Upon being told by professionals  to expect to institutionalize her son Julian, who had been diagnosed with autism, Giordana Hrga set out to prove the experts wrong, and the I.M.A.G.IN.E® program was born, in Perth, Western Australia, in April 1996. 

Initially, Julian was the sole recipient of the experimental instructional procedures, and within two years of numerous tactical discoveries, the research program expanded to include 12 other children diagnosed with autistic disorder. By 1998, the gains Julian had made were also being made by the other children.

After 10 years of intensive data-based research with over 90 children across two countries I.M.A.G.IN.E® is now available to anyone, anywhere in the world, who wishes to implement Precision Teaching and accelerate their child's learning. 

Biographies

Find out more about the people behind I.M.A.G.IN.E® and Precision Teaching:

• Bio: Giordana Hrga
• Bio: Julian Malabello
• Bio: Ogden R Lindsley

Acknowledgements

The children of I.M.A.G.IN.E® in Australia and New Zealand have provided children with autism everywhere with the gift of teaching us "what works" so we can now pass that knowledge on to others. THANK YOU to all the I.M.A.G.IN.E® children and their families for their invaluable contributions! I.M.A.G.IN.E® can be run as home-based or school-based instruction.

The dedicated precision teachers that contributed to the development of I.M.A.G.IN.E® (in alphabetical order) are: Bee Poh Ang, Joanne Collyer, Lisa Cox, Sharon Davis, Helene Dainton, Victoria (Lucy) Jenkins, Tara Kelso, Joanna Kidd, Rosie Logie, Rochelle Matacz, Peter McEvoy, David Morris, Claire Pigliardo, and Joanne Stewart. THANK YOU to all the I.M.A.G.IN.E® teachers! A very special THANK YOU goes out to Christina Reynolds for her diligent administrative contributions.

I.M.A.G.IN.E® is proudly sponsored by Autism Action Inc, a non-profit group set up by families of children with autism spectrum disorders. Dr Giordana Hrga is the Director of the I.M.A.G.IN.E® program.

This site is dedicated to Ogden Richardson Lindsley. Ogden’s legacy of Precision Teaching - the strategies and tactics of accelerated learning - is presented here in a form that is easily implemented by parents, teachers, therapists and carers, of children with learning disabilities. Precision Teaching (PT) is based on the universal principles of learning, and the universal standard measures that precisely monitor change in learning over calendar time.