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Once a student is enrolled at
JRC, and provided that parents make available the permissions JRC needs in
order to carry out effective treatment, parents do not have to worry about
receiving a call asking them to remove their child because he/she is too
difficult to handle. Age Ranges and Types of Students As of December, 2004 JRC was serving 228 individuals. Approximately 75% of these were school age, ranging from 7 to 22. Another 25% are adults, many of whom enrolled at JRC when they were school age. The students have a wide variety of diagnoses. Approximately 50% have behavior or psychiatric disorders. The remaining 50% are developmentally disabled and/or autistic-like. Those with behavior/psychiatric disorders live in residences and attend classrooms that are separate from those for the developmentally disabled and/or autistic. As of December, 2004, 72% of JRC’s population was male and 28% were females. Male and female students are housed in separate residences. JRC does not require that a student have or not have a certain diagnosis in order to admit the student. Behavioral treatment appears to be effective in improving all types of behavior problems, irrespective of diagnosis. Diagnoses are based on the frequency with which individuals display various behaviors. If one changes the frequency of those behaviors, the diagnosis changes correspondingly. Therefore, the fundamental issue is what are the problematic behaviors that the student shows and what is the most effective methods for changing those behaviors. |
JRC accepts
difficult-to-treat students that may have failed in other placements.
Provided the parent/guardian grants JRC permissions for needed treatment
procedures, JRC has a policy of neither rejecting nor expelling a student
solely because of the behavioral difficulties the student presents.
