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What is the Melody Arons Center?

The Center is a nonprofit organization serving the 0-5 population of at-risk and developmentally disabled infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families.

Its purpose is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of professionals and caregivers with a creative commitment to early intervention, diagnosis, treatment, education, and enrichment of young children and their families.

It links parents as partners with professionals who emphasize a multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic sharing, empowerment, advocacy and responsibility. The Center seeks to carefully explore integration and application of neuroscience with the educational and developmental principles of human development.

It seeks, finds and forms teams of educators, clinicians, scientists and parents who work together to establish early detection, prevention and intervention models that can be replicated across settings, cultures and socioeconomic groups. MAC receives no federal or state funding. Donations are tax deductable.