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Educational Programs
 Preschool and Kindergarten
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 and kindergarten teachers at Clarke School East fuel children's minds with ideas and concepts through creative problem solving, discovery, exploration, reasoning, and hands-on activities.- Children come to Clarke School East 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 and 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.
Parents as Partners
Parents are encouraged to become partners in the learning process, visit classes and participate in school activities. They receive a newsletter about weekly classroom themes and projects as well as keep frequent communication through a home/school notebook. Classroom and therapy room observation windows and listening monitors allow parents and visitors to observe the children and staff without disrupting daily activities.
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