
Located at 2740 College Avenue, our newly renovated facility will combine all of our services from both our Club Lane and College Avenue facilities. Our new facility will better meet the needs of our current families by offering one, centralized location with new specialized space and equipment, resources, and enhanced services. Keep reading to learn more about what our new facility has to offer!
Second Autism Classroom
We believe in providing children and families a foundation to begin remediating the core deficits of ASD. Our specialized sensory classrooms are facilitated by a team of teachers and ABA trained therapists, who help children engage in a preschool classroom that encourages dynamic intelligence, functional play, and improved social engagement using a blended approach of interventions including ABA and RDI. This classroom empowers families by providing the support and tools needed in order to create a successful home environment for all members of the family. Through a collaborative approach with professionals and families, our goal is to assist these children to reach developmentally appropriate milestones and ultimately thrive within an integrated classroom setting.
Each classroom includes:
- Low stimulation environment
- Structured curriculum
- Small group instruction
- Individual visual schedules and transitional cues
These classrooms are overseen by an ABA Trained Occupational Therapist and Speech Therapist and have produced incredible results.
Early Literacy Library
Early language and literacy (reading and writing) development begins in the first three years of life and is closely linked to a child's earliest experiences with books and stories. The interactions that young children have with such literacy materials as books, paper, and crayons, and with the adults in their lives are the building blocks for language, reading and writing development. Our new Conway facility will include an early literacy library that will be stocked with hundreds of books and several reading areas to promote early language and literacy in our preschool.
Fully Accessible Playground
Play is important for children's development and also helps children learn social skills, motor skills, and improves cognition. What better place for a child to PLAY than an outdoor playground? Our new fully accessible playground is equipped with specialized equipment that is designed specifically for early childhood development and for those with limitied mobility. The playground has a whimsical, nature themed design. The entire playground includes pliable, rubber surfacing that makes it safe for all our kids to enjoy outside play.
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Suite
Our fully accessible Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Suite is designed to help clients succeed at routine, functional tasks, such as transitioning into and out of a bed or bathtub, cooking and eating meals, and washing and drying their laundry.
The ADL Suite includes:
- Fully accessible kitchen that comes equipped with:
- Full-sized refrigerator
- Microwave
- Oven
- Stove top
- Dishwasher
- Sink
- Counter space
- Fully stocked cabinets (utensils, dishes, etc.)
- Fully accessible bedroom with bed and nightstand
- Fully accessible laundry area with washer and dryer
- Fully accessible bathroom with bathtub and shower
Functional Play Therapy Gym
Our FUNctional play gym was created for children to receive therapy services in a learning enriched and fun-filled environment. This gym is designed to allow children to receive therapeutic intervention through functional play. Children will love the colorful, engaging space with play areas including a theater, marketplace, and art studio. Whether using dress up costumes to work on independence with buttons and zippers or sorting and identifying groceries in the marketplace, this space will provide countless opportunities for children to be therapeutically challenged in a functional play setting.
Feeding and Swallowing Lab
Many of our clients require feeding therapy due to oral motor or sensory-based feeding difficulties. To meet the needs of these clients, our new Conway facility will include a feeding lab designed to promote optimal development in the areas of feeding and swallowing. This room will include a fully equipped kitchen and the specialized equipment need to perform feeding based therapy. This room will also include a two-way mirror with a training room for parents to observe their child during feeding therapy. This will serve as a great resource for our families to better understand the therapeutic process and to ensure carry-over of these skills into the home and community environments.
And that's not all! Our new facility will also include:
- 40,000+ fully accessible square feet
- Gross motor therapy gym
- High stimulation sensory therapy gym
- Low stimulation sensory therapy gym
- Orthopedic therapy gym
- Individual therapy treatment rooms
- Private evaluation rooms
- Specialized therapy equipment
- Integrated, year round developmental preschool
- Specialized autism and social-emotional classrooms
- Large multi-purpose room
- On-site kitchen staff
- Full time registered nurse