ACCEL (Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life-Skills) is a private, nonprofit special education program for individuals, ages 5-21.  ACCEL provides innovative, individualized and comprehensive education, life skills, behavioral and transition  services to students with a wide range of abilities and challenges including autism, intellectual disabilities, learning disorders, and emotional, physical and health impairments.

Programming is individualized and intensive support services are integrated into daily activities. Recreation, music, and adapted aquatics are used in the therapeutic  process to further the child's emotional, physical, cognitive, and/or academic development. Vocational programming is designed to specifically help high school students with special needs develop relevant job skills.

ACCEL School Programs consist of two campuses, as well as satellite classrooms on public school district campuses.  These programs provide evidenced based practices in applied behavior analysis, structured teaching, as well as speech, occupational, and physical therapy services and assistive technology integrated into the classroom programs.  A functional life skills curriculum focusing on dignity, independence, and community skills for all students is a primary focus.

• Elementary age students with mild to moderate cognitive impairments and emotional disabilities
• Elementary age students with mild to moderate cognitive impairments and physical disabilities
• High School  age students with mild to moderate cognitive impairments and physical disabilities
• High School age students with mild to moderate cognitive impairments and emotional disabilities
• Students of all ages with severe to profound disabilities
• Students of all ages who are medically fragile
• Students of all ages with Autism Spectrum Disorders

ACCEL operates Michael’s Garden, a vocational program training special needs adults, ages 18 and older, in creative, enterprise based businesses such as hat making, screen printing, jewelry making and coffee shop.

BISTA offers intensive behavioral services at local clinics, homes and community settings.  The staff at BISTÅ have experience working with individuals with autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and childhood degenerative disorder.

BISTÅ offers services to both insurance-based and private-pay clients.  Our purpose is to change the lives of children with autism and other disabilities and to help families achieve successful outcomes.