FOCUS Center for Autism

(Formerly FOCUS Alternative Learning Center)


Providing Milieu Therapy-based programs for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders,

and offering family support and community education.

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FOCUS is a licensed Extended Day Treatment Program specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents (ages 5-18) who are on the Autism Spectrum, have anxiety disorders, experience processing and/or social learning difficulties, and who are otherwise, as we like to say, “creatively wired and socially challenged.”

 

FOCUS Center for Autism offers an exciting new Model of Careä to help families and their children living on the Autism Spectrum.  The “Model of Careä consists of three basic components:

 

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Milieu Therapy

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Collaboration

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Mentorship

 

Together, they provide a “wrap-around” model of services that addresses the many obstacles to growth and learning with which these special children and their families are confronted. 

 

What is Milieu Therapy?

Milieu or “life space” is the heart and soul of FOCUS.  This program is planned in such a way that it is constantly supporting, nourishing and reinforcing the child’s ability to learn life skills, such as problem solving and coping skills, while at the same time offering a safe place for these skills to be practiced and integrated into the child’s repertoire of strategies.  Through the use of daily routines, predictable rules and sensitive adult responses, children are able to grasp the potential for learning about their world and how they fit into it.

 

 

Please call our Program Clinical Coordinator, Caroline Jestin, MA, LPC at

(860) 693-8809, ext.14, to schedule an intake appointment or for more information on our programs.
 

 

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FOCUS Center for Autism is a nonprofit 501(c3). 
All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

FOCUS Center for Autism, Inc. admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.  It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of the educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs.


FOCUS Center for Autism, Inc.
PO BOX 452 ~ 126 Dowd Avenue
Canton, CT 06019
Tel: 860-693-8809 Fax: 860-693-0141
email: info@focuscenterforautism.org
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