Latham Centers' Children's Program offers educational, vocational, residential, social, clinical and therapeutic resources which include:

• Separate academic and residential faculty;
• Licensed teachers and speech, physical and occupational therapists;
• Master's level clinicians serve as liaisons from home to school to residences;
• Low student-to-staff ratio;
• Multi-sensory learning environment with current technology utilized throughout the school and residential programs;
• Researched and validated instructional methods and therapeutic approaches;
• Real-life opportunities for generalization of skills both on and off campus;
• Social skills and pragmatics integrated within all aspects of the programs;
• Comprehensive health care services;
• Wide range of after-school and weekend activities;
• Sports and vocational opportunities;
• Safe, supportive, structured environment in which to learn and grow.

Licensed and Approved Programs

Latham Centers is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and is licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care (DEEC). Our residential therapeutic school provides treatment services to approximately 45 students, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are also nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation.

When in-state options are not available, Latham Centers has been approved to admit students from:

• California
• Illinois
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Jersey
• New York, and
• Washington, D.C.

We continue to accept students from state that do not have a formal approval process. Recent students have hailed from Alaska, Ohio, and Virginia.