Kalamazoo Autism Center Golf Outing
Special thanks to Jim and Missy Ohm, their friends, and the sponsors.
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The Kalamazoo Autism Center is a special preschool/daycare program for children with special needs. The Center is working with eight children, providing up to 50 hours per week of one-on-one behavioral-based instruction to help them learn how to live more normal lives—to talk, play, socialize, use the bathroom, wash their hands, eat properly, and to decrease their aggression, repetitive self-stimulation, food over selectivity, and other maladaptive behaviors. Such intensive, skilled training of children with special-needs typically costs more than $40 per hours. This summer, for instance, the Center was able to provide these services to the children and their families for less than $10 per hour; this was achieved by staffing the center with skilled undergrad and grad practicum students from WMU and with personal subsidy by the management of the Center and fund raisers.
DickMalott@DickMalott.com.
Aug 15, 2010
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