Durand School
Durand is a private day school located in Woodbury, NJ serving students ages 5-21 with autism, learning, and developmental disabilities. The curriculum at Durand emphasizes academics, prevocational and functional life-skills. Secondary students receive vocational training and job sampling. Durand provides speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
Why Durand?
- NJ Department of Education approval
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)-based instruction
- Job coaches
- Highly-qualified teachers
- Supervision by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs)
- Small group instruction
- Data-based instruction and intervention
- A curriculum emphasizing functional academics, with a primary focus on prevocational and life-skills training
- Verbal behavior classroom
- Community-based instruction
- Frequent communication between school, home, and the student’s home district
- An extended school year program
- Occupational and physical therapists
- Individualized and classroom sensory diets
- Prompts for Restructuring Oral and Muscular Phonetic Targets technique for Apraxia, Articulation, and Phonological Disorders
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication trained speech therapists
- In home and community based extended day services