Club ASPIRE

Authors

  • Lisa Cerniglia Greystone Programs, Inc. Wappingers Falls, New York

Abstract

Club ASPIRE (After School Program Integrating Recreation and Education) provides structure and continuous learning opportunities for children with autism and other special needs after school and during school breaks. Club ASPIRE uses a comprehensive incidental teaching approach to foster the development of positive social interaction and skill mastery, while emphasizing communication and self-help skills. No single instructional curriculum is used exclusively; the program attempts to coordinate the child's individual education plan into the daily schedule at Club ASPIRE. The education plan for the program is individually designed to reflect areas of strength and development identified by the child's parent.Autism is a developmental disability whose incidence is on the rise. Autism Research Review Internationa (1999) states: The long-awaited California study of "Changes in the Population of Persons with Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders" documents a shocking recent upsurge in California's population of autistic individuals. The report...is based on analysis of data from California's 12 Regional Centers, which serve a population of almost 140,000 developmentally disabled clients.The data show that the population of autistic clients rose from 3,964 in 1987 to 11,995 in 1998--an increase averaging 26 percent per year... By the end of 1998, nearly half the population of persons with autism in California consisted of children between birth and nine years. Analysis of the trend in the period covered by the report suggests the increase may be expected to continue. Autism experts in many countries have engaged in controversy over reports of increasing incidence of autism....While a single study rarely settles a controversy to the satisfaction of all parties, the new California study in many ways presents the most credible finding yet established, the population of autistic children--especially those at the higher end of the autistic disability spectrum --s increasing at an alarming rate. (1999) This article further discusses a "cluster of autism cases" in Brick, New Jersey. The Autism Society of America (2000) reports that autism is one of the most common developmental disabilities, with over one half a million individuals having autism or some other form of pervasive developmental disorder. According to the Autism Society of America (2000), the determination of up-to-date prevalence statistics across the nation for autism should be a strong priority.

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Published

2001-03-01

How to Cite

Cerniglia, L. . (2001). Club ASPIRE. Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, 15, 95–104. Retrieved from http://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/article/view/295

Issue

Vol. 15-16 (2001)

Section

Program Design

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