Our Program

Children’s Workshop provides a special education and therapy program for up to 50 students, aged 3-12, with severe communication, learning, social, and behavior problems associated with autism and other developmental disorders.

School is in session for 210 days on a traditional calendar, typically starting the day after Labor Day each year.  Our school day is from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday.

We strive to provide our students with the necessary foundation skills so they can benefit from education in more typical and less restrictive settings.Because our students require precise, specific instruction with many 1:1 opportunities in order to learn new skills, Children’s Workshop is a highly structured Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Direct Instruction (DI) program.

Each day, we provide many dozens of discrete-trial and incidental learning opportunities for our students. We emphasize positive reinforcement for desired student behaviors, so our students become eager learners.

Our team includes credentialed special educators and their assistants, a Speech/Language Therapist and assistant, and an Occupational Therapist, and is led by a Program Coordinator and Director, both of whom are Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA). We collaborate closely with one another and with the parents of our students to provide as comprehensive and intensive a program as possible.