The School-Age Program: Intensive Treatment

What is the Intensive Treatment Program?

The Intensive Treatment program is a day treatment program for children 6-18 years old who engage in behavior that requires intervention in order to attend public or private school.  The primary goal is to provide short term behavioral programming emphasizing skills that will ensure a successful transition back to his or her school efficiently. 

Program description

Each child’s program is based upon individualized goals and objectives and family goals and desires.  Particular emphasis involves teaching replacement behaviors that are more adaptive than behaviors already existing in the child’s repertoire.  Teaching replacement behaviors ensures each child has the skills needed to transition back to school.  Appropriate academic skills, complex leisure skills leading to sustained periods of independent play, personal independence, community access, and vocational skills are also emphasized. 

Functional assessments are conducted and potential replacement behaviors are identified.  These replacement behaviors are taught helping the child learn more adaptive ways to communicate, decreasing the need for the challenging behaviors. 

Schedule

Our Intensive Treatment program is a year-round program that runs from 9:00 am-3:30 pm, Monday through Friday.  The Alta Vista Center is closed approximately four weeks throughout the year.  Please refer to our current calendar for specific dates. 

Admissions

Contact info@altavista-autism.org or call 303-759-1192 ext 10 regarding admission.