Our preschool program also accepts a small number of hearing students. This preschool blended program promotes early interaction between hearing-impaired children and their hearing peers. The centre teaches kindergarten and primary grades in small, intimate classes, and the students learn alongside children of similar abilities. The children continue to develop their speech and language skills while undertaking standard academic studies like reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Each classroom has a teacher and a teacher's assistant, permitting plenty of personalized instruction.
Classes have a maximum of seven hearing-impaired children.
Observation rooms with two-way glass adjoin each classroom, which easily allows parents to observe their children without disrupting the class. Satellite Classroom Vancouver Oral Centre operates an off-campus classroom, staffed by a VOC teacher and assistant, at Sexsmith Elementary School at Ontario and 57th. This program helps students integrate into a mainstream school. Once the child is ready, he or she will attend a mainstream school full time. Some children may not need this interim step and may go directly from the VOC to a mainstream school.