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In operation 365 days a year, NECC’s Staff Intensive Program is designed for
students with self-injury and other severe challenging behaviors. Students live in
a specially designed four-apartment home in a residential neighborhood close to the
Southboro campus. Instruction is primarily given in a one-to-one staff-to-student
ratio, with teachers working both in the school and the residence.
The ultimate goal of this intensive instruction is to decrease the student’s
dangerous and severe behaviors and increase his/her capacity to function and
communicate independently. In this way the student can be prepared to move on to
less restrictive settings and enjoy an improved quality of life.
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Curriculum
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All students
participate fully in academic,
social, and communication
skills instruction. As with
all NECC programs, the focus
is on skill acquisition.
Through the application
of a highly specialized
educational and behavior
management program, students
develop the skills and appropriate
behaviors that enable them
to live, attend school and
work with much less support.
Our priority is to assess
all functions of the child’s
behaviors and develop treatment
plans to increase their
abilities to interact successfully
with the people in their
environment, so that resorting
to dangerous behaviors is
unnecessary. This plan stresses
the development of functional
communication skills, identifying
and establishing preferred
activities and reinforcers
and teaching the child to
become competent in many
self-care, leisure and daily
living skills so that they
experience repeated success.
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Residential
Living |
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In order
to ensure consistency
across environments, teachers
work both in the school
and the residence. Programs
taught in the residence
are designed to compliment
the instruction received
at the school, and incorporate
services available in
the local community. All
students in the Staff
Intensive Residential
Program participate in
NECC’s comprehensive
health care program.
To see a profile of the
type of student enrolled
in this program please
click
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33 Turnpike Road, Southborough, Massachusetts, 01772-2108 | directions
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Telephone: 508-481-1015 | Fax: 508-485-3421 | e-mail |
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