In order to determine the appropriate level and kind of services needed, each child is assessed by one of our supervisory level staff members. Typically, children will be placed in one of two programs:

School / Home Intensive Services

Children who require intensive intervention are typically given more than 40 hours per week of therapeutic intervention at school.

Similar intervention is provided to children at home for up to 10 hours per week.

Applied behavior analysis techniques, such as discrete trial training, incidental teaching, modeling, pivotal response training, and others, are used to maximize each child's potential.

Social Skills Program

The social skills program is for high-functioning children who are able to communicate verbally, but who have difficulty maintaining appropriate relationships with peers or adults. These children usually attend regular or inclusive schools during the day, and receive services from ICDC after school for up to 10 hours per week. These services may occur either in the child's home or at our own school site.

In the therapeutic classroom, as well as in individual homes, children are taught by qualified, carefully trained and supervised therapists.