![]() Wardcliff is planning on collaborating with Michigan State's Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics as well as McLaren Health System for diagnostics. ![]() With all the new facilities, students are able to take a shot at whatever they like. The new autism center at Wardcliff elementary gives students the ability to work on their motor skills, get some exercise at the gym, and even go to the calming room to get some rest. We wanted to establish some things for teenagers and young adults with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities so I’m very excited," said Miller. "We figured it’d be good for students, especially young children, because they would be used to coming to a school as opposed to a more sterile setting," said Pat Miller, Supervisor at Wardcliff Abilities Center.Īfter years of planning, the abilities center moved into Wardcliff in March and started seeing students in May. The Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties found Wardcliff and thought it to be the perfect setting for their abilities center. ![]() "And that had one of the other impacts on the neighborhood is when they closed the school, we lost our precinct." "Because they opened it up again, Clerk Dreyfus was able to re-open it as our voting precinct," said Beavers. With the opening of the abilities center, the neighborhood has a lot more to look forward to. Not only did it create a quieter setting but the neighborhood lost more than just the school. ![]() "I think wherever, whether in a city or a neighborhood, when you have empty buildings that aren’t in use, they do tend to bring the neighborhood down," said Christine Beavers, Vice President of the Wardcliff Neighborhood Association. When Wardcliff Elementary shut down in 2010, it was once an area filled with laughing children and turned into a quiet, empty building, taking a toll on the community of the Wardcliff neighborhood. This facility might be new but it is already expanding and impacting the neighborhood. MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Wardcliff Elementary School has re-opened as the Wardcliff Abilities Center. ![]()
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