Kansas City Autism Training Center

Autism is one of the most devastating disorders of early childhood, typically causing lifelong impairment in every aspect of a young person's development.

Over 40 years of research has resulted in a treatment that radically changes that outcome for the better. These applied behavioral analytic techniques are not yet available to most autistic children.

The Kansas City Autism Training Center (KcATC) promotes these state-of-the-art services and provides them to children in the Kansas City area and their families.

The Kansas City Autism Training Center's mission is to help people on the autism spectrum fulfill their potential by providing ethical, evidence-based treatment, education, and training.

KcATC provides treatment to children between two and a half and twelve years of age (age of twelve years on or before the first day of September of any school year) with a minimum of 20 hours per week or a maximum of 35 hours per week of one-to-one instruction for 49 weeks per year. Initially, treatment consists of discrete trial sessions separated by short play breaks.

During work sessions, the providers follow highly detailed procedures and record the child’s responses on each presented trial. During play breaks, the children are taught play skills and encouraged to interact with their peers and staff.

Their goal is that every child served at the Center make socially valid changes that are important to the child and his/her family and result in the child's success in a less restrictive environment. For this reason, they provide parent training, ensure skills learned on-site transfer to the home, and support inclusion experiences (both in schools and the community).

Visit the Kansas City Autism Training Center website to learn more, get involved, and donate.

Website: www.kcatc.net