About
Raising the standard for special education.
Lilac Learning Center has provided special education services in Washington since 2016. We operate day school programs and consult with district teams at three sites across the state.
Our mission
A standard, not a slogan.
Raising a standard means being specific about what it is. Ours is that instruction should be designed for the individual student, measured directly, and judged by whether the skills hold up in the student's actual life. That's a claim we can be held to, because the data either shows it or it doesn't.
Add: the founding story — who started Lilac, what gap they saw, and why. This is the one part of the site nobody else can write.
What we do
Day school and district consultation.
Day school
Full-day special education placement for students with moderate to severe developmental disabilities whose needs exceed what a district setting can currently provide. Students are placed by their school district, which funds and contracts the placement.
Consultation
Support for district teams serving students in their own buildings, designed to keep a student in place and build the capacity of the staff around them.
We are not an insurance-funded provider. All services are contracted directly with school districts.
Our team
Who works here.
Certificated special education teachers, board certified behavior analysts and assistant analysts, behavior technicians, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and educational psychologists.
An approved ACE provider
We're an approved Authorized Continuing Education provider through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, which means our analysts earn continuing education in-house at no cost to them. Keeping expertise current is part of the job here rather than something staff fund on their own time.
Add: leadership team — names, roles, and credentials. Districts placing a student want to know who is accountable.
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