Our History

The program was founded in 1984 as a community-based alternative to institutions which served students with Learning Disabilities.

The program was founded to supply a transitional apartment program for individuals to learn the skills necessary to live on their own.

From the beginning, the program served as a psycho-educational alternative to traditional “medical model” facilities.

The founder was profoundly influenced by the work on “Normalization” by Wolfensberger. Our belief is that our students with Learning Differences must live, learn and work in environments which duplicate normal real-life conditions.

In order to provide as normative an experience as possible, they must live in environments where they learn to do all the things a regular adult does (shop, cook, clean, pay bills, etc). All teaching takes place in environments that will generalize to their life experience afterward.