Supporting the Entire Student Ecosystem

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  • STATUS

    Active

  • YEAR

    2020

  • LOCATION

    Woburn, MA

  • IMPACT METRICS
    Company data as of Dec 31, 2022
    Students served
    42K+
    Student improvement pre-test vs post-test gain
    67%
    ABA treatment hours
    ~3.1M
  • B IMPACT SCORE
    100
    2020
    101
    2021
    109
    2022
MISSION STATEMENT

Improve the academic, behavioral, and adaptive functioning of students with disabilities proven tools and strategies that can help them meet educational goals

Opportunity

Segments of the population are chronically underserved with limited access to appropriate educational resources, materials and services.

Solution

TeachTown builds curriculum and software specifically tailored to the unique needs of special education students, who are largely neglected by traditional vendors.

Examples in Action

Since the 1950s, the research-derived principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) have served as the basis of treatments for autism and other developmental disabilities. TeachTown, takes those principles seriously; its enCORE product is the only adaptive core curriculum suite for students with special needs that is built upon these proven principles.

TeachTown not only incorporates scientific principles into its product development, it also demonstrates efficacy in practice. To that end, the company participates in independent third party studies to seek to verify and showcase the improvements that its students see.

The study, Supplemental Basics (published in Autism – The International Journal of Research and Practice), examined the impact of TeachTown’s supplemental Basics product on a treatment group of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. With just 20 minutes a day of these supplemental lessons over a three-month period, the treatment group exhibited statistically significant larger age-equivalent gains in all skills areas assessed – representing an average 2.75-month advantage over the control group resulting from the 3-month study period.

While ABA is most known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) treatment, TeachTown has made it a mission to support all students with moderate-to-severe disabilities, regardless of type. Through this experience, TeachTown has discovered that its curriculum suite can benefit students in at-risk populations who do not fall into traditional categories under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

In the districts of Killeen, TX and Anson, NC, a range of students who identified as at-risk populations participated in a TeachTown study. By virtue of both Brigance IED scores for students with disabilities and the Battelle Developmental Inventory for students without, the use of TeachTown’s Basics product resulted in statistically significant gains.

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