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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
    • Board of Directors
    • History
    • Testimonials
    • Academic Calendar
    • Careers
    • COVID-19 Updates
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    • Open House
    • Let's Play Gala - Thank You!
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    • Recommended Reading, Resources & Materials
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Adult Program


Tools for Life

Our program includes three different program tracks, college preparation, career development, and living skills- developmental program.  Students may have a hybrid of these programs.  Within each of the program tracks, we incorporate tools for life:

  • Social Cognition: Code switching (moving between variations of languages in different contexts), nonverbal communication, humor regulation, conflict resolution/negotiation, cultural/racial sensitivity
  • Self-Disclosure: What you choose to reveal about yourself and how within jobs, school relationships, law, social interactions
  • Resiliency: Positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity, “bouncing back” –emotional, sensory, cognitive, physical 
  • Thinking and Problem-Solving: Predicting higher order, previewing, self-monitoring, self-assessment, reflection, and editing, decision-making, causal relationships
  • Metacognition: Thinking about thinking
  • Effective Language and Communication
  • Demystification: Self-awareness and understanding of strengths and challenges
  • Emotions and Brain Functioning: Anatomy, biochemical, fight/flight/freeze override, anger/fear/anxiety awareness and management, depression, OCD, hormones, allergies
  • Personality Types and Variations: Understanding yourself and differences in others
  • Group Dynamics: Work, school, family, peers, societal
  • Expectations of Adulthood: Personal, parental, societal
  • Affect, Awareness and Regulation
  • Social Reciprocity Conflict Resolution
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Marketing
  • Code Switching
  • Social Timing 
  • Collaboration
  • Social Facilitation & Inhibition
  • Humor Regulation Understanding and Interpreting Nuances: Appropriateness, timing, audience, delivery, satire, parodies, race based, irony, puns, sarcasm, exaggeration, political cartoons, bathroom humor
  • Empathy
  • Interpretation of others’ feelings through tone, body language and nuance
  • Discourse Topic Selection & Maintenance
  • Stress Management & Anger Management

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Winter Recess - School Closed
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​230 Diamond Spring Road
Denville, New Jersey 07834    
ph: (973) 989.4033      
fax : (862) 244.4969
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