Aurora School
Founded in 2003 by parents in cooperation with The Arc of Loudoun, Aurora School (Aurora) is a caring, educational community that offers quality education for individuals with special needs. We are a private day school that uses the principles of applied behavior analysis to provide an individualized education for students ages 5 to 22 with intellectual and developmental disabilities, primarily autism. Our program challenges our students to achieve personal excellence and independence.
At Aurora, we believe that education is most effective when its application is based on valid research findings from the fields of education and behavior analysis. With this guiding us, our school provides a collaborative, progressive, and innovative learning environment for children of all ages and developmental disabilities.
The cornerstones of our program are positive reinforcement, continuous measurement of learning, and graphic-displayed data analysis. Verbal behavior, social skills, self-management, problem-solving skills, math, and reading are all systematically taught via evidence-based curricula, as well as curricula developed in-house by our teachers and behavior analysts. Teaching practices at Aurora School are derived primarily from the principles and concepts of applied behavior analysis (ABA).
Aurora is a stimulating learning environment for both its students and staff.