I cannot disagree more. I have a child with Down Syndrome that is in this preschool. All of the staff have been extremely supportive, caring and more than accommodating. His "aid" as you said is most likely the same as I have and she is wonderful! I can not say enough about her. I also know of three other children that she has supported and their families all share the same feelings as I do. When the teachers and support workers try and encourage your children to do something they are not trying to get your child to "conform" to their ways but rather trying to push your child to be the best they can be. This can sometimes be a learning process for the child and can be difficult for them but none of the staff would ever, ever push your child so hard that they were upset the way you are saying. I have spent a lot of time in class watching and have never witnessed anything like this. When my son started he was not walking and could not feed himself and now he is starting to do both and I owe a lot of it to his support workers persistence and dedication to him. I am sorry that you had this experience but I feel that Discovery Playhouse is an excellent preschool and would recommend it to anyone. And remember for any child with special needs, there only limitations are those you put upon them. read more

I was very unhappy with this preschools inability to cope and help with a special needs child, their attitude of trying to make them "normal" is unacceptable. They supplied an "aid" who was not willing to listen in regards to this child's needs. Also caused stress to this child in trying to make them do what the other children were doing when clearly this child had no understanding in what the other children were doing. Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and stressing out this child. There is nothing wrong with being different, every one is different, but the lack of them actually trying to work with this child's specials needs was appalling and more important it was for them to try to make this child conform to their way. Special needs is special needs. If they could not help this child "play" and learn play how is it that they can help any child with special needs . I would not recommend this pre school for any child read more