Meyer Center

The Meyer Center is unique in its interdisciplinary approach which allows the student to be viewed as a “whole child” functioning with separate and distinct developmental skills. 

In a nurturing environment, Meyer Center preschool classrooms encourage children to experiment, explore and manipulate their environment while developing imagination and creativity. Young children learn through active play. They build knowledge through experiences, and increase their knowledge through repeated interactions. A typical daily classroom routine includes a mix of direct instruction and opportunities for children to choose their own activities. Different types of learners are targeted and encouraged through movement, listening, visualization, touch and music activities. Through small and large group activities and one-on-one interaction with teachers, children are exposed to a variety of learning opportunities. Each student is viewed as an individual child functioning with unique and distinct developmental skills, and as a part of the community that he/she shares with other students in the classroom.

Children enrolled at the Meyer Center have diagnoses affecting their overall physical abilities, or speech.  Someof these are:

• Cerebral Palsy
• Down Syndrome
• Genetic Syndromes, such as Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, Angelman's Syndrome, Mobius Syndrome, Lowes Syndrome, Ring 13
• Skeletal Dysplasia
• Spina Bifida
• Periventricular Leukomalacia
• Marked Developmental Delay
• Achondroplasia
• Hydrocephalus
• Charge Association
• Microcephaly
• Dyspraxia

Click here to view photos of  A Day in the Life of the Meyer Center.