When the number of children with autism began to strain autism centers in the Detroit area, Redford Township schools picked up the slack. MacGowan, the K-first grade school, has had great success with visual schedules to prepare children to mainstream to Stuckey Elementary for grades 2 through 5.
Alissa Rothstein, a teacher at MacGowan, creates individualized books for each child to "see his life going into kindergarten for the first time, taking the stress off children who may have fears of going to school, ... It shows them specifically what will happen, how others may interact with them."
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