Tanger School

Tanger School

40260 Five Mile Road

Plymouth, MI 48170

Plymouth-Canton Schools

734.582.6820

 

Tanger Center houses IPSEP, the Infant/Preschool Special Education Program.  “The Plymouth-Canton School District operates a special program which serves the needs of infants and young children with disabilities from birth through five years of age. The focus of service is on the child as a member of the family unit, and intervention is multidisciplinary in nature. A variety of professionals (including teachers, speech and language therapists, occupational and physical therapists, school nurse, psychologist, and social worker) provide evaluation and services in the school and/or home setting.”

“This preschool services children less than a year old to six years of age.  Children must meet special need / special education qualifications and be a resident of Plymouth—Canton.”

Tanger Center has been offering educational and therapeutic services for children with special needs for 30 years. 

Sources:

http://www.pccs.k12.mi.us/schools/preschool/preschool.asp

& http://www.pccs.k12.mi.us/

 

Department of Special Programs & Student Services:

http://web.pccs.k12.mi.us/special_ed/

 

Tanger Fields

 

 
Text Box: “Young children are looking to parents for help in understanding the world, their relationship with others, and their perplexing inner feelings. It's part of normal development for children at times to be demanding, fearful, and once in a while, aggressive. They often ask very challenging questions. In essence, children are saying to us, ’You're the grownups. You know about all those things. You need to help me. I'm just a child’.” Fred Rogers

Tanger Fields:

Therapeutic, Educational, Accessible,

      Recreational Fun for All Children
Text Box: “My teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, had been with me nearly a month, and she had taught me the names of a number of objects. She put them into my hand, spelled their names on her fingers, and helped me to form the letters; but I had not the faintest idea what I was doing. I do not know what I thought. I have only a tactual memory of my fingers going through those motions, and changing from one position to another. One day she handed me a cup and formed the letters "w-a-t-e-r." She says I looked puzzled, and persisted in confusing the two words, spelling cup for water and water for cup. Finally I became angry because Miss Sullivan kept repeating the words over and over again. In despair she led me out to the ivy-covered pump-house and made me hold the cup under the spout while she pumped. With her other hand she spelled "w-a-t-e-r" emphatically, I stood still, my whole body's attention fixed up on the motions of her fingers as the cool stream flowed over my hand. All at once there was a strange stir within me -- a misty consciousness, a sense of something remembered. It was as if I had come back to life after being dead! I understood that what my teacher was doing with fingers meant that cold something that was rushing over my hand, and that it was possible for me to communicate with other people by these signs. It was a wonderful day never to be forgotten! Thoughts that ran forward and backward came to me quickly -- thoughts that seemed to start in my brain and spread all over m. Now I see it was my mental awakening. I think it was an experience somewhat in the nature of a revelation. i showed immediately in many ways that a great change had taken place in me. I wanted to learn the name of every object I touched, and before night I had mastered thrifty words. Nothingness was blotted out! I felt joyous, strong, equal to my limitations! Delicious sensations rippled through me, and sweet, strange things that were locked up in my heart began to sing. That first revelation was worth all those years I had spent in dark, soundless imprisonment. That word "water" dropped into my mind like the sun in a frozen winter world. Before that supreme event there was nothing in me except the instinct to eat and drink and sleep. My days were a blank without a past, present, or future, without hope or anticipation, without interest or joy.” Helen Keller Text Box: “Rainbows are circles (really). We only see the upper halves because the horizon hides the rest.” Kathryn Cramer & Hank Wasiak Text Box: “Children grow in all sorts of remarkable ways between the ages of three and six. What an exciting and important time in all areas of their lives! Day by day, they're able to do more and more things. They have better use of their hands and feet so they naturally are better able to manipulate things like crayons and blocks, as well as run, skip, and ride toys with pedals. All that growing feels so good.” Fred Rogers

 

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