"High Quality Educational and Therapeutic Care Options for Special Needs Students"

Guest: Andy Anderson

Raising a special needs child often presents parents with challenging therapeutic and educational decisions.

Andy Anderson joins our guest host, Dr. Michelle, to talk about how The Independent Small Programs Alliance

(ISPA), a consortium of small therapeutic programs, is yielding big results for special needs youth with

autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Founded by Anderson in 2005, ISPA members are

among the highest quality educationally and clinically-based programs and schools in the US and abroad. They

form an umbrella of hope for families in the US and abroad.

ABOUT ANDY ANDERSON, MRA

Andy Anderson is a well-known and very well respected professional in the Therapeutic Schools and Program

Industry. He has 38 years of experience working with special needs children, adolescents and young adults.

Former Executive Director of The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, Andy formed

Independent Small Programs Alliance to assist high quality, smaller programs to succeed and thrive in a large

corporate, conglomerate world.