MGH Aspire

Good for autism. Good for life skills. Staff is friendly and accommodating. Good place to make friends. Awesome place except that they say autism is not a disease and just an identity and glorify autism when it can be debilitating. They act like severe cases cannot exist. They undermine the right and search for an autism cure.

Normally, I never write public reviews. However, I admire Aspire’s work of helping kids on the ASD spectrum grow and develop as amazing people. I’m autistic and I’ve been to their explorations program (where teens who are also on the autism spectrum visit new places including the city of Boston), and it has improved my stamina of visiting larger places and helped me overcome my challenges of severe anxiety, AND I made awesome friends throughout the program!!!!. This place REALLY should deserve 5 stars because it is such an inclusive space for kids with autism and is so accepting of all races and genders with no discrimination :) plus I gotta say, the staff is SO NICE!!! 😁❤️ SHOUT OUT TO KELLSEY AND IZ FOR BEING AWESOME!

Aspire described their programming in an way that made me think it was a great program. However, the staff were not trained and damaged my child rather then helping them grow. Note this rating scale requires you to select a star to post but the intention was to post this with zero stars.