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FOCUS Center for Autism is
a licensed, small, intensive, needs-based clinical 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.”
We are a year round program open daily from 8:30am-6pm Monday through Friday
during the school year,
and from 9am-4pm during our six-week summer program.
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Our program offers the following services:
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 | Academic Tutoring |
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| Individual Therapy |
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| Flexible Scheduling |
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| Mentoring Programs |
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| Medication Monitoring |
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| Sensory Integration |
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| Structured Milieu Therapy |
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| 24/7 support offered to parents |
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| Group Therapy |
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| Collaboration/consultation with
schools and other professionals |
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| Family Therapy |
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What we do…
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| We are a licensed Extended Day Treatment
Program and learning center in the Greater Hartford area |
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| We work with school systems to help
children whose social and emotional needs are interfering with their
ability to function in a traditional classroom setting |
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| Our programs are designed to meet
individual needs, incorporating personal learning styles while at the
same time teaching critical life skills and coping strategies,
promoting study skills, self-motivation and self-esteem |
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| We address the obstacles that impact
everyday life and we design our programs to foster each child’s
ability
to live a happy and well-socialized life |
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| We use a treatment modality called "Milieu
Therapy" to accomplish this mission |
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| Milieu Therapy is a planned treatment
environment |
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| Academic support is woven into the daily
milieu routine |
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| The milieu is constantly supporting and
guiding the children |
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| The milieu takes into consideration the
perspective of the child as well as the perspective of the milieu at
large |
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