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UCP of Central Maryland Delrey School for Children with Disabilities (8/2/04)
On an average summer morning in Cantonsville, Maryland, Jordan Miller touches his augmentive communication device to say "grandpa," when prompted by a teacher. Brandon Fulton takes a leisurely stroll with his walker. And Joseph Venti plays interactive video games featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Jordan, Brandon, and Joseph are all students at the Delrey School, a year-round preschool for students with disabilities from 3 to 7-years-old.
Run by UCP of Central Maryland, the outcome-based program helps students develop the motor, academic, social, and self-help skills needed for full integration into community schools.
Founded in 1964, the Delrey School was the first non-public, non-profit preschool in Maryland of its kind. Currently twenty students are enrolled in the program.
Delrey is a full service facility with certified teachers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, social workers, and nurses. A seamstress, orthotist, and carpenter design and build innovative solutions for the accessibility and mobility needs of students. The school even brings in a mobile dentist who specializes in providing services to children with disabilities.
Delrey also is home to a day-care facility that allows integration between children with and without disabilities.
For more information about the Delrey School, contact Delrey Principal Mimi Wang.