Kids Town Preschool
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Social and Academic Integration
Kids Town Preschool at VIPS is a nationally recognized AER (Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the B/VI) accredited preschool that supports and encourages the mission of preparing children with blindness/low vision to function as closely as possible to their same-age peers in a typical preschool environment. Your child will be prepared for successful academic and social integration at Kids Town Preschool. Our students are exposed to various medium formats (print, auditory, tactual, and braille) to help them succeed in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. The children attending Kids Town Preschool find themselves in specialized settings where the development of specific vision-related skills is embedded into their daily preschool activities.
Kids Town Preschool
1906 Goldsmith Lane
Louisville, KY 40218
Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
The lead classroom teachers in Kids Town Preschool are dually certified as Teachers of the Visually Impaired and other related fields, such as Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education. Lead classroom teachers are supported by two assistant teachers ensuring each child receives the attention they need to thrive in the preschool setting. Students receive educational therapies from public school-related service providers, a music therapist, and through a partnership with the Louisville Ballet. Our Kids Town Preschool team members understand that play is a child’s work. Through play, your child will learn about themselves, other people, and his/her environment. Your child will develop cognitive, problem-solving, and social skills and gain confidence and independence.
Development and Potential
As educators, Kids Town Preschool staff members are always working toward the goal of enabling each individual child to reach his/her maximum potential by recognizing the importance of providing experiences in each of the developmental domains: social/emotional development, motor development, cognitive development, language development, and adaptive/self-help skill development.
Kids Town Preschool opens its doors to other children in the community. Sighted peers give students who are blind or have low vision experience in an inclusive instructional program from the beginning of their educational career. Sighted peer modeling for students with blindness or low vision during classroom activities can enhance their learning and support these students as they develop self-advocacy skills. The sighted peers also help guide our teachers as they strive to incorporate developmentally appropriate experiences for all students. Research continues to support this model for optimal learning for young children with and without special needs.
The teachers at Kids Town Preschool at VIPS center their curriculum on the Kentucky Early Childhood Standards developed by the Kentucky Department of Education. The standards address all areas of development and include appropriate goals for infants, toddlers and preschoolers to ensure the child’s readiness for kindergarten at age five.
The preschool curriculum at Kids Town Preschool is supported by the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC). The ECC is an expanded list of skills, which need to be addressed when educating a student who is blind or has low vision. These additional skills will lead our students to greater levels of independence, self-advocacy, personal care, and recreation and leisure activities, to name but a few areas addressed.
Tuition rates are available upon request. No child or family will be denied services based on income. Transportation is provided by contracting public school systems for students with blindness or low vision.
We provide early intervention services for all of Kentucky and Indiana!
VIPS provides early intervention services to Kentucky and Indiana's youngest children with blindness or low vision. Services include evaluations, in-home visits, and access to resources that help parents and caregivers better understand and support their child who is blind or has low vision. Contact us to learn more about how you can take advantage of the many programs and services that are offered throughout the year.
Would you like to speak with someone directly?
Give us a call at (888) 636-8477.
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Contact the VIPS office for more information!