Group meetings also provide families the opportunity to participate in parent-child activities. Parents as Teachers offers periodic screening of overall development, language, hearing, and vision. The goal is to provide early detection of potential problems to prevent difficulties later in school. Parents as Teachers helps families link with special services, if needed, that are beyond the scope of the program. Experience has shown that Parents as Teachers can produce confident, competent parents and happy, well-rounded, academically able children.
Recent research backs up parents belief in the program s effectiveness and long term benefits.
Parents as Teachers has been committed to evaluating the effectiveness of the program since its inception in 1981. Numerous independent evaluations have been conducted that document positive results of the program, including how children participating in the program for a sustained amount of time performed intellectually and socially at age three and into early elementary school grades and how Parents as Teachers parents benefit. The message is clear across the board, Parents as Teachers works. Ware Shoals District 51 is committed to equal opportunity. The policy of the district is not to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicap or disability.