New England Center For Children Inc

Programs: Severe unit residential program serves students, ages 6 to 22, from across the united states; this program operates 365 days per year. Necc's severe unit program is designed for students who demonstrate significant self-injury and other severe challenging behaviors. Students live in intensively staffed community based group homes or a specially designed four-apartment home in a residential neighborhood close to the southborough campus. Instruction is primarily given in a one-to-one staff-to-student ratio, with teachers working both in the school and the residence. The ultimate goal of this intensive instruction is to decrease the student's dangerous and severe behaviors and increase his/her capacity to function and communicate independently. In this way the student can be prepared to move on to less restrictive setting for an improved quality of life.

the intermediate residential program operates 365 days a year and isdesigned for students with self-injury and other severe challengingbehaviors. Students live in typical single family homes in residentialneighborhoods close to the southborough campus. These students requireadditional 1:1 staffing opportunities and the program provides increased 1:1 staffing and increased clinical and educational supervision.

the intensive instruction program (iip) is comprised of a preschool and day school serving children ages 3 to 22 at our central school building. In session year-round from 9:00 a. M. To 3:00 p. M. Daily, the iip provides a continuum of intensive, one-to-one instruction. Communication, pre-academic, social, play and self-help skills are the main focus of the intensive training. The necc curriculum follows a developmental progression and is taught using a combination of discrete trials and natural learning opportunities, with the ultimate goal of preparing the student for inclusion. Parents, teachers, and school systems work towards integrating the child with their local district whenever possible.

in addition to the severe unit residential program, intermediate residential program, and the intensive instruction program, referred to in part iii, line 4, necc operates the following programs: -home based service program serves children as young as 14 months and provides intensive home-based program 16-30 hours a week of one-on-one instruction from a necc teacher to the child in his/her own home. -the residential school serves students ages 3 to 22, from across the united states who require a highly structured 24 hour setting to make educational progress. Students learn in a 1:2 or 1:3 teacher-to-student ratio. Students participate in the full scope of the necc curriculum of academic, social, communication and vocational skills as well as physical education. While in their residences, students are focused on independent living skills, leisure interests, recreation and community activities as well as practicing living skills learned at school. -adult program provides services to adults with autism and other developmental disabilities to develop skills and independence needed to foster successful integration into the community and workforce. Capacity in the adult program is limited and consists of prior students of necc's residential school. -the transition services department provides students the opportunity for integration into their local school system, back into their home or to a less restrictive program. Through our transition services department, we assist in making this life change by ensuring a sustained level of support for the child. -consulting services are offered by necc through a number of outreach services including professional trainings and workshops, classroom evaluations and consultations, and individual student evaluation and consultation. These services are designed to integrate our three decades of experience working with applied behavior analysis (aba) methods and techniques into public and private school systems. Since these services do not require any proximity to our southborough (ma) campus, they can be provided virtually anywhere. In addition necc has developed the autism curriculum encyclopedia (ace), a comprehensive online curriculum for autistic children. Through its consulting department, necc offers ace for general public use. -partner classrooms are model aba classrooms that are operated by necc in public school systems in individual communities. These classrooms allow children to receive the high quality services and access to necc's 40 years of expertise in the field of education and autism, while remaining in their local school districts. Skills are addressed in individual instruction sessions, small group and inclusion periods to ensure the acquisition, generalization and maintenance of new skills. -private programs offer private individual state-of-the-art applied behavior analysis (aba) programming to students. Individual families living throughout the world contract with necc to have access to our teaching staff, our supervision and our curriculum. These individual programs provide a full range of educational services designed to help children with autism reach their full potential. -necc-ad- in june 2007, necc signed a long term agreement with the health authority of abu dhabi to establish the new england center for children-abu dhabi. In addition to providing direct instructional services to children with autism, necc-ad will add the full spectrum of services that it provides to the usa. This includes early assessment and intervention to achieve the best possible outcomes, preschool programming, residential services for severe cases, family support services, professional training and development, and a research program to support the best clinical practices in education and treatment for children with autism in the u. A. E. This program currently serves day students and students ranging from 3 to 8 years old diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.