For Families
A structured curriculum you can run at home — whether you're homeschooling full-time, supplementing what school provides, navigating a new diagnosis, or supporting therapy with home practice. Built by special educators. Used by families and schools across all 50 states.
If you've landed here, you probably already know what it's like to feel like the system isn't moving fast enough for your child. The IEP meeting that didn't change anything. The therapist with a six-month waitlist. The curriculum that wasn't built for kids who learn the way yours does. The Saturday night spent searching for something — anything — structured enough to actually work.
ARIS was built by special educators who spent twenty-five years answering that search for schools. The same curriculum, the same materials, the same step-by-step approach now runs in classrooms across all 50 states — and it's available for you to use at home, at your pace, with as much or as little support as you want.
Three things, working together.
202 sequenced lessons across language, motor, social-emotional, academic readiness, and life skills. The program assesses where your child currently is and points you to the right starting place — so you're not guessing what to teach next.
Physical lesson kits — picture cards, manipulatives, visual supports — ship to your home. Paired with digital activities your child can do on a tablet or laptop. Hands-on first, screens second.
A simple way to track which skills your child has mastered, which are emerging, and what's next. The kind of evidence you can bring to an IEP meeting, share with a therapist, or just keep for yourself.
Families use ARIS in four common ways. Yours might be one of them, or a mix.
Use ARIS as the structured spine of your homeschool — a complete sequenced curriculum across foundational skill domains. Add your own enrichment, reading, and life experiences around it.
Your child is in school, but you want more — more practice, more skill-building, more structured time at home that actually moves the needle. ARIS gives you something to do on Saturday morning that isn't just hoping.
You've just gotten a diagnosis or a developmental flag, and you're trying to figure out what to do while you wait for services to start. ARIS is somewhere to begin — gentle, structured, designed for early skill-building.
Your child is in ABA, speech, OT, or another therapy. ARIS gives you a way to practice and generalize the same skills at home, in coordination with what their team is working on.
However you got here, the next step is the same — see what's in ARIS for home.
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We're collecting stories from families using ARIS at home. If you're one of them, we'd love to hear from you.
Share your storyStages Learning has spent twenty-five years designing autism and special-education curriculum for K–12 classrooms. ARIS is the platform that grew out of that work — the assessment, the lessons, the materials, and the data system, all in one place. It's used by more than 500 school districts. And now it's available for families to use at home.
The company was founded by Angela Nelson, a Harvard-trained learning designer with a graduate degree in education and a law degree from UCLA. Stages is a certified women-owned business, with an advisory board that includes researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The same people designing what runs in classrooms are designing what runs at home.
Download a free ARIS lesson — the full lesson plan, the materials list, and the activity instructions — and try it with your child this week. No subscription, no commitment. If it's a fit, the rest is here when you're ready.
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ARIS is designed for children working on foundational skills — typically ages 2 through 10, though many families use it with older children whose skill profile fits. The program meets your child at their current level, not their chronological grade.
No. ARIS was originally built for children on the autism spectrum and is used widely in special education classrooms, but families use it for any child who benefits from structured, sequenced skill-building — including children with developmental delays, speech delays, or no formal diagnosis at all.
Yes. Every lesson is written so a parent can pick it up and run it — no training, no jargon. The materials are physical and concrete. You'll have onboarding support and weekly check-ins available if you want them.
It depends on your child and your routine. Some families run a lesson in 15–20 minutes; others build it into longer learning blocks. You set the pace. The program is designed to fit around your life, not the other way around.
Yes. The ARIS subscription is month-to-month and you can cancel whenever you need to. Materials you've purchased are yours to keep.