The Atlas School

Atlas School honors and embraces students' unique minds, spirits, and voices. Empowered communication and respect for student's passions and abilities ease them into rich social and emotional relationships and experiences. Self-identity, growth and joyful engagement join with academic learning and choice-driven community integration to aid students in pursuit of their own life goals and happiness.

The Atlas School is a non-profit, non-public New York City (NYC) school serving children and young adults aged 7+ years diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental differences. A truly individualized full-day educational program is developed for each student. The program uses a multi-strategic approach, data analysis as well as evidence-based and cutting-edge interventions and techniques. Core to every student's program is their social-emotional development and deepening of communication skills. The school's curriculum, the Atlas Map, addresses the whole child in a comprehensive manner and involves working with students across all areas of development. We place a heavy emphasis and top priority on communication as it is integral to every other portion of a student's life and is the cornerstone to lifelong social learning. With an effective means of communication, our students can engage in a limitless number of interactions where they will learn about the world, other people and themselves. Additionally we value and integrate self expression and healthy living into our electives highlighting in both groups and individual sessions opportunities for expansion of traditional learning with the joys of fitness, creative arts, social/vocational skills and technology

Sample Daily Schedule

• 9:00 - 9:30 Morning Meeting

• 9:30 - 10:00 Social & Emotional Time

• 10:00 - 11:00 Math

• 11:00 - 11:30 Science

• 11:30 - 12:00 Body Boosters

• 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

• 12:30 - 1:00 Health & Nutrition

• 1:00-1:30 Social Buddies

• 1:30-2:30 Literacy

• 2:30-3:00 Social Buddies

• 3:00-3:30 Vocational Skills

• 3:30-4:00 Afternoon Reflections/Dismissal