With the right support and a dash of encouragement, his educational team helped turn his passion into his present and future.

For students like Chase, every step is a hard one. It takes time, patience, therapy, and the unwavering belief that, with the right support, milestones once thought impossible can become reality.

As a wife, mother, and medical doctor I could not do what I do without the Mary Cariola Center and the teachers, aides and clinicians that work with Aidan. Life would be very different if Aidan could not go to school there.

There was undoubtedly no thought in my mind that he would go anywhere other than Mary Cariola, Alyssa said. I wanted Lincoln to get a school experience. I wanted him to get all his needs in one place.