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A Free Early Learning Program for Parents of Children
from Birth to Age 3
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You will learn how to: |
- Recognize your child's ever-changing
abilities and how you
can encourage learning.
- Teach language and social skills, and
encourage intellectual
development and problem solving.
- Choose the best toys for stimulating
curiosity and creativity.
- Discipline fairly and firmly.
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Give your child the best possible start in life!
As a new parent, you
will have many questions about raising your
baby. What should he be doing? Is he
behind or ahead of other children? How can
I teach him? The Parent Early Education
Center (PEEC) can answer your questions.
For first-time parents, we
offer the "Parents as Teachers" (PAT) Program to
help you raise a bright, happy child. PAT
provides you with information on your child's
development and activities that will build
language, thinking, social and motor skills.
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Parents as Teachers offers you: |
| PERSONAL VISITS BY PARENT EDUCATORS:
Once a month, a parent educator will visit you
in your home. She will explain each stage
your baby is going through and how to encourage
the best growth at each. Your parent
educator will also provide educational
information on developmental milestones, and
answer any questions that you might have.
GROUP MEETINGS: Throughout the year,
parent educators coordinate and supervise group
meetings in which parents can share concerns,
ask questions, gain information and socialize
with other parents of similar-aged children.
STAY AND PLAY CENTERS: Stay and Play
centers are fun for parents and children.
These centers help children learn how to
interact socially with others and develop
physical coordination.
PERIODIC SCREENINGS: Individual
periodic screenings include formal hearing and
vision tests, speech and language screening, and
checks on fine and gross motor skills
development.
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Parents as Teachers... |
- Give your child the best possible start
in life, laying the foundation for later
school success.
- Is a free, flexible program for all
first-time parents.
- Is highly effective. An
independent evaluation showed that
participating children:
- Were significantly more advanced in
language development then other 3-year
olds.
- Had made greater strides in
problem-solving and other intellectual
skills.
- Were further along in social
development than their peers.
- Demonstrated skills associated with
later school success.
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