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The
Children’s Residential Program (CRP) provides intensive education to
autistic and autistic-like children whose needs exceed what can be
addressed by typical special education services. Students receive
highly specialized intervention that is designed to improve functioning
in areas of their behavior that restrict their participation in normal
activities and environments. An interdisciplinary team of professional
staff and parents together carefully monitor each child’s growth with
the objective of returning that student to his or her natural home and
school, or other less restrictive alternative at the optimal time.
Children live in home-like units serving 10-11 children with living
room, dining room and either single or double bedrooms. Residence life
reflects progressively more complex demands of community living.
Instructional objectives selected for each student anticipate what will
be expected of them in targeted “next” living and working environments.
Students are taught in a very structured and systematic way while
allowances are made for differences in how each child learns. |
