• Contact the student's local school for academic and behavioral information
• Observe, monitor, and report on behaviors of concern
• Complete educational assessments-academic, affective, developmental, vocational
• Include social skills training-anger management, friendship skills, impulse control cognitive restructuring, self-esteem building, following directions
• Supervise academic work sent from local school or provide appropriate school work
• Provide adapted or remedial instruction, if needed
• Explore behavior management strategies to develop student's self-control
• Make recommendations to local school or academic behavioral and/or placement changes
• Provide individual counseling to address current problem areas

Students also participate in recreation therapy in various settings on the UI Hospitals and Clinics campus and in the Iowa City community.

A staff child and adolescent psychiatrist provides medical direction fro the program. The multidisciplinary team includes a psychiatric social worker, nurse, clinical teacher, recreation therapist and music therapist.