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Coralwood Diagnostic Center

By: Reading Rockets (2008)

Media Kit

"Toddling Toward Reading" features the Coralwood Diagnostic Center, a public preschool in Decatur, Georgia. Coralwood runs an inclusion model that mixes special needs students with typically developing students and provides many of its therapies in the classroom. The segment profiles the progress of five-year-old Avery, who has Down syndrome.

"The program originally began for students with special needs," says Coralwood principal Rebecca Blanton in the show. "But in about 1990, we realized that for children to learn from other children, we needed some typically developing students in the building, and it has worked great because both sets
benefit from it."

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