"High Quality Educational and Therapeutic Care Options for Special Needs Students"
Guest: Andy Anderson
Raising a special needs child often presents parents with challenging therapeutic and educational decisions.
Andy Anderson joins our guest host, Dr. Michelle, to talk about how The Independent Small Programs Alliance
(ISPA), a consortium of small therapeutic programs, is yielding big results for special needs youth with
autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Founded by Anderson in 2005, ISPA members are
among the highest quality educationally and clinically-based programs and schools in the US and abroad. They
form an umbrella of hope for families in the US and abroad.
ABOUT ANDY ANDERSON, MRA
Andy Anderson is a well-known and very well respected professional in the Therapeutic Schools and Program
Industry. He has 38 years of experience working with special needs children, adolescents and young adults.
Former Executive Director of The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, Andy formed
Independent Small Programs Alliance to assist high quality, smaller programs to succeed and thrive in a large
corporate, conglomerate world.
