The supports we offer include:

• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Occupational Therapy
• Nursing Services
• Physical Therapy
• Special Education
• Speech Therapy
• Therapeutic Camping
• Whatever a Child Needs

If your child has serious and/or complex educational and behavioral challenges that cannot be provided optimally in your child’s home school, then a MAC may be the school that your child needs, at least until he or she is ready to return to his or her home school.
 

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an empirical methodology used to determine behaviors that need to be increased, decreased, or maintained to ensure a child’s optimal growth and development. It is also a formal methodology for achieving the desired behavioral outcomes. Special education and behavioral health rely extensively on applied behavior analysis, and ABA is considered the treatment of choice for many serious and/or complex educational and behavioral challenges. Applied behavior analysis is also useful in implementing ancillary therapies (occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, etc.), and applied behavior analysts consult with all members of the MAC treatment team to ensure that all treatments complement all other treatments. Applied behavior analysis is the underlying approach that integrates every activity at the MAC.

Occupational Therapy (OT) helps children develop, restore, and maintain fine motor and self-care skills. Services include individualized treatments to improve the child’s independence, strength, and ability to perform academic skills including writing and motor planning.

Nursing Services help children develop, restore, and maintain optimal health while in school. Nurses administer medication, monitor medical conditions and equipment, and perform basic medical services during the course of the school day. They also assess emergent medical conditions and ensure that all necessary medical services are performed in a timely manner.

Speech Therapy helps children develop, restore, and maintain optimal communication skills. Speech therapists help children improve their communication skills through spoken language and/or through alternative communication methods. Speech therapists also help children who have swallowing difficulties to reduce, eliminate, or adapt to these difficulties.

Physical Therapy (PT) helps children develop, restore, and maintain optimal gross motor functionality. Services focus on improved strength, balance, and coordination to enhance gross motor skills at school and in the community. Physical therapists also design and help implement organized gym, fitness, and yoga activities to enhance peer interactions and motor skills.

Special Education is academic instruction that is modified for students with educational challenges. For children with serious and/or complex educational challenges, special education involves academic instruction that is individually tailored to capitalize on each child’s specific learning strengths. Special education teaches each child the way the child learns. Special education does not expect the child to learn the way the teacher teaches.

Therapeutic Camping: All children need to relax and have fun. Children with serious and/or complex educational and behavioral challenges are not exceptions. Children with serious and/or complex educational and behavioral challenges also need continuity of treatment over the summer months to ensure that they continue to grow and develop optimally. Each MAC operates a therapeutic camp during the summer months. The camp is open to children who are enrolled in the MAC during the school year as well as children who attend other schools provided that the children meet eligibility criteria. Our camps offer the traditional recreational and social activities offered at other summer camps within a therapeutic environment that supports each child’s continued optimal growth and development.

Whatever Your Child Needs: We are committed to working with parents/guardians and home schools to identify and offer additional supports needed by each child enrolled at the MAC.

What makes each Milestones Achievement Center a unique school?

Each MAC is a unique school in a variety of ways:

1. Each MAC has a maximum of 8 children per class. Many MACs are significantly smaller. Each of these small schools builds totally individualized supports around one child at a time.
   
2. Each MAC only serves children with the most serious and/or complex educational and/or behavioral challenges.
   
3. Each MAC provides integrated supports to unique children with the most serious and/or complex educational and behavioral challenges. Each support needed by each unique child enrolled in a MAC is an integral component of the MAC.
   
4. Each MAC accepts full responsibility for each child’s educational and behavioral needs. If something is less than optimal, parents/guardians need to make only one telephone call to facilitate optimal supports.
   
5. Each MAC is committed to inclusion of every child within his/her home school provided that inclusion can be accomplished while providing the child with optimal educational and behavioral supports. The planning process for returning every child to his/her home school starts upon enrollment and continues throughout enrollment in the MAC.