The Helix School is a non-profit school, located in Marin County, CA.
The Helix School is a non-profit school, located in Mill Valley, CA, serving children with mild to moderate autism spectrum disorder. Helix’s mission is to provide quality instruction to children with ASD, so they may experience the success, self-realization, and fulfillment that come from learning, self-expression, self-care, and community participation. Our teaching strategies are based on recent advances in naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions, with an emphasis on pivotal response training. Different curricula and programs are integrated into the school depending on the needs of the child. Helix’s vision is to provide effective programming for children with ASD by staying current with best practices in education and clinical research. We value a collaborative relationship with parents, caregivers and other professionals to provide a caring and consistent environment across school and home. Our priorities are to respect, appreciate, and encourage each child’s strengths, while providing support and structure to improve attention, self-regulation, language, focus, and life skills.
Founded in 2014, The Helix School is a non-profit school, located in Marin County, CA. Helix’s mission is to provide our students with the highest level of cutting edge thinking around education, tailored to the child’s unique learning style so that each student may experience the success, self-realization, and fulfillment that come from learning, self-expression, self-care, and community participation.
Helix’s vision is to provide the most effective program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related diagnoses, by staying current with best practices in education and clinical research. We accomplish this through relationship-based and small group teaching, and completely customized curriculum for each child, with an emphasis on functional and play-based models to facilitate deeper, more meaningful, learning.
Our priorities are to respect and encourage each child’s strengths and interests while providing support, structure, and reliability in a positive and nurturing environment. We value a collaborative relationship with parents and caregivers, as well as professionals, so that each student may experience a caring and consistent environment both at Helix and at home.
Helix offers an individualized Integrated Curriculum, including academics, life skills, speech and language, social-emotional, sensory-motor, and behavioral goals and activities. All teachers are aware of the objectives in each important academic and developmental area, and take advantage of natural opportunities to incorporate goals into every situation and activity. Generalization is a primary goal of the Integrated Curriculum, ensuring that a child is able to meet a skill in multiple environments and with multiple communication partners before it is considered met.
