Easter Seals Disability Services

Child Development Centers
in the Tampa Bay area

Easter Seals offers several inclusive developmental child development centers serving typically developing children and children with disabilities, special needs, and/or developmental delays.  Watch this brief video to learn more:

Murray Child Development Center
The Murray Child Development Center offers early care and education, early intervention, therapy evaluation and services and family support to children of all abilities and their families. We serve children from six weeks to six years of age.

This inclusive, developmental preschool provides educational, childcare, therapeutic, and family support services to children of all abilities and their families. Many of the children who attend this child development center have special needs and/or disabilities.  The center cares for children with conditions such as spina bifida, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, birth defects and/or developmental delays in a full day developmental program.  Physical, speech and occupational therapy are provided on site to each child on an individual basis based on needs identified in an evaluation.

Murray Child Development Center
2403 E. Henry Avenue
Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 236-5589

Child Developmental Centers at Hillsborough County Schools
Easter Seals also operates several child development centers in partnership with the School District of Hillsborough County for teen parents while they are attending classes.  The program is designed for teen parents to be able to continue their schooling while their infant and toddlers (two weeks to 36 months of age) are cared for in a quality early care and education setting.

Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school (only one-third receive a high school diploma) and only 1.5% have a college degree by age 30. Teen mothers are more likely to end up on welfare (nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare).  The children of teenage mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at greater risk of abuse and neglect.  It is critical we break this cycle.

In addition to providing developmental early education to this high risk group of infants and toddlers, Easter Seals staff provides support and guidance to help the teen parents balancing their school and parenting responsibilities.  Easter Seals’ therapists provide guidance and advice to our teaching staff and teen parents on proper infant care and nutrition and provide consultations for children who display more serious developmental delays.

 
At all of our child development centers, our goal is to maximize each child’s development so they are prepared to enter kindergarten, be successful and need no further special intervention.  This is done through a developmentally appropriate curriculum and environment, warm and caring adult/child interactions, therapeutic services, family support services when necessary, and a team approach that emphasizes independence and family strengths. 

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Links to Other Tampa Bay Services:

          Autism Spectrum Disorder Programs
          Home Based Early Intervention
          Pediatric Therapy- Physical, Occupational & Speech
          SafetyNet Personal Emergency Response Service
          Parent Support Groups