News: New Private School for Children with Autism to Open in Oregon

River City Academy, a private school for children with autism and other neurological disorders, will open in Portland, Oregon in the fall of 2010. Sameera Abdulaziz, the school's founder, is modeling River City after The Monarch School in Houston, Texas. The school is an alternative to traditional schools and will offer early intervention, basic life skills, and individualized therapy plans for each student. The first teachers will train for a year at The Monarch School and future plans call for River City Academy to have a diagnostic clinic and a "Life Academy program for students to practice skills such as food preparation."

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