Meyer Center

Early Childhood Education Program

Meyer Center teachers 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.

Classroom staff plan and provide age appropriate literacy activities through a language rich curriculum. 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.

Therapy Services

Physical Therapy

• Physical Therapy addresses the child‘s general strength and abilities in the areas of gross motor skills and mobility.   The physical therapy evaluation assesses a child’s posture, sensory processing, muscle tone and co-ordination, developmental skills, skin integrity and adaptive equipment. If problems are identified in these areas, a plan for intervention is developed and physical therapy may be recommended.

Speech-Language Therapy

• Speech-language pathologists evaluate a child's communication functioning and implement a planned treatment program in order to maximize communication skills.  Speech Therapy  services may include assessment and treatment of receptive and expressive language; auditory processing and memory; articulation; fluency (i.e. stuttering); oral-motor development; and feeding skills.

Occupational Therapy

• Occupational Therapy is concerned with the three activities of daily living:  self-care, play, and work. The work of a child at the Meyer Center is preschool and play skills. The occupational therapist evaluates a child to determine if there are delays in any or all of these areas.