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Admissions Procedures
Initial contact
Meet with our Director and/or Assistant Director to
tour the center and share information about our services
and your child’s needs. If you have written medical,
health care or educationally related evaluations on
your child, please bring them with you. If we determine
that our services may be appropriate for your child
you will be given an admissions packet if one has
not already been sent to you via email or mail. A
date and time for the initial evaluation and placement
test for your child to work 1:1 with our Director
and Assistant Director can be scheduled at this time
or you may call to set-up an appointment post this
initial contact. At that time, you may also be asked
to bring your child for a visit as part of an observation
for those considering placement in our weekday school.
Application
When you bring your child for the evaluation, if you
have not already returned the paperwork, please give
our Director or Assistant Director your completed
application and signed “permission to share information”
forms. Please also bring a snack and a drink for your
child as well as favorite toys, books, etc. which
are motivating for your child. Please also be prepared
to pay a fee. All fees are provided in the Admissions
Packet which is not available online.
Evaluation
Our Director and Assistant Director will review any
previous evaluations your child may have had with
other professionals and work with your child one-to-one,
observing his or her specific skill development in
different areas. A variety of assessment tools are
used depending upon a child’s age, grade, and needs
e.g., whether in need of ABA services or tutoring.
If time allows, we will meet briefly at the conclusion
of the evaluation for an interpretive. After the initial
evaluation, a comprehensive report is then written
with recommendations. The report is sent to the parents
for review as long as payment was provided at the
time of the evaluation. Once a family decides to enroll,
a customized instructional program is developed for
the child whether attending the 1:1 sessions or the
Day School program.
Calendar
We accept students for the weekday school at any time
throughout the year. However, please note that not
all children will matriculate into a classroom right
away as they may fair better participating in our
1:1 services first.
Our school calendar follows a typical school year
from late August to early June. For all other services
offered at the institute, we are open during the school
year and in the summer. We are closed for certain
teacher workdays and on these holidays when they fall
on school days or summer camp days: Labor Day, Rosh
Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Thanksgiving weekend, Winter
Break (includes Christmas and New Year’s), Martin
Luther King Day, President’s Day, Spring Break, Good
Friday, Easter Monday, Memorial Day and the week of
Independence Day. A printed school calendar can be
provided upon request and will automatically be provided
to all school families.
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