ACE Institute

06/19/2026

We (Amy and Erika) just finished a wonderful 3-day RPM and Art workshop in California. We are so proud of all our students. They worked very hard and made a lot of progress! Here is a creative writing piece and some completed art projects from the weekend!

06/18/2026

Every person has the ability to understand if taught in the right way.
A reminder that presuming competence begins with providing opportunity.
Developing Communication for Autism Using RPM - Soma Mukhopadhyay (Green Book - 2013)

Every person has the ability to understand if taught in the right way.
A reminder that presuming competence begins with providing opportunity.

Developing Communication for Autism Using RPM - Soma Mukhopadhyay (Green Book - 2013)

 
 
 


06/17/2026

As soccer takes the world stage this week, for the start of the FIFA World Cup, we are in full soccer mode here at ACE.

Our summer outing was rained out this week, so we took the time to learn about how the tournament was structured, fill out our group round bracket, and watch Portugal play DR Congo.

In between this time, Mitch created a game called "Is it soccer, American football, or both?" for students to combine their knowledge of the two sports.

Test your trivia knowledge with the questions below!

06/05/2026

As we get into summer here, we are starting up our Sherlock Holmes class. To start off every class, we start with some sort of word game to get our detective minds working! I often use games and puzzles from the app, Everyday Puzzles, and just adapt their size or layout so our students can work on additional skills like pointing or handwriting. This week our game was called Cladder. You are given a 4 letter word to start and must change just one letter in the word to answer the prompt. You can see in the picture, I created boxes for each letter big enough for our students to be able to handwrite if that is a goal they are working. Students are able to answer with any sort of communication skill so everyone is included! Stay tuned throughout summer to see more of these fun games!

05/21/2026

As we move into our summer schedule, our students are finishing up their art unit on perspectives.

This woven countryside painting worked SO MANY skills. Mainly, blending paint, cutting, gluing, weaving, and drawing!

Phew.... we think they turned out great!

05/13/2026

Hot off the press, straight from Ireland! Everyone at ACE is excited to support our client and friend, Jack Kelly, in his new venture!

Jack painted these beautiful pictures, and the company Dyeboo turned them into these beautiful sweatshirts.

You can learn more about this amazing company and Jack's journey on their FB page and website:

https://dyeboo.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopRpnXqFLqN7GvUXCX9AjzgMfwGeJEfOsm9k5OstGziHblrd5Nz

https://www.facebook.com/dyeboocompany/

01/21/2026

Vocational Skills

When introducing a new skill, we introduce it at our office. This allows our students time to learning the procedure needed in their familiar envrionment. When we move it out in the community they then work on encoding instead of the physical process!

Here is Noah working on pulling clothes with specific tags and sorting them by color in our vocational room.

01/20/2026

UNDERTSTANDING AUTISM THROUGH RPM - Soma Mukhopadhyay.

01/15/2026

Photography class under the snowflakes!

01/13/2026

Wonderful day of learning with HALO Helping Autism through Learning & Outreach

As the founder of the Rapid Prompting Method, Soma is a great resource, offering many excellent classes and books you can take advantage of. Check them out at https://www.halo-soma.org/