The services offered to our children as well as pre-school activities include Physiotherapy, Occupational and Speech therapy, Hydrotherapy and Physchology. Activities of daily living are also included in our children's day. One of the most important points to remember when working with children with learning disabilities in a pre-school environment is that their attention span can be very short. Therefore we recommend that activities should be very varied and should last no longer than 20 minutes at which point the activity should be changed.
Music plays a very important role in our pre-school activities.
We have found that children who respond to no other activity will respond enthusiastically to action songs and familiar tunes which are repeated. Learning through play and learning through music would be part of our ethos. Restlessness in our children can be a problem. They do not like to be confined in the same room for long spells. We try to overcome this by changing our environment eg.