Students are being engaged in the academic process of making meals. This includes budgeting and preparing a meal start to finish, including prep work and clean up. The ACT Students budgeted $40.00. With that $40.00 we made 2 meals for 30 people. Last week we make a Thanksgiving meal. This week we used the leftovers from that meal, added a few additions, and made chicken noodle soup. "Cooking is soup is fun. You have to have chicken and a crockpot." -Cody I enjoy snack prep be

ACT School would like to thank AssetMark Trust Company for its generous donation of $10,000 that allowed us to purchase new desks, specialized sensory chairs, and educational technology for our classroom. Watch the video to hear from our great students! #assetmark #actschool #autism #facilitatedcommunication #nmtsa

Marianna, 8th Grade "Fun Friends at ACT" “So us here at autism ACT School all have own fun thing we do. We start with high school. There is Griffin. He is be joke boy always love laughs. D’Mico is best dance man good looks too. Max is good smiles and fun laughing. Sheridan is much very beautiful girl and best type advocate. Noah is hard worker and best smile no one could beat. Isaac sweet friend best dressed. Then me Marianne good friend good advice. There is also junior high

D'Mico, 11th Grade “Ball Dayz” “Hey blog people it’s D’Mico May. I play ball over at St. Mary’s. It’s my first time being on sports team. I have a thing called autism. Here is my tryout story. On first day I was real nervous. Never did tryouts before. I felt like everyone was looking to see if he got any skills. Yea news is I do. Played as best I could all week. Then they tell me I’m on the crew. Can’t explain but I’m so happy. Them practice times are no joke. But my crew hel

Act School volunteering at the St. Paul De Vincent food bank. #actschool #volunteering

The High School students were asked to choose a number, and incorporate that number into a poem to be displayed at the Fall Open House. Below is a selection of their poems: Day in 24 hours by Marianne, 8th grade ”To live one day. Is you ready. To have 24 good laughs. Say really free 24 words. Use 24 hours to love. Ask 24 new thoughts. Free autism stuck. Easy day.” In 45words by D’Mico, 11th grade “This for you who is autism. To know a feeling. To not have man