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Goals
Class Locations and Contact Information
Billing Information
Tuition Rates

Program Overview

The Northwest Regional ESD Early Childhood Peer Program is an integrated preschool for children with identified learning challenges and their non-disabled peers. This program offers a 2-hour preschool class with 2 or 4 day a week options for attendance. Children engage in typcial preschool activites and functional routines that help them learn the self-regulation, socialization and pre-academic skills needed for success in kindergarten. The teaching staff works closely with children and parents to develop goals that address individual needs.

Our program offers

• Small classes with high staff to student ratios.
  
• State licensed teachers & highly trained assistants with extensive background in Early Childhood Education.
  
• Developmentally appropriate activities & materials.

Goals of the classroom

• To provide a diverse classroom environment in which children of all abilities learn to play and work together.
  
• To provide a structured learning environment in which children have the opportunity to learn to play cooperatively with peers, follow school routines, and build pre-academic skills.
  
• To provide children with a wide variety of opportunities to learn at their own rate, and further develop individual learning styles.
  
• To provide developmentally appropriate peer models for preschoolers with special needs.
  
• To provide children the opportunity to develop compassion and understanding of the diversity which exists in their community.
  

Classroom Locations and Contact Information

Class times vary by site.

 

Clatsop County

3194 Marine Dr.

Astoria, OR  97103-2799

Contact: Laura Germond

Phone: 503-325-2862

Columbia County

800 Port Ave.

St. Helens, OR  97051-3008

Contact: Lauren Daehnke

Phone: 503-397-0796

Tillamook County

2410 5th St.

P.O. Box 416

Tillamook, OR  97141-2493

Contact:  Linda Mannenbach

Phone: 503-842-8423

Washington County

5825 NE Ray Circle

Hillsboro, OR  97124

Contact: Jennifer McMahan

Phone: 503-614-1446

Washington County Typical Peer Sites:

 

North Plains Elementary
32030 NW North Ave
North Plains, OR 97133

Sunset Elementary

Physical address:  13845 NW Science Park Dr.

Mailing address:    13845 NE Cornell Rd.

                           Portland, OR  97229

Tualatin Early Childhood Center
19500 SW 90th Ct.

Tualatin, OR 97062

Woodside Early Childhood Center

15150 SW Koll Parkway Suite A

Beaverton, OR  97006

 

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Billing questions; please call your County *See above

 

Monthly Tuition Rates

2 days/week $50
4 days/week $90

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