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    • Why Celebrate the Children?
    • Our Mission
    • Our Philosophy
    • Approach >
      • Best Practice Guidelines
      • DIR®
      • Functional Emotional Developmental Levels
      • FCD®
    • Academics & Programs >
      • Summary of Activities
      • Schedules
      • Related Services
      • Student and Family Support Services
      • Assistive Technology
      • Community Based Instruction
      • Connect Experience Write (CEW)® Handwriting Program
      • Outdoor Classroom
      • Horseback Riding
      • Swimming Program
    • Developmental Preschool Program
    • Transition & Adult Program >
      • Green Vision Partnership
      • Transition Program
    • After School Program
    • CTC Outreach Program
    • Our Staff
    • Principal Randy's Corner
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Best Practice Guidlines


We believe that an integrated intervention program for each individual with special needs should:

  • Meet the child at his or her developmental level and build from there 
  • Advance the child’s profile of individual differences: Sensory, Motor and Visual-Spatial, Communication and Language, Socially and Emotionally, Cognitively and Academically 
  • Use highly affective (or high affect cues) and relationship-based interactions to convey meaning 
  • Focus on initiation, intention and discovery to promote problem solving, symbolic thinking and abstraction 
  • Encourage reflection to develop one's sense of self and empathy with others 
  • Respect the family is an equal partner in treatment 
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National Research Council

The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, in their 2001 landmark report, Educating Children with Autism, called for tailoring the treatment approach to unique features of the individual child and recommended giving priority to interventions that promote functional, spontaneous communication and outlined an interdisciplinary approach to education for children. These recommendations still stand today.

Reference: Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism, National Research Council (2001). C. Lord & J. McGee (Eds.). Educating Children with Autism. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.  The book can be purchased from Amazon and is viewable online.

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