Mount Carmel Guild Academy
100 Valley Way
West Orange, New Jersey 07052
Phone: 973-325-4400 ext. 131100
Email: Catherine_Cruz@ccannj.org
Website: mcgacademy.net
Population Served:
ADD-ADHD, Autism, Behavior, Psychiatric/Mood Disorders, Speech/Apraxia
Age Served:
Pre-school, Elementary, Middle School, High School, 18-21 (Transition Program)
Counties Served:
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Union,
Program Description:
The Mount Carmel Guild Academy is an approved NJ State Board Private School for the disabled.
Our accredited program serves students in Pre-K – High School, who are eligible for special education and related services.
The school’s 210-day program focuses on providing an educationally and clinically supportive environment for students between the ages of four and twenty-one. Each classroom is led by state certified teachers in special education as well as specific content areas. In addition, each class consists of multiple paraprofessionals. Our curriculum is fully aligned with state and federal standards. The program offers a full range of academics, counseling, pre-vocational, social and functional life skills.
ABA Program – Offers One-to-one student teacher ratio for discrete trial teaching, principals of applied behavioral analysis to teach all skills, individualized educational goals and programs are specifically developed for each student
Parents are provided with training/information regarding the strategies used to teach different skills and to generalize mastered skills
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a visual system that helps individuals to communicate their wants and needs. The primary focus of PECS is to provide nonverbal and pre-verbal individuals with a nonverbal communication system.
Related services and so much more:
- Speech & Language – receptive & expressive language skills, augmentative communication and oral motor therapy
- Occupational therapy – sensory integration, fine motor, visual motor & visual perceptual skills
- Physical therapy – sensory motor development, gait & mobility training, gross motor skills
- Play therapy – feeling identification & expression, social skills & anger management
- Counseling – Our counselor coordinate and oversee our school-wide behavior management system they have a firm grasp of the social and cultural differences that shape behaviors and relationships. Our counselors are highly trained to help students overcome behavioral and academic struggles. They help students overcome these challenges by implementing positive interventions such as support programs designed to build achievable goals, confidence, positivity and self-worth.
- Technology Program – We create a learning environment that improves student engagement and achievement using technology in the classrooms and in our computer lab.
- Culinary Arts Program – Utilizing a lab and full kitchen
- Music therapy – Creative movement, talent shows, singing and performance
- Nursing – vision & dental screening, medication administration, parent /doctor liaison
- Pediatric physician on staff
- Life skills apartment culinary arts kitchen
- Social Skills Class – Improve socialization and communication skills, focus and attention
- Sensory Room – Tactile experience/sensory integration
- CBI – Community Based Instruction
Behavior Modification: All of our students participate in our School-wide Behavior Management Program, the behavior modification technique that is used is positive reinforcement, which encourages appropriate behaviors through a system of rewards. In addition to rewarding desirable behavior our behavior management system also discourages unwanted behavior and teaches replacement behaviors as well as self-management skills.
Parent Education/Support Groups & Meetings provide parents with opportunities to network, gain information and exchange ideas.