About Janus

The vision of the Janus Academy is, "To continue to be an educational leader in enhancing the lives of children with autism, their families and the communities, in which they live, while maintaining excellence in teaching through enhanced student-teacher ratios, individualized curriculum and research based teaching techniques."

The Janus Academy was established in Calgary in 1997 to operate as an accredited, independent, non profit school to meet the unique educational needs of school-aged children with autism. The mission of the Janus Academy is to maximize the potentail of each child with autism by enabling academic success and facilitating lifelong community intergration.

Janus Academy specializes in providing an educational approach that is based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis within structured individualized instruction and small group teaching sessions. Each student's program is based upon an individualized Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills Revised (Partington, James W. 2008), adapted Alberta Learning Curriculum, and a Functional Behavioral Assessment for behaviours that may interfere with learning.

Currently, Janus Academy has 44 students enroled from grade 1 to grade 12. Janus Academy leases 5 classrooms in Ramsay School and 5 classrooms within McDougall United church in which we conduct a 10-month (September to June) school year. Each classroom is made up of five to ten students, a certified teacher or qualified group instructor, and behaviour therapists that carry out individual program and classroom goals. Individual program goals are developed and supervised by a Program Coordinator. All of our instructors receive extensive training in functional analysis of behaviour, discrete trial teaching, reinforcement techniques, verbal behavior, and data collection.

Each student is given the opportunity to participate in a variety of school programs such as art, computers, phys-ed, music and cooking. These extra-curricular activites help to enhance each students program and are designed specifically with the needs of each of our students.