We offer a variety of events, workshops and seminars throughout the year designed to engage, empower and educate both members and their caregivers. Check our calendar for the full list of events and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the know about new opportunities.
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This date is rescheduled from when it was cancelled on January 21st. Participants will be baking homemade sweet or savory hot pockets and sweet monkey bread. Whether you are an experienced baker or aspiring to be one, come check out CTI’s once-a-month Baking Club! We will be picking recipes that fit all participants’ dietary needs,...
$27.00 – $30.00
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VIBES: Voice, Imagination, Body, Ensemble, and Storytelling. This class is being run by Cotting School's very own performing arts teacher Alison McCarron. In this class, you’ll explore all the parts of VIBES—using your voice, imagination and body to perform and create. We’ll play improv games, experiment with music and build our own unique performances together as...
$22.50 – $25.00
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Join us at the Cotting School Campus Center Rock Wall to get the chance to use this state of the art wall to practice your rock climbing skills. CTI is very lucky to have Cotting School's rock climbing team (Marcie Garon, Dave Largenton and Jim) around to help us use all the adaptive equipment to...
$27.00 – $30.00
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Do you love art and getting creative? Do you like up-cycling items to recycle and reuse them? Join us at CTI for a monthly recycled art class. The purpose of this class is to take something ordinary and old, and make it into something new and beautiful. During this first session participants will take old...
$22.50 – $25.00
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This group will focus on topics related to interpersonal communication, boundaries and consent, sexuality and maintaining your health as an adult. Specific weekly topics will be provided closer to the dates scheduled. This class will be led by Erika Cain, CTI’s program manager. Erika has 10 years of teaching experience and is trained as a...
$22.50 – $25.00
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If you enjoy the art of tie dye you will love this CTI class. We will have a guest teacher for this class, Cat Kaner, a CTI member's parent and also a tie dye expert. Cat will teach the group many different techniques for how to roll your white item into various patterns. All supplies...
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$27.00 – $30.00
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This is a rescheduled date because of the snow storm. If you had purchased a ticket for the January 26th date and cannot attend the new February 2nd date, please email Erika or Jenn at ecain@cotting.org or jcallison@cotting.org. If you cannot attend this new date and you want a refund, please let them know as...
$22.50 – $25.00
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Love to cook? Want to learn some basic skills that will increase your independence in the kitchen? Then come to CTI's Back to the Basics Cooking Class--Lunch Edition. We will work on simple cooking skills (such as dicing, peeling, using the stove or microwave), find ways to adapt the kitchen to meet individual needs, find...
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$36.00 – $40.00
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This event is cancelled--check the March calendar for more mindfulness! Did you know that meditation and mindfulness practice can lower stress levels, improve concentration and help you feel more relaxed in just one or two minutes? Learn simple, research-proven mindfulness techniques to help with everyday stress. We will practice light movement, breath work and meditation....
$18.00 – $20.00
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Daily Living Skills Groups are designed to support the growth and development of the skills needed for independent living. Curriculum will support the growth of executive functioning skills including decision making and organization of steps and sequences needed to complete various tasks. This group will be run by Erika Cain, the program manager at CTI....
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$18.00 – $20.00
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Parents and caregivers are invited to join Cotting School Family Support and Engagement Coordinator Naomi Zuckerman and CTI Program Manager Erika Cain for a monthly group meeting centered on resources for transition planning! These are open groups where parents and caregivers can come together for coffee and conversation. Bring questions about available resources, share tips...
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Do you love playing video games and spending time with your friends? Then sign up for CTI's video game club! We will have a Wii and many options for games to play. We also encourage folks to bring their own gaming systems, such as Switches to play with their friends. If you aren't a big...
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$22.50 – $25.00
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Our drop-in lounge events provide young adults (with the support of a PCA/parent/caregiver, if applicable) the opportunity to hang out at the CTI with their friends, play board games/pool and enjoy a meal together, which is included in the price. The meals will rotate from pizza, to pasta, to sandwiches or even breakfast for dinner....
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$27.00 – $30.00
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Have you heard about a sport that's all the rage recently called pickleball? It's a paddle sport the combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis. If you like sports and want to learn something new, feel free to sign up for a pickleball class with Kelsey Nagle, a Cotting School teacher and racket sport...
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$22.50 – $25.00
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Love bowling? Join the CTI for a fun afternoon of bowling with friends, right in Cotting School’s own bowling alley in the Campus Center!
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$27.00 – $30.00
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This group will focus on topics related to interpersonal communication, boundaries and consent, sexuality and maintaining your health as an adult. Specific weekly topics will be provided closer to the dates scheduled. This class will be led by Erika Cain, CTI’s program manager. Erika has 10 years of teaching experience and is trained as a...
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$22.50 – $25.00
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Unfortunately, Meg Schofield will be unable to teach yoga and mindfulness for the next few months due to injury. Luckily, we were able to find a wonderful replacement--Tonya Salerno will take over teaching Meg's classes. She will break the class up into two parts: one part yoga and one part mindfulness, meditation and deep breathing....
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$40.50 – $45.00
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Whether you are an experienced baker or aspiring to be one, come check out CTI’s once-a-month Baking Club! We will be picking recipes that fit all participants' dietary needs, and everyone will be able to take the treats we bake home to enjoy with their friends and family. Participants will decide together whether they’d prefer...
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$27.00 – $30.00
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Accessible Martial Arts is run by Easterseals of Massachusetts, a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of programs and services to disabled children and adults, including therapy, recreation, employment support and assistive technology. Anyone who wants to take this class will gather at CTI to take the class together. This class will be held...
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$18.00 – $20.00
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Do you love art and getting creative? Do you like up-cycling items to recycle and reuse them? Join us at CTI for a monthly recycled art class. The purpose of this class is to take something ordinary and old, and make it into something new and beautiful. During this second session participants will use recycled...
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$27.00 – $30.00
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Join us at CTI for a Valentine's Day gathering where you can spend time with your friends and share a little extra love with those in our CTI community. The party will have a card making station, cookie decorating, Valentine's Day music bingo and light appetizers and drinks. Come dressed in your best reds, pinks...
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$31.50 – $35.00
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The Clemenzi Family will bring their two family bands to Cotting in February! The first half of the show will feature the Clemenzi Crusaders, a father/son duo playing your favorite video game, movie, and tv themes! The second half of the show will feature the entire Clemenzi Family playing covers of your favorite Foo Fighter...
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$36.00 – $40.00
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Our drop-in lounge events provide young adults (with the support of a PCA/parent/caregiver, if applicable) the opportunity to hang out at the CTI with their friends, play board games/pool and enjoy a meal together, which is included in the price. The meals will rotate from pizza, to pasta, to sandwiches or even breakfast for dinner....
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$27.00 – $30.00
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This event was cancelled because of the snow and this is the new date! If you already signed up for the old date, an email has gone out about if you can still attend this rescheduled date. If you would like to attend the new date and have not purchased a ticket yet, please do so...
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$18.00 – $20.00
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In the spirit of giving back, join us at CTI to make animal treats both to donate to organizations in our community and also to bring home for participants own pets. We will be making homemade horse treats to donate to LoveLane in Lincoln, MA, as well as dog and cat treats to donate to...
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$22.50 – $25.00
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This group will focus on topics related to interpersonal communication, boundaries and consent, sexuality and maintaining your health as an adult. Specific weekly topics will be provided closer to the dates scheduled. This class will be led by Erika Cain, CTI’s program manager. Erika has 10 years of teaching experience and is trained as a...
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$22.50 – $25.00
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Join us for a free virtual seminar that explores assistive kitchen tools that help make cooking easier, safer and more accessible. The Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) Tech Kitchen will show us real-world solutions for everyday cooking challenges, including low-tech and high-tech tools ,that can increase your independence in the kitchen. The Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) is...
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Join us at the Cotting School Campus Center Rock Wall to get the chance to use this state of the art wall to practice your rock climbing skills. CTI is very lucky to have Cotting School's rock climbing team (Marcie Garon, Dave Largenton and Jim) around to help us use all the adaptive equipment to...
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$27.00 – $30.00
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This class is going to be all about different science myths and figuring out if they're true or false. Participants will pick a myth and run scientific trails and experiments to see if the myth is in actually a science fact. We expect to get creative, messy and make new discoveries together!
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$22.50 – $25.00
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Join us at the CTI for a Guided Paint Night where participants follow along with an art instructor to create their own unique piece of artwork. Our art instructor for this event will be Aly Robinson, a former Cotting staff member, as well as a former Muse Paint Bar employee. Aly is a Licensed Mental...
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$36.00 – $40.00
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Chu Ling, who founded Chu Ling Dance Academy in 1998, has been a performer and advocate for the arts for over 40 years. As a dancer, choreographer, producer, arts administrator and teacher, she has worked with multi-age performance groups on various types of dance. Chu Ling and her group of dancers are excited to perform...
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$45.00 – $50.00
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*Updated October 2025
To participate in CTI programs, events and activities, individuals must: