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Good Shepherd School for Children is committed to providing educational opportunities for children, of all abilities, ages 6 weeks to 6 years. It is the foundation of our philosophy that children have the right to education, in the most natural environment amongst their peers. What does inclusive means and how does this affect your child?
Inclusion means that the children who attend Good Shepherd will receive early childhood education services in the classrooms, with their peers, combining typical developing children with children who have developmental delays. When the school moved into its current location in February of 1997, we made a significant programmatic change. Prior to that time the school was designed to primarily meet the educational needs of children with developmental delays. In an effort to expand its mission to be more in tune with contemporary educational philosophies and federal and state legislative mandates, the school became inclusive. We are now proud to serve children of all abilities, playing side by side, with their peers in a happy, healthy and progressive educational environment.
By offering an inclusive environment, we are able to maintain lower teacher to student ratios than other early childhood education centers and we have a higher level of professional expertise within the classrooms on a daily basis. Not only do specialists in early childhood education lead the classrooms, but also specialists in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, music therapy, behavioral therapy, and special educators, who are also known as our developmental therapists, support them. Everyone benefits from an inclusive environment from the children to the teachers to the parents.
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