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Works with high school students and as vendors with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) to provide development services. Offers job shadowing, on-the job-training, community based work assessments, work based learning experience, and discovery customized employment.

Offers an early childhood curriculum with applied behavior analysis (ABA) approach to teaching in an integrated classroom setting.

Provides space for teens with Autism to connect, have fun, and practice their social skills in a comfortable and supportive environment. Designed to help teens build friendships, boost confidence, and create lasting memories with peers who understand them.

Provides in home and community settings to assist individuals with Intellectual Disabilities/Autism in acquiring, maintaining, and improving self-help, domestic, socialization, and adaptive skills needed to reside successfully in home and community-based settings.

Provides case and care management services to connect individuals with an intellectual disability/autism to the services and supports they need. Individuals with disabilities are assigned to a Supports Coordinator who locates, coordinates, and monitors services and supports for people with intellectual disabilities and autism.

Offers a Teen Group, focusing on socialization, recreation, and support. Meets during the regular Chapter meetings.

Offering a social club for an opportunity to meet new people and to learn more about Self Advocacy, Independent Living Skills, and Workplace Readiness.

Transportation service is offered to qualified individuals with intellectual disabilities/autism needing non-medical transportation. Service provided on case by case situational basis.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Provides non-medical home and community-based services for people with disabilities. Services are provided to promote consumer choice and independence and include personal care, and other activities of daily living under Community Health Choices (formerly the Waivers).

Providing a safe and non-threatening way to process emotions, thoughts, and experiences. Also, helps individuals learn to regulate their emotions, develop coping skills, and improve self-control, Play therapy is often used with children with developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or other special needs. Beneficial for children experiencing major life changes such as parental divorce, relocation, loss of a loved one, or changes in family structure.

Offers children and teens with Autism or social challenges a welcoming, low-pressure environment to practice social skills, boost interactions, and enhance communication.

Offer a Kindergarten Program that features two classes: one classroom that serves both typically developing children and those with special needs and one classroom dedicated to teaching children with an autism diagnosis.

Offers opportunities to develop expertise in the participant's family and informal care network so that caregivers can help the participant acquire, retain, or improve skills that directly improve the individual's ability to live independently. Training may include communication skills, stress reduction, self-direction, daily living skills, environmental adaptations, and socializing.

A Supports Coordinator (case manager) works with each individual to develop and Individualized Service Plan (ISP) focused on what the individual needs to meet their maximum potential. Supports Coordination is available at no cost to registrants.

Home and Community-Based Autism services are provided to children ranging in age from early childhood to twenty-one, using a tiered approach. For pre-school children, Friendship House offers an intensive behavioral intervention home-based program that focuses on increasing basic learning and language skills. For school-aged children, interventions may include Direct Service Professional support in school, to help the individual learn appropriate adaptive behaviors and decrease behavioral symptoms that may impede learning. In addition, home programming may also be a component of a childâs treatment plan. Home programming for school-aged children typically involves increasing daily living, and socialization while also decreasing maladaptive behaviors. Other individuals on the Spectrum may benefit from interventions that are based in the community in which they live to encourage and utilize services/resources available to all of members of our society.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

The Center's Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) program is a center-based program for children ages 2 to 6. The program offers full-day state-of-the-art intensive and comprehensive treatment based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis. The staff to child ratio is one-to-one. Children who are candidates for Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, Rhett's Disorder and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.

Offers evidence-based, applied behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy services for autism to children impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families, in homes, schools, and community locations. Develops and implements individual treatment plans. Provides intensive, one-on-one therapy 20+ hours per week and service coordination with other professionals and resource providers. Focuses on improving language and communication skills, memory, academic readiness, social and group skills, and caregiver support.

Supports individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism residing in Centre County. All programs and services are designed to support individuals in their own home and/or in their community. Funding options, natural supports and other community resources are explored and developed in order to assist individuals and their families achieve an everyday life.

Offers social interactive group to improve communication, build friendships and establish appropriate boundaries.

Provides psychological and psychiatric evaluations, on-going medication management, diagnostic assessments, as well as individual, family, and group counseling.

Regularly scheduled leisure choices are offered each week throughout the year. Programs are varied and include dinners, dances, swimming, bingo, arts/crafts, special events and much more. Also provides a Fun and Friendship Bowling League, which meets regularly. For children, the Arc offers a five-week summer camp program. In addition "Arc Tracks" presents travel prospects for those who enjoy excursions to destinations such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Lancaster for shows and shopping. We also experience amusement parks, and sporting events.

Provides home and community-based services.

Provides psychological and psychiatric evaluations, on-going medication management, diagnostic assessments, as well as individual, family, and group counseling.