Who We Are - History (The FECA Experience)

FECA was founded in 1994 by a concerned group of eight families who knew the most appropriate method to educate their children was through applied behavior analysis (ABA). This therapy provides an extremely structured learning environment for children with autism.

At the time, there were no schools offering this method of teaching, and the only way to provide this intervention was to create and administer the program in the individual’s home.

This changed in 1996, when FECA celebrated the opening of the Devereux Millwood Learning Center (DMLC), the first and only school in the Lower Hudson Valley offering this method of teaching children with autism.  Since its creation, DMLC has become a model program for educating children with autism, and has been used as a blueprint for other schools in Pennsylvania and California.