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.

Forty-one students in four residences 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. The school's recreation facilities are used in the evenings and on weekends and small group trips into the community occur daily.

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.

The Children's Residential Program will consider for placement severely autistic children, ages 8 to 17, who are referred to DDI by the N.Y.S. Education Department and Committees on Special Education.

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