Jeff Johnson, government director of the Childrens’ Middle of Maine, spoke to the GFWC Skowhegan Lady’s Membership at its Might assembly. Submitted picture
The Normal Federation of Ladies’s Golf equipment Skowhegan Lady’s Membership met Might 11 on the Heritage Home Restaurant and by way of Zoom to listen to speaker Jeff Johnson.
Johnson is government director of the Kids’s Facilities of Maine, with services in Waterville, Farmington, Augusta and Skowhegan, based on a information launch from the membership.
Johnson gave an outline of the packages serving youngsters with developmental disabilities, starting from six weeks to 6 years, and their households. In an evidence of mind and childhood improvement, he confused that these born with disabilities, together with speech and language deficits, autism and cerebral palsy can (if recognized by way of early screening, intervention and preschool schooling) enhance, be higher ready for public college and revel in an improved high quality of life.
Years in the past, these youngsters have been housed in state establishments or lived in group houses away from their households and depending on others. Within the final 15 years of analysis, there have been many enhancements in early childhood intervention and schooling. Each baby is exclusive, and you will need to understand that individuals have no idea any baby’s full potential. Bodily, speech and occupational remedy, interactions with friends by way of artistic play and recreation and studying beneath the course of educated clinicians and educators who deal with a strength-based mannequin, along with father or mother schooling and assist, can change and enrich the lives of those youngsters and their households.
To be taught extra concerning the Kids’s Facilities of Maine, go to childrensctr.org. To make a referral or to ask questions, name Augusta’s predominant workplace of the Kids’s Middle to speak to the consumption coordinator at 800-894-6264 or 207-626-3497.
For the final two years, the Normal Federation of Ladies’s Golf equipment Maine State President’s Venture has centered round supporting youngsters and households. To assist this mission, the Skowhegan Lady’s Membership has donated cash to Pine Tree Camp and youngsters’s clothes to native elementary faculties, and continued its donations of child and toddler clothes to Newborns in Want. The membership can be donating to the Good Will-Hinckley’s Summer season Campership Program and to the Skowhegan Kids’s Middle.
In June, the membership plans to announce the recipient of this yr’s Skowhegan Lady’s Membership Annual Scholarship to a graduating senior searching for larger schooling.
Space ladies, not solely residents of Skowhegan, who’re considering studying extra and attending conferences (both in-person or by way of Zoom) can name Billie Sherman at 207-474-5052 or Mary Cayford at 207-474-9820.
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