Clarke Pennsylvania

The experienced staff at Clarke Pennsylvania helps families as they discover how to enrich their baby's life with meaningful sound and language in the Early Intervention program for children ages 0-3. A supportive home environment is as essential as a solid educational foundation in helping children with hearing loss become independent individuals in a hearing world. Clarke Pennsylvania staff come into the home and give parents confidence as they make decisions about educating their child. Clarke Pennsylvania focuses on the needs of the child as well as the family.

Preschool

Through stimulating classes, children with hearing loss learn about themselves as they experience the ever-changing world around them. Our curriculum enhances children's listening, speech and language skills while fostering their social, emotional, cognitive, physical and creative development. Preschool teachers at Clarke Pennsylvania fuel children's minds with ideas and concepts through creative problem solving, discovery, exploration, reasoning, and hands-on activities.

• Children come to Clarke Pennsylvania five days a week to learn together in small class sizes of 6 to 8 students.
• Classrooms are designed for the unique acoustical needs of children with hearing loss.
• In addition to being in the classroom, children have speech language therapy every day which is facilitated by a speech and language pathologist or teacher of the deaf.
• Daily curriculum includes math, art, reading, science, history, dramatic play, free choice, music, and sensory-motor integration which is all taught through a central theme, worked on both in the classroom and in therapy. Specialized activities address the individual needs of every child and family.