The facility integrates children who have disabilities or developmental delays with children who are developing typically. The program accommodates 44 children with an age range from 3 to 5 years in a part-day program, with both morning and afternoon sessions. Both facilities are licensed by the Kansas State Department of Health and Environment and accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs. The Hoeflin Stone House Child Care Center is on the northeast edge of campus. The center provides full day care for 30 children ranging in age from 18 months to 5 years.
Priority is given to children of working parents.
The program focuses on the children's developmental needs and interests. The activities and environment at both facilities are designed to foster children's cognitive, language, social, emotional, and physical growth and development. A Gigabit Ethernet campus network ensures high-performance connectivity to a variety of enterprise servers on campus, to the Internet, and to other faculty and information resources at research institutions and national laboratories over Internet2. Help is available at the InfoTech Help Desk located in Hale Library and managed by the Information Technology Assistance Center. On-campus access to these resources is available through numerous departmental networks and in University Computing Labs with Microsoft NT PCs and Sun workstations running Solaris Unix.