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Carmine and Phyllis
Visone, owners of the Home Away From Home
Academy, Aberdeen, hold a deeply rooted belief
that, given the right tools, balanced with the
right kind of play and guidance and then
delivered during the right stages of development
- children would grow into adults who were not
only “smart” academically, but smart in a life
sense - children who would grow up to lead
productive, abundant lives. Prior to this, the
widely held belief was that the early childhood
years were strictly about fun, until children
could be enrolled in “real” school. These now
passé studies claimed young children forgot what
they learned. The Visone’s philosophy is a
common sense approach to early childhood
education that happens to be extraordinary - it
considers the whole child at every turn.
As they realized
their method was unquestionably successful, the
next part of completing their dream became
clear: putting it into a book, The Visone
Method: The New Era of Childhood Education,
so everyone involved with young children could
practice it. This book is the fruition of that
very admirable dream, bringing it full circle.
The Visone Method
hits the nail on the head – and has the research
to back it up. A high percentage of these
children go on to be invited into GATE (Gifted
and Talented Education) programs. They believe
ages between infancy and six are vitally
important years where perhaps as much as 50
percent of lifelong learning takes place.
The main purpose of
this book is to give parents and teachers a
complete and new understanding of how a child’s
learning develops in the early years. The
Visone’s have enthusiasm, integrity and love for
what they teach. They have been awarded the
Publisher’s Choice Award for "The Visone
Method".
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