Meyer Center

The Meyer Center’s interdisciplinary team provides a comprehensive range of services which promote growth in all developmental areas.

Program Goals

1. To provide the student with those development experiences necessary for learning.
2. To teach the student skills pertinent to his/her developmental age for increased growth.
3. To provide the student with an environment which fosters sensitivity and respect for individual differences in others.
4. To coordinate and work to achieve the goals developed by the therapist, the teacher and the parent/guardian.

To achieve this mission, we have developed a multi-disciplinary team consisting of

• Certified teachers and trained paraprofessionals
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Physical Therapists
• Social Workers

Upon entering the preschool program, each student is evaluated by an interdisciplinary team of teacher, therapists and social worker to determine his/her current level of developmental functioning. The multi-disciplinary team coordinates services with the family and physician to develop an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) to identify specific needs in the following areas: cognitive, language, sensory, gross and fine motor, social/emotional, and self-help.

Strategies are planned and implemented to reach established goals for each student in the classroom, therapy and home. This interdisciplinary approach allows the student to be viewed as a “whole child” functioning with separate and distinct developmental skills. The curriculum incorporates music therapy, dance therapy, pet therapy, yoga/exercise activities and field trips to engage students in a wide variety of experiences.

Parents are provided a quarterly report of  their chid's progress toward meeting established goals and the IEP is updated each year with the family.  The Center's success rate in completing IEP objectives averages 75%. If a child’s progress falls below the standard, the IEP may be revised, or specific strategies developed, in concert with the child’s family, to address the problem areas.

The multidisciplinary team works with parents in securing appropriate public school placement upon their child’s graduation from the Meyer Center program. Coordination with the school district personnel ensures that this transition occurs as smoothly as possible.