Cal State East Bay Communicative Sciences and Disorders

 

 Center for Communicative Disorders

Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) Program

The Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) is an on-campus preschool that serves children from ages 4 months to 5 years of age. It is child-centered, and strives to create an environment in which every child and parent feels valued. Parents are urged to participate in the school's activiities as much as possible. It is an ideal environment for children with communication difficulties, because of the supportive Child and Therapist in Preschool Settingnature of the school. Language disordered children are immersed in the same daily routines as the other children, and learn from them with the teachers' guidance. The speech-language clinic builds upon this framework, providing therapy that enhances the language of the classroom routines for the benefit of the language disordered child, rather than removing the child from the benefits of exposure to the daily routine and the other children who are paticipating in them. Student interns learn how to follow classroom routines in their administration of speech-language treatment, how to deliver treatment within the classroom, and how to work with teachers, teachers' aides, and partents within the classroom.

 
Interested persons can call Shelley Simrin, M.A., CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Services at (510) 885-4762, or the ECEC at 510-885-2480  


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