General

March 2016 – This month all LP levels focus on sounds and letters. While we are still working towards best practices in this area, a growing body of research supports the importance of including phonemic awareness and phonics activities when teaching reading to students with Down syndrome. Pre-K and Level 1 classes focus on noticing…

February 2016 – This month our Pre-k and Level 1 classes focus on the educational options of public school, private school and homeschool. There are pros and cons to each setting, so it is important to understand your child’s legal rights and the differences before you walk into your child’s first IEP. By the time most children…

January 2016 – This month all classes focus on sentence and/or paragraph building.  Learning vocabulary and acquiring sight words is a first step, but being able to use those words in spoken and written sentences is a necessary next step.  January’s sessions empower students as they learn to recognize sentences, build sentences using book models…

Please share information about our educational conference “Strategies for Educating Diverse Learners,” a collaboration between CSULB, CSULA, Club 21 and Down Syndrome Foundation.  The conference is intended to empower teachers, administrators, independence facilitators and other education professionals working with students with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities or diverse learning needs. To download the conference…

December 2015 – This month Pre-K, Level 1 and Level 2 classes focus on learning colors and shapes and using this information to sort and create patterns. Levels 3 and 4 continue to work on these concepts at a higher level, with the added concepts of ordering and comparing (objects and numbers). We will talk about resources…