The Developmental Skills Program consists of self-contained classes supported in age-appropriate public schools. These programs are designed for students who have intensive/multiple learning and life challenges. PAC has been serving children with intensive developmental and intellectual delays for more than twenty-five years. Class options include a primary class, an elementary class, and a high school option. An organizational chart of the progression of programs, program locations, and age levels of each respective program is illustrated below.

The Development Skills Program curriculum incorporates a variety of teaching methodologies designed to help students generalize skills from the classroom to real life situations. Approaches build from curricula framework content to more functional applications across various people, environments and conditions. Teaching methods and strategies are matched to the individual needs of each student to create a dynamic learning environment within each program. Total communication approaches that use a range of augmentative strategies and augmentative devices offer students opportunities to learn how to direct others in meaningful ways to support their inclusion within real community environments.

As students age upwards toward high school and post-secondary ages, augmentative instruction transitions from classroom activities to real life expectations in the community. Academic proficiency, activities of daily living and employment competencies are gradually generalized from the controlled environments of the classroom and school buildings to the realities of public places, volunteer and job development opportunities, and social situations in community environments. Though total independence is a challenging goal for most students in the Developmental Skills Programs, learning how to direct others to support their participation in real world environments, offers these students opportunities for meaningful interaction in the community settings.