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Creating better outcomes for developmental delays like
Cerebral Palsy, Downs Syndrome or Autism-
"Structured for Success"
 Ability Plus Therapy is our supervising consultant for our CP clientele.
Admissions office 1855 Lansing St. (Next to Promiseland Church)
Melbourne FL 32935

There are limited spaces available-REGISTER NOW
 Call 321 751-1313 for an appointment
 


  How do I get started- If you have an IEP with the public school and have been in public school in Florida for one year-  You need to be registered by a new for McKay scholarship. Apply for the John McKay Scholarship by filing a letter of intent by visiting www.floridaschoolchoice.org-Print the page with your confirmation number then
 call 321 751-1313 for an appointment.

If you are currently using McKay Funds at another private school- You can switch to our school up until August 1. However spaces are limited it is advised to make the switch as soon as possible.   Advance your childs abilities in Brevards only school with educational rehabilitation programs that improve the brains ability to learn               A unique learning experience with staff trained to meet students special needs in smaller classes        Freedom to learn on their level and speed with computerized or regular curriculum          The power to succeed  with a world class education 

Incredible Horizons is dedicated to students of all abilities as well as children with special needs to reach their greatest potential. We identify skill competencies and skill deficits through assessment, and then develop an individualized plan for teaching specific objectives. As the child progresses, opportunities to expand instruction to group and community environments, including interaction with typical peers, are provided and incorporated into the child's program. Experienced, competent and compassionate instructors then implement teaching/behavioral procedures to increase skill competencies of the child within the classroom environment. Data is regularly collected and analyzed in order to determine whether or not teaching/behavioral procedures have been effective. Our instructors have several years of experience providing instruction to children with learning disabilities of all kinds. They utilize their training in TEACCH methodology, RDI (relationship development for developmentally delayed), ABA and technology based educational programs to have a well rounded approach to meet the students individual needs. They receive supervision and training from our own BCBA and continuing education is a priority.



One of the goals of our program is to utilize strong and effective special education programs that allow students to feel confident and competent in their environment in order to maximize their full potential.  We accomplish that goal through:

Education plan based on individual needs and accomplishments (according to the ABLLS for those needing emphasis on language skills)

The opportunity for students to receive intensive instruction while in the least restrictive setting possible

Sensory intervention opportunities within educational environment

Ongoing supervision by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Access to Incredible Horizons comprehensive educational curriculum options for all core subjects-reading, language arts, math, science and history.

Opportunities to improve their skills in both individual and group instruction

Daily opportunities for instruction in social skills with typical peers

Cognitive Training in a state-of-the-art, high-quality intervention program for a specialized population of students
Individualized reward system with daily reports of accomplishments and behaviors if requested

Additional services from speech, VBT and OT specialists, as well as paraprofessionals in order to serve the children’s individual needs. (Check below for insurance coverage)

PT/OT is available for intensives and ongoing therapy with Ability Plus Therapy for CP / Autism / Sensory Integration needs - See http://www.abilityplustherapy.com for more info

The physical and psychological well being of our students is of paramount importance.  The primary focus of their program is to teach skills that will allow the students to successfully transition into a higher-level educational environment where they will continue to acquire important skills. Therefore, the emphasis of their program would be to develop language and other educational skills that will allow the students to readily acquire a variety of new foundational skills that will eliminate need for intensive or direct instruction. 

Our intensive intervention/prevention curriculums are designed to decrease the gap between performance and ability in all areas of study at a more rapid rate that direct instruction. SRA soft script interventions are scientifically researched, field tested and are proven to be more effective at preparing even a lower functioning student for more independent learning. Adequate and systematic repetition from spiraling curriculum or though the use of technology, builds the foundational prerequisite skills and concepts needed to succeed and move into a more independent peer group.  Computerized Academics are available for those with writing difficulties.

Our program also offers unique strategies that can be adjusted to meet the educational and sensory needs of each individual student. Our educational rehabilitation, weighted vests, ABA/VBT, sensory interventions, social skill programs, cognitive training and supplements all work together to avert the need prescription medication in most cases. Social skills training will be broken down into individual steps so that students can learn how to better interact with others.  Integrating the Incredible Horizons educational rehab programs assist  in developing the processing skills to improve their ability learn and function in their educational setting and in life. 

Most of the children in this program feel out of sync in the regular classroom. Yet this program makes them feel like they fit right in. Sensory difficulties interfere with the way they process information about the world around them. Difficulties integrating sound, taste, touch, smell, movement, proprioceptive (body awareness) and visual input can lead to difficulties in learning, developing fine motor skills and play skills, and completing self-care tasks. It can affect how a child pays attention, how active they are, their organizational skills, coordination, and social/emotional issues. These children need sensory strategies available to them in their educational environment in order to succeed.

***SRA curriculum may be used to provide more intensive instruction.  SRA curriculum is designed to provide intensive support and instruction for interventions that will help close the gaps in their learning and strengthen their foundation for future learning. 

Language for Learning, Kaleidoscope reading and language arts intervention package, Horizons Phonics, Saxon Math,  multi-sensory approaches to science and history are some curriculum options. The newest multi-sensory math intervention program, SRA'S Building Blocks Math Program, can also be used. It provides cutting edge targeted activities that build foundational math skills in a format that will easily engage a student for core conceptual understanding.
    
            Our Sensory Area with Ball Pit                                        Megan using music and movement as a sensory break

The following services can be acquired from Incredible Horizons staff:

§         Choice of One IHA Premium Services with a 255 matrix or an Ability Plus referral
          ****Rebuilding the brain is essential to maximizing potential-Tomatis improves the quality of life as well as progress
                 in other therapies. Read up on this incredible program-not offered anywhere else in Brevard County


          1. Bone Conduction TLP Tomatis-1/2 hour daily-10 weeks program-one week break in-between cycles
          2. DLS Tomatis at half price- A typical program involves 23-30 sessions of 1 hour and 20 minutes
               each, with one or two 3-week breaks in the middle. Sessions occur 2-3 times per week. The entire
               program, including the 3-week break(s), is usually completed within a 3-4 month period. In July of 2007 DLS will release a
               vestibular/visual activities kit so that those systems can be stimulated simultaneous to the auditory.  As you can imagine, this is more
               effective than traditional auditory stimulation.
               ***(Swiss-made equipment - which never met the approval of Dr. Tomatis, is often faulty and the sound
            quality of the old metallic tapes leave much to be desired. Despite the high price for the Swiss
               equipment it's effectiveness is less than our home programs. It takes over 100 hours of listening to get the same results as DLS
               Tomatis takes 40 hours to produce.) 
          3. Applied Behavior Analysis services guided by current research and data collection
          4. Reduced rate neurofeedback or coached cognitive training- Can be acquired by Trisha or Russ through a private contract-
              Some insurance may be applied For more info on premium services click here

       
Additional emphasis on skills needed for success in school and in daily life is provided through:
 §         Procedures for contriving the child's motivation and using that motivation to increase  probability of desirable outcomes 
 §        Reading and Language groups
 §        Sensory motor activities for contriving motivation
§        Opportunity for socialization with typical children
 §      Computerized Academics are available for those with writing difficulties
 §       Full curriculum that has been accepted for accreditation as well as entrance to colleges all over the world
 §     Social skill groups, life skills, (college preparation programs starting at second grade)
 §     Educational Rehabilitation for improving brain power where they are academic struggles
 §     Trisha Gorgol hosted -ABA, speech, 1-1 tutoring, nuerofeedback-Graduate of UCF in communicative disorders is available through
      private contract

 For`Autism
§         Teaching of communication and relational skills within their daily/weekly schedule (PEC's or sign language
       if needed)
 §         Education plans based on individual needs according to ABLL's for language delayed students
 §          Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) and behavior reduction plans

Research shows that a students quality of life and functional skills are dramatically affected by having educational rehabilitation. The ability to learn is increased when programs like DLS Tomatis are offered. Our curriculum provides step-by-step skill-building to strengthen each student's abilities. Students spend part of each day in class learning new skills directly from the teacher and practice these skills with teaching assistants in a group setting. Our methods have been carefully developed to deliver superior care and heightened learning opportunities for each child we serve. To that end, our services complement the goals of our program by teaching students though real world experiences and strategies that are essential to physical, cognitive and psychological growth.
Speech is currently provided on site by Brevard Public Schools. Parent make those arrangements through Patricia Fontans office at 633-1000 ext. 531

Speech and OT can be provided for our students by Child and Family Consultants 321 768-6800 (in their location)
E-mail all fee related and insurance questions to childandfamily@cfl.rr.com
Medipass and Medicaid accepted
No HMO's, Healthease, or Staywell coverage
Out of network coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, United UHC, Tricare

OT and PT can be provided by Ability Plus Therapy for CP and other neurological or developmental disabilities. http://www.abilityplustherapy.com/intensivetherapy.htm

 Call (321) 255-6627 or email abilitytherapy@aol.com for individualized insurance info.

You can also acquire services through Brighter Days Therapy @ 452-8407   

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History shows that these type of children are capable of great things.

Low self-esteem, and the feeling of not "fitting in" to the real world is a common thread with people with learning disabilities.

This list demonstrates that, not only do they have a place in society,
but their comrades have made immeasurable contributions to it, throughout history.

Realizing instead, that they are NOT "stupid or lazy" as some claim. They may actually be those outstanding individuals of each passing generation.

Here's a list of historic people that are inspirational example to special needs children.

Ansel Adams  - Photographer

Ann Bancroft - (1931-present) - Actress

Alexander Graham Bell - (1862-1939) - Telephone Inventor

Harry Andersen - (1952-present) - Actor

Hans Christian Anderson - (1805-1875) - Author

Beethoven - (1770-1827) - Composer

Harry Belafonte - (1927-present) Actor/Vocalist

Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - (1912-1988) - WWII Flying Ace (Black Sheep Squadron Leader)

George Burns - (1896-1996) - Actor

Sir Richard Francis Burton - (1821-1890) - Explorer, Linquist, Scholar, Writer

Admiral Richard Byrd - (1888-1957) - Aviator  (was retired from the navy as, "Unfit for service")

Thomas Carlyle - Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer.

Andrew Carnegie - (1835-1919) Industrialist

Jim Carrey - (1962-present) - Comedian

Lewis Carroll - (1832-1898) - Author - (Alice in Wonderland)

Prince Charles - (1948-present) - Future King of England

Cher - Actress/Singer

Agatha Christie - (1890-1976) - Author

Winston Churchill - Statesman (Failed the sixth grade)

Bill Cosby  - (1937-present) - Actor

Harvey Cushing M.D. - (1869-1939) - Greatest Neurosurgeon of the 20th Century

Salvador Dali - (1904-1989) - Artist

Leonardo da Vinci - (1452-1519) - Inventor/Artist

Walt Disney (A newspaper editor fired him because he had "No good ideas")

Kirk Douglas -  (1916-present) - Actor

Thomas Edison - (1847-1931) - Inventor (His teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything)

Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) - Physicist  (Famous Tongue Sticking Out Picture)

(Einstein was four years old before he could speak, and seven before he could read)

Dwight D. Eisenhower - (1890-1969) - U. S. President/Military General

Michael Faraday - (1791-1867) - British physicist and chemist

F. Scott Fitzgerald - (1896-1940) - Author

Malcolm Forbes - (1919-1990) - Forbes Magazine Founder & Publisher

Henry Ford - (1863-1947) - Automobile Innovator

Benjamin Franklin

Galileo  (Galilei) - (1564-1642) - Mathematician/Astronomer

Danny Glover - (1947-present) - Actor

Tracey Gold - (1969-present) - Actress

Whoopi Goldberg - (1955-present) - Actress

Georg Frideric Handel - (1685-1759) - Composer

Valerie Hardin - Gothic poet, Artist, Children's Author

 Mariette Hartley   - Actress (Tells of her and daughter's ADD)

William Randolph Hearst - (1863-1951) - Newspaper Magnate

Ernest Hemingway - (1899-1961) - Author

Mariel Hemingway - (1961) Actress

Dustin Hoffman - Actor

Bruce Jenner - Athlete

Luci Baines Johnson - LBJ's Daughter

"Magic" Johnson - Basketball Player

Samuel Johnson - (Author

Michael Jordan - Basketball Player

John F. Kennedy - (1917-1963) - U. S. President

Robert F. Kennedy - (1925-1968) - U.S. Attorney General

Jason Kidd - (1973-present) - Professional Basketball Player

John Lennon - (1940-1980) - Musician

Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis - (1961-present) - Olympic Gold Medallists, American track-and-field athlete.

Abraham Lincoln - (1861-1865) - U.S. President

(Entered The Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out a Private)

Greg Louganis - Athlete

James Clerk Maxwell - (1831-1879) - British Physicist

Steve McQueen - (1930-1980) - Actor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (1756-1791) - Composer

Napoleon Bonaparte - (1769-1873) - Emperor

 Nasser (Gamal Abdel-nasser) - (1918-1970) - Egyptian Leader

Sir Issac Newton - (1642-1727) - Scientist and Mathematician (Did poorly in grade school)

Nostradamus  - (1503-1566) Physician - Prophet

Louis Pasteur - (1822-1895) - Scientist -

(Rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College)

General George Patton - (1885-1945) - Military

Pablo Picasso - (1882-1973) - Artist

Edgar Allan Poe - (1809-1849) - Author/Poet

Rachmaninov, (Sergei Vasilyevich) - Composer

Eddie Rickenbacker - (1890-1973) - WWI Flying Ace

John D. Rockefeller - (1839-1937) - Founder, Standard Oil Company

Nelson Rockefeller - (1908-1979) - U.S. Vice President

August Rodin - (1840-1917) - Artist/Sculpturer

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - (1844-1962) - First Lady

Pete Rose - Baseball  Player

Babe Ruth - (1895-1948) - Baseball Legend

Nolan Ryan - Baseball  Player

Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat - (1918-1981) - Egyptian President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1976)

George C. Scott - (1927-present) - Actor

George Bernard Shaw - Author

Will Smith - Actor/Rapper/Entertainer

Tom Smothers - Actor/Singer/Entertainer

Socrates  - (469-399 B.C.) - Philosopher

Suzanne Somers - Actress

Steven Spielberg  -  (1946-present) - Filmmaker

Sylvester Stallone - (1946-present) - Actor

Jackie Stewart - Grand Prix Hall of Famer

James Stewart - Actor

Henry David Thoreau - (1817-1862) - Author

(Lev Nikolayevich) Leo Tolstoy - Russian Author (flunked out of college)

Alberto Tomba - (1966-present) - Italian Alpine Ski Champion

 Vincent van Gogh - Artist

Russell Varian - (1899-1959) - Inventor

Jules Verne - (1828-1905) - Author

Werner  von Braun -  (1912-1977) - Rocket Scientist (Flunked 9th grade algebra)

Lindsay Wagner - (1949-present) - Actress (Bionic Woman)

Gen. William C. Westmoreland - (1914- present) - Military (Vietnam Era)

Robin Williams - (1952- present)  - Comedian

Woodrow Wilson - (1913-1921)  - U. S. President

Henry Winkler - (October 30, 1945 - present)  - Actor (Fonzie)

Stevie Wonder - (1950 - present )   -  Musician

F. W. Woolworth - (1852-1919)  - Department Store Innovator
While working in a dry goods store at 21, his employers wouldn't let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense."

Orville Wright - (1871-1948)  - Airplane Developer

Wilber Wright - (1867-1912)  - Airplane Developer

William Wrigley, Jr. - Chewing Gum Maker

William Butler Yeats  - (1865-1939) Irish Author

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