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Serves babies, birth through three years
of age, and their families in the security and comfort of
their home. Infant development specialists make home visits
to lend support to parents, helping them to bond with their
baby through means other than sight. The parents learn very
practical skills to help them gain confidence in their parent-infant
relationship. Trust is established while the baby learns to
explore his environment. Body awareness, range of motion,
spatial awareness and orientation must be actively and logically
introduced to promote exploration. For the blind, anticipation
can lead to participation. In order for blind or visually
impaired babies to begin to recognize patterns of actions,
events, and things happening around them, they must have "hands-on"
experiences. These experiences help give them the confidence
they need to begin achieving independence.
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Is a state accredited program. The Center
provides a wondrous environment where blind and visually impaired
children learn and play together with sighted peers. Children,
6 months to 6 years of age, benefit from this reverse mainstream
setting helping them to adapt to the sighted world, both socially
and academically. The educational environment stimulates children's
natural desire to learn, stresses their independence and helps
them reach their full potential. Preschoolers' social skills
and knowledge blossom through a curriculum which includes: weekly
field trips, orientation & mobility, music, computer skills,
fine and gross motor skills, pre-Braille and pre-academic activities.
The vast majority of the Center's graduates have mastered the
skills needed for successful mainstreaming into public school
Kindergarten.
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