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.