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"You know, most Down syndrome people cannot read. Montessori taught me to read. It was not easy. Andrea and the teachers, and my classmates, had a lot of patience as they all helped to teach me to read. Can you imagine what life would be like if you could
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t Jordan was not developing social skills in the public school, and the Montessori School would give her a better chance of developing those basic, but essential, skills. The Caira's felt that the decision to place Jordan in a "substantially separate"
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Pre-school education is not just pre-academic learning. I spent some time reading Montessori books and incorporating some of those ideas into my goals: how to pour without spilling, sorting marshmallows, raisins, and nuts, sweeping, making the beds,
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At some point, I had also had the opportunity to observe a child with Down Syndrome in a Montessori classroom. I saw a child who functioned just as well in that setting as everyone else. You couldn't tell by watching him that he was "different." I have
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accept my son, but WANTED HIM, was the Montessori Family School. He attended MFS for four years. He was accepted, graciously accommodated, and embraced by the teachers, staff, administrators, students and families. I feel so deeply grateful to MFS for not
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