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Parent Empowerment Program – VIPS parents are invited to VIPS for a n
opportunity to network and troubleshoot strategies for raising a young child
who is visually impaired. There is typically an educational component for
parents and caregivers with VIPS staff and volunteers providing childcare
support as needed.
2 Day Two' s/First Steps Playgroup and Little Learners – Upon their
second birthday, VIPS children are invited to join the two - day preschool
program and/or First Steps Playgroup at Kids Town Preschool on the VIPS
Louisville campus or the Little Learners playgroup on the VIPS Central
Kentucky campus. Two - year - olds are also served in their community and
homes through First Steps.
3 - 5 - year - olds – VIPS children are served in our preschool program at Kids
Town Preschool on the VIPS Louisville campus. VIPS also provides
consultation and direct services in preschool classrooms of public school
systems and private schools.
Sighted Peer Program – VIPS has long recognized, and is supported
through research, that children learn best in the company of same - age
peers who are developing typically. Kids Town Preschool reserves slots for
the inclusion of sighted peers. Sighted peers are welcomed in the Little
Learners playgroups as well.
