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Infant Family Focus
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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.

Early Childhood Center
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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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