The Loyola Clinical Centers is partnering with the Loyola Early Learning Center, a Jesuit preschool in downtown Baltimore, to provide speech-language services to the students and trainings for teachers and parents. A grant from the Wright Family Foundation enabled this partnership.

Two mornings a week, Loyola Clinical Centers (LCC) graduate students and a faculty member go to the preschool to screen and teach students language and pre-literacy skills. In addition to these screenings, the graduate students also train teachers and parents what to look for when it comes to speech, language, and pre-literacy development – something unique that the LCC offers to the Loyola Early Learning Center (LELC) based on a demand from parents and teachers.

The LELC, which is associated with St. Ignatius Catholic Church, was started by Rev. William J. Watters, S.J., president of the LELC, and started admitting students in the fall of 2017. Tuition for each student is paid for by a sponsor. The school will be at full capacity in the fall of 2019, with three classes split by age group – 2-year-old, 3-year-old, and 4-year-old.

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