Company
Our mission: To empower educators, clinicians, and parents to effectively engage, communicate with, and educate individuals with autism and other communication disorders.
Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc. (monarchTT.com) was founded in 2005 by CEO Terry Murphy and Wingspan Care Group, a non-profit corporation which includes Bellefaire JCB (bellefairejcb.org), the parent organization of The Monarch School for Children With Autism. In 2006, MTT exclusively licensed intellectual property from Bellefaire JCB and Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School in order to develop and market software for the treatment of children with Autism and other communication disorders.
Guided by Real World Research
MTT was founded by the parent organization of Monarch School for children with ASD. Monarch School serves as a learning environment for developing innovative approaches to communication and instruction using visual strategies and technology. MTT’s research and development are based on clinical observation and trials.
Solving an Expensive Problem
ASD affects 1 in 150 children throughout the world, and U.S. public schools are burdened with the obligation of treatment under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and IDEA legislation. As a result of these mandates, special education costs for K-12 schools have skyrocketed.
Although the Visual Language approach is highly effective for treating ASD, it requires costly production of mixed media materials and one-on-one instruction.
The Power of New Technology
By joining top ASD professionals and software engineers specializing in rich Internet applications, MTT has produced VizZle, an affordable Web-based platform for creating, organizing, and sharing Visual-Language-based learning activities.
