ACCESS Family

Name: Optimal ACCESS / ACCESS Academy
Address: 1003 IN-662 West, Newburgh, IN, 47630, United States
Telephone: 812-490-9401

Contact Us For Registration Information For 2025 ACCESS Family Program!

Optimal ACCESS is thrilled to announce that registration will soon be open for our 2025 ACCESS Family program! This unique program provides essential family caregiver training for families of nonspeaking, minimally speaking, and unreliably speaking individuals aged 5-24 who require specialized 1:1 support for communication and regulation due to complex sensory-motor challenges.

**Why Join Us?**

Due to the continued success and overwhelming demand for our innovative support modalities, we are offering ACCESS Family Summer Intensives on a FIRST COME – FIRST SERVED basis, with only 4 families accepted each week.

Family members, including parents, caregivers, and communication/regulation partners, will gain:

– Increased understanding of you nonspeaker

– Improved communication support

– Greater confidence during interactions

– Effective co-regulation skills

– Meaningful family connections

Since our pilot in 2023, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, making it clear that this unique opportunity is invaluable for families.

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Program Highlights

ACCESS Family Summer Intensives provide caregivers with crucial opportunities to develop reliable multi-modal communication skills and practice proven therapeutic supports. Each family will be supported on their individual journey, fostering a sense of community and mutual encouragement.

Program Details:

– **Duration:** 4 days, offered over four weeks in the summer

– **Capacity:** 4 families per week (1 individual and up to 3 family supports)

– **Age Groups:** Two SENIOR WEEKS (14+ years) and two JUNIOR WEEKS (5-13 years)

– **Schedule:** 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Monday – Thursday

– **Activities:** Three days at our center, one day in the community with planned and supported activities

– **Cost:** $3500 per week (Includes all training supplies, lunches, community outings, neurologic music therapy, individualized supports, and family therapy sessions)

*This program is eligible for funding through the IN Medicaid Waiver Family Caregiver Training or ESA. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Please inquire for details.*

The summer camps were amazing. The energy that everyone brought to the sessions was super-human. I love that everything in camp was so inclusive and at a pace where everyone, regardless of their level of spelling ability, can participate.

-ACCESS Family Parent

A Special Thank You:

A heartfelt thank you to our 2023 pilot families as well as our 2024 families. We loved seeing the smiles and growing confidence each day. We hope you are still using those CAN-Do Attitudes!

Registration Information

Don’t miss this chance to reserve your spot for ACCESS Family Summer 2025! Secure your place today and embark on a journey of empowerment and connection.

For More Information: Call 812-490-9401

The Value of Parent / Caregiver Training

Dear Optimal Rhythms,

Last summer, I was pleased to be able to partake in parent training offered by Optimal Rhythms. It helped me to better understand my daughter and how her brain, emotions and body operate. The Family and Caregiver Training sessions that were put on by Optimal Rhythms, in collaboration with Integrative Music Therapy, were informative, educational and much needed for me. I have spent a lot of years drenched in guilt and frustration, mostly because I had professionals tell me what my daughter wasn’t able to do, instead of what she is able to do. My favorite trainings have to do with presuming competence and what that should look like, as well as the explanations of what goes on in the brain of autistic individuals. I also loved how the trainer and our camp coach approached any parent concerns and questions with compassion, understanding and without guilt, which is not something you typically see in other professionals. I am so glad that I got to attend these sessions during CAN-Do Camp with my daughter because I was able to spend time with her, bond with her and learn some new things along the way. I would really love to see these trainings continue for parents because there are none like what Optimal Rhythms offers to us. I have attended a lot of trainings over the years, none of them focus on what I feel is important to help my daughter.

With gratitude,

Angie Brady

An Empowered Parent Gives Thanks for [HOME EDITION] Camp

To Whom It May Concern,

When we first started the journey with Luke it seemed like it was appointment after appointment just hearing over and over again what Luke “has”, what Luke is diagnosed with. I remember just trying to wrap my brain around words like “delay”, “disorder”, “disability”. Once we had this information I spent the better part of a year trying to figure out what to do. We had him in all of the therapies. I just still felt so inadequate to parent him through this journey. I was constantly asking myself “how do I help him through this episode?” “Do I push him through it?” Do I do it for him?” I would ask his doctors. “How do I help him ?” And they would give me generic answers that would leave me with even more questions.

We started music therapy and I immediately saw how effective it was for Luke. We LOVED it. It definitely began to fill a need for Luke, but I was still searching for help for me. I needed someone to give me real time advice with how to help Luke navigate through some of his tough moments. I first heard about the “Can Do Camp” from Luke’s music therapist. To be honest, my first thought was – “something for Luke to go do this summer and I can just drop him off- where do I sign him up!” However, with the pandemic, they had to do things a little differently.