Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life Skills
ACCEL (Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life Skills) is a private, nonprofit organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, behavior disorders and intellectual disabilities.
ACCEL provides a comprehensive instructional program using multisensory instruction, personalized attention to individual needs, customized research-based programming, social emotional skills, fundamental life skills, post-graduation career and job training.
Services are provided through the three centers:
ACCEL School Services – Designed to provide students ages 5 to 22 an academic, behavioral, therapeutic and vocational program. Our collaborative team approach affords students a highly structured learning environment with individualized instruction and small class size.
ACCEL Adult Services – Provides lifelong education and vocational training to individuals over 18 years of age with a variety of disabilities, including intellectual impairment and autism spectrum disorder.
ACCEL Bista Center – Provides therapy to individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other behavior disorders, as well as learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities. In addition, Bista Center provides assistance to families in obtaining the skills necessary to enrich their lives through applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy.
Happenings
May 17
ACCEL – Buckeye Learning Center Graduation
7:00pm
May 18
ACCEL – Buckeye Learning Center
Last Day of School
May 24
ACCEL – South Mountain
Last Day of School
May 25
ACCEL Tempe Campus Graduation
10:00 am
May 26
ACCEL Metro Campus Graduation
10:00 am
May 31
ACCEL Metro Campus and Tempe Campus
Last Day of School
June 12 – July 13
ACCEL ESY
ESY is Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
No ESY on Tuesday, July 4
DONATE
Give to ACCEL. Get a Tax Credit.
Help kids with Special Needs
Thanks to the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program, state taxpayers can help ACCEL’s children and adults with special needs and be eligible for an Arizona state tax credit up to $400 for individuals and $800 for married couples. Itemization is not required, but donations need to be made by April 15, 2018.
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🚨EXCITING EVENT🚨
Our 2017 Fall/Halloween ACCEL Gifted Hands Sidewalk Sale is happening TODAY!!! Be sure to check out all the amazing products our students have been working on! The sale starts today at 9am and ends at 2pm!! You won't want to miss this!
ACCEL has received grants from American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation and BBVA Compass Foundation for tremendously beneficial classroom technology. We thank these foundations for their support!
We had an amazing turn out for our FIRST EVER baseball game at Miracle League of Arizona. It was ACCEL Metro vs ACCEL East and it sure was a nail biter. Both teams had a great time and we are looking forward to the next game!
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If you have any pictures from the game and you want them to be shared on our FB page, please send them our way! We would love to show off our talented students!