Celebration Station
Goals:
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Nurture and form faith of children with developmental disabilities in a concrete fashion.
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Build new relationships with other children within the faith community.
What is Celebration Station?
Children with developmental disabilities learn best through repetition and reinforcement. Often they struggle with abstract reasoning and concepts. Many Bible lessons involve such concepts, making traditional Sunday school frustrating.
The Celebration Station was created to help teach Bible lessons in a concrete fashion to children with special needs.
The Celebration Station prepares some children for CrossWalks by addressing pre-requisite skills needed to be successful in a group setting teaching situation.
Here’s How it Works:
Oversight of the class and curriculum is provided by a psychologist with experience in developmental disabilities and related disorders.
Jamie McGillivary, Director of Beaumont’s Hope Center and Vera Maisel, a special education teacher lead and train our volunteer staff and teachers regularly in the classroom.
Each child has a set of individualized goals to help them interact with their friends and to learn the stories of faith in an experiential way.
Teachers have a background in behavior modification to best help each child.
The one hour session is divided into four 15 minutes intervals.
Intervals include a repetitive musical circle time, structured craft time (following the theme of the CrossWalks curriculum), structured games and free-play time.
A visual schedule is provided to allow the children a visual countdown to the end of the session.
On Family Worship Sundays the children attend as much of the worship service as they are able.
Visit our Special Needs Ministries page or download our brochure to learn about this and other great programs.
Celebration Station
Goals:
-
Nurture and form faith of children with developmental disabilities in a concrete fashion.
-
Build new relationships with other children within the faith community.
What is Celebration Station?
Children with developmental disabilities learn best through repetition and reinforcement. Often they struggle with abstract reasoning and concepts. Many Bible lessons involve such concepts, making traditional Sunday school frustrating.
The Celebration Station was created to help teach Bible lessons in a concrete fashion to children with special needs.
The Celebration Station prepares some children for CrossWalks by addressing pre-requisite skills needed to be successful in a group setting teaching situation.
Here’s How it Works:
Oversight of the class and curriculum is provided by a psychologist with experience in developmental disabilities and related disorders.
Jamie McGillivary, Director of Beaumont’s Hope Center and Vera Maisel, a special education teacher lead and train our volunteer staff and teachers regularly in the classroom.
Each child has a set of individualized goals to help them interact with their friends and to learn the stories of faith in an experiential way.
Teachers have a background in behavior modification to best help each child.
The one hour session is divided into four 15 minutes intervals.
Intervals include a repetitive musical circle time, structured craft time (following the theme of the CrossWalks curriculum), structured games and free-play time.
A visual schedule is provided to allow the children a visual countdown to the end of the session.
On Family Worship Sundays the children attend as much of the worship service as they are able.
Visit our Special Needs Ministries page or download our brochure to learn about this and other great programs.
