Jennifer Goodridge, M.Ed. Room 31 Preschool Teacher jgoodridge@hr-k12.org Amanda Lapointe, M.Ed. Room 32 Preschool Teacher alapointe@hr-k12.org Samantha Bernier, MA CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist sbernier@hr-k12.org Amy Bzdel Preschool Paraprofessional Lori Labrie Preschool Paraprofessional Susan Adams Preschool Paraprofessional Makenze Felty Preschool Paraprofessional

The town of Southampton offers a public Inclusion Preschool to meet the mandate for educating preschool children with special needs. The program is open to families who have three and four year old children and five year olds whose birthdays come after September 1st. The morning and afternoon program can accommodate up to seven children with special needs and eight others from the community. By integrating children in this way, each population benefits and enriches the other. Carefully designed activities provide excellent social experiences, increased self-confidence, a base for understanding people with special needs, a foundation of preschool skills and joyful play that is so central to the early childhood stage of development.