Specialty Services

The model used in the program for delivery of Speech and language, Occupational therapy and Physical therapy services is a co-teaching model. The teachers and therapists work together to plan and implement curriculum within the classroom setting whenever possible in order to meet the objectives of the children. All children participate in activities and use the materials within the classroom which have been designed to meet their specific needs on a daily basis.

The reasons for providing most services in this way are based on information about how children develop. All children between the ages of 3-5 years develop language, fine and gross motor skills. These are some of the most important learning years of a person’s life. Some children develop these skills more slowly and some develop less effective strategies for learning and/or using language and motor skills. But all of the children with or without special needs are in the midst of their most productive language and motor learning years. Language and motor skills are learned as they are used and in these early years much of this happens when children communicate and play with each other. Therefore, embedding intervention into these activities provides that intervention in the most natural and motivating setting.