The Helping Hands School

Clifton Park, New York, U.S.A.

Serving Preschoolers With Special Needs

For the last 15 years, the Helping Hands School has been building on its founding mission to help developmentally delayed preschoolers prepare for public education. From a farmhouse with two teachers, two aides, a speech pathologist and 20 students, we have grown to 62 staff serving 250 students on a sixty-acre farm with four buildings.

Now, we are reaching into cyberspace to build an online database so we can share important information about young children with disabilities with parents, relatives and friends, health care professionals, academics, teachers, researchers, and students all over the world. Thanks to support from the New York State Education Department, we are taking our files full of effective programs, individual plans of study, case studies like "Tony's Story," an excellent example of the progress of a down syndrome child, and innovative teaching strategies, and moving them online so people all over the world can have easy access.

The Web is the ideal medium for sharing information and this is the beginning of that sharing. We need you to tell us exactly what kind of information you find valuable so we can create a clearinghouse of Internet data about disabled preschoolers. For example, we will explain what developmental delays are, why intervention is necessary, and most importantly, what parents can do and how and where they can find help.

Thank you. We look forward to meeting you online.

	Dedication Page: Exemplary Educators who have made a difference
	The Preschool of Tomorrow: An excellent learning resource
	Tony's Story: a wonderful example of hard work and love
	Electronic Resources: links to online sources
	About Helping Hands: how we help children
	Mailbox: we want to hear from you

Please send your questions and comments to Helping Hands

41 Werner Road, Clifton Park, NY 12065 - 518/664-5066

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