Description: Easter Seals UCP Dorothy Spainhour Center is a 5 star licensed inclusive developmental day center located in Fayetteville. We provide quality child care services for children with and without disabilities from 1 to 5 years of age. Our classrooms afford the children the opportunity to learn with their peers in a developmentally appropriate environment. We provide early childhood education as well as intervention services for children with an IFSP or IEP. Please feel free to stop by and tour our center!
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Dorothy Spainhour Center is part of Easterseals UCP of NC& Virginia. Spainhour Center is an inclusive Child Development Center, meaning the have 50% "typically" Developing Children and 50% Children with Special needs in each classroom.Children 6wks to 5yrs are Welcome. Spainhour staff all have an Associates or higher in education and is a five star center. Spainhour's facility and trained staff create a welcoming environment for all children no matter their limitations. Spainhour is open Mon.-Fri. 7:30AM-5:30PM. They use Creative Curriculum, Foundations, Brigance Early Screening tool, and are also meeting ITERS and ECERS standards. Spainhour’s therapy staff are on site. They not only work with children individually, but along wide the teacher to work on goals through daily classroom activities. This type of service benefits all the children and the teachers. The Therapist are super creative and all of the children enjoy them being in the classroom. Children's IFSP and IEP services can be carried out at Spainhour. As an Special Education Professional who has worked for many years in the Public School setting and with Private Early intervention, I am super impressed with the center. Spainhour allowed my children to learn along side others who may not have had the same abilities, but they learned from each other. The Teachers, Therapist, and directors, were super helpful with suggestion to help my children to meet their next milestone and giving me comfort when I was worried about my child's development.
When they changed the director everything changed. I noticed my child started wanting to stay at home little did I know he was getting hit by another child and he was being taught to say "no please don't hit me" yet the child kept hitting him and as I dropped him off holding his hand the child ran up to my child and smacked him in the face and ran away laughing..... I observed the teacher when my child grabbed on to me and said "mommy I want to go home" the Teacher was paying more attention to her phone, texting than the children in the class room my son got hit in the face by another child nothing was done about it the answer from the teacher was we teach the other kids to say don't hit me but do you think the other child is right for hitting them shouldn't they be punished and shouldn't there parents be notified and told if your child does this again they can be taken out of the daycare for a certain amount of time like a suspension...... Nope not at all and from the director was thats a phase special needs children go through mind you my child has been around many special needs children and my child also has a 2 special needs friends that he is always around not once have they hit my child. Let's just say that's the teachings of the child's environment at home parents have a lot to do when it comes to a child's actions. I am currently in school to work with special needs children not once have I got taught that it's normal for a special needs child to constantly hit another child laugh and run away and it's ok and the other parent wasn't notified of what there child is doing. The older teachers at the day care are great and certain new ones but a lot has changed since new director in place. The director could careless if you have a complaint to make and or if you want to change your child from classes she stated there is no guarantee that your child will not get hit. So almost 700 paid to the daycare doesn't guarantee my child's safety because a slap in the face can easily harm a 2 year old, head injuries, seizers so on can take place after a hit to the head. The teachers getting paid from that 700 bucks a month isn't a guarantee I can go to work and my child will not be ok at the end of the day that's basically it. So no I highly do not recommend this day care I took my child out and put him at a different day care with cameras come to find out two other students from the previous daycare where changed as well for similar reasons. I ran into there parents and they said the daycare has changed a lot I agree with them. Not worth it only a head ache. Highly not recommend