Treatment will consist of both development of compensatory strategies and remediation therapy. The program has a large well-equipped classroom within the clinic facility and has access to clinic rooms for individual, small group, and cooking activities. The curriculum is based upon the early childhood educational approach of Developmentally Appropriate Practices. The emphasis of the curriculum is on supporting preschool children s language and social interaction through guided play. The classroom team utilizes themes and the naturalistic environment to work with each child at their individual skill level.
All children benefit from the language and academically rich activities provided.
The curriculum is designed to create an atmosphere of social inclusion and peer friendships and foster attitudes of peer acceptance, sharing, and respectful resolution of conflicts. This program utilizes both individual and group therapy. The Articulation program focuses on the development of the discrimination skills necessary to monitor speech production and the placement skills for articulation. Goals for children vary dependent on need. The audiology clinic is open throughout the summer to provide audiological evaluations and central auditory processing evaluations.