This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
If play is the young child's work then a strong Early Intervention program should include equal opportunities for students to develop language, and thinking skills, while fostering social-emotional development in a fun environment.
Our Early Intervention students are wonderful 3-5 year old children of varying ability levels.
Our program is located on a regular elementary school campus, and serves preschool children with IEPs. Although our students are qualified under categories such as: autism; down syndrome; orthopedic impairments; established medical disorder; and speech & language impairments- they are like all children everywhere, in that they love to "play" and have fun. As Early Intervention teachers, we capitalize on this, and set up ways to use play to facilitate learning.
My Project
Dramatic Play (also known as "pretend" or "imaginative" play) is very important to our young learners especially those that have developmental delays in areas such as speech/ language, cognitive, and social skills. Help us "set the stage" for our dramatic play area to be centered in “housekeeping”. We want this new area to be colorful and inviting, where our students can immediately take on a role and begin pretending. We want children to put on a costume and take on various roles playing games like "restaurant". While pretending to cook for and serving each other, our students will be making use of newly learned language to interact with peers, practicing social exchanges when cooperating with peers, while improving cognitive skills by sequencing their actions.
You can make a difference in the work we do with our students!
This new dramatic play area will engage the children in both life and learning. It will increase their understanding of the world they live in, while they are working on important developmental skills that will help them improve their quality of life now, and into adulthood.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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