• Curriculum Coordinator
• Registered Nurse

Our teachers are certified special education teachers with a ratio of one teacher to five students. We have a curriculum coordinator who ensures that each child’s curriculum is appropriate and effective. Our teachers’ aides are specifically trained to work with students with autism, and, in most cases, hold a bachelor’s degree.

Most of our students have one-to-one aides as dictated by their individualized education plans.

Our clinicians are experienced and provide clinical guidance to the rest of the team so that skills acquired in therapy will more likely generalize to the classroom, and, hopefully to the home and the community. We have skilled behavior analysts who ensure that staff understand and respond to behaviors in a way that helps the students engage in the environment in an appropriate way.

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