Headstart..

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In a message dated 10/20/04 1:17:57 PM Central Daylight Time, Autism and Aspergers Treatment writes:

Well, I'm not , but I'll tell you anyways. Headstart is a

government funded program that was started in 1965 as a summer program

to get kids around 4 years old ready for elementary school. They

discovered that kids who went through the program did so much better in

school by getting that "head start", they made it a year round program.

Somewhere along the way, they added

HI HEADSTART today is now a preschool, and some are year round, some are not, some are part time, part day that is, and some full day. The one I worked in had a class come in the morning and one in the afternoon.

They have all kinds of ways that people qualify and it is on a point system. They take in to consideration several things. If one has a child with disabilities, yet their income is too high, they could still qualify. There are several determining factors. They always try to fill their programs with at least 10% of those that have disabilities of some kind. We had several with disabilities.

Hope this helps.

in IL

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Hi, I"m a Head STart mom. Have been for four years! My oldest son, now 8, went to Head Start and now I have two of my youngest children, now 3 and 4, going to the Early Head Start program (0-3 brand new last year, only in Florida) and regular Head Start! These are the most awesome programs and they have awesome teachers! I will be a Head STart mom again next school year as my 3 year old will move up after his fourth birthday. I love it and I volunteer in classrooms, I'm on Policy Council and running for Co-Chairperson and also when I was pregnant with my youngest son I volunteered in the main office of Head STart, so I also know a lot about it. I'm a very involved parent!

Carissa

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