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The Morgan Center is located in the Plainview Cultural Development Center
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Welcome...
The Morgan Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to providing preschool age children who are undergoing treatment for cancer the opportunity to
interact and socialize, in a safe environment that stimulates cognitive and social development. Children on chemotherapy treatment have a suppressed immune system, and could otherwise risk infection and serious
illness by attending typical age appropriate preschool programs.
- There are close to 200 children under the age of 5 diagnosed with cancer each year on Long Island and the metropolitan area.
Children with cancer have a suppressed immune system due to a lowered white blood cell count from chemotherapy. For this reason, if they were to attend a typical preschool
they could risk exposure to life threatening infections, fevers, illnesses and childhood diseases.
Children undergoing chemotherapy treatment can be affected educationally by impaired attention, concentration and motor skills, as well as difficulty in the processing of
information. Chemotherapy treatment administered to children at a very young age can also cause post treatment learning disabilities.
If children are not given the opportunity of a pre-kindergarten learning experience, then they can be deprived of growing socially, intellectually, and emotionally. The importance
of preschools or learning centers is supported by the U.S. Department of Education. “Today, many parents enroll their children in some form of preschool, which means that
Kindergarten is no longer the child’s first experience with group educational programs. Many early childhood experts believe that children who have been involved in high
quality group care or nursery school are better prepared for formal schooling. There is substantial evidence of the short-term effects (e.g., an increased likelihood of completing
High School). The National Education goals stress the importance of access to quality early childhood programs.” (Access to Preschool Education, U.S. Department of
Education, Overview by the Condition of Education 1995, August 1995)
For more information email to nancy@themorgancenter.org
or call at (631)206-1341
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