Watch Me Shine is a comprehensive childcare program with three locations at:
85 State Street 676 Broadway 256 Summer Street
Ellsworth, ME Bangor, ME Dover-Foxcroft, ME
(207) 664-6175 (207) 990-0162 (207) 564-0333
About the Director
Story from The Ellsworth American Spring 2010:
Dozens of families in Eastern Maine have been helped by a family from North Carolina that arrived in Ellsworth five years ago. Tiffany Nowicki’s young son, Nathan, just three at the time of his family’s move, was missing the comprehensive therapy for autism that he had received in his previous community. So his mother used the model she knew to launch in Ellsworth the Watch Me Shine Developmental Preschool and In-Home Services. Nathan is nine now and mainstreamed in school. “Everything I have ever wanted for Nathan has happened,” Nowicki says. “He is the epitome of the success story.”
Word circulated about Watch Me Shine, which specializes in applied behavior analyis, developmental therapy (particurly DIR and Floortime) and special purpose programming for children ages birth to five years old. Today there are three locations for the program — in Ellsworth at 85 State Street, and in Bangor at 676 Broadway and Dover-Foxcroft at 256 Summer Street, where families asked for the services. Each site has dedicated managers, special education lead teachers, general eduation preschool teachers and ed techs I, II and III who work year-round, so they can track the young students’ progress year round.
Besides pre-school, Watch Me Shine provides Section 28 in-home services (for children birth through 15) between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nowicki and her staff continually are broadening their professional training. “We feel that other states are ahead of the curve with this developmental work, so we take a week annually for lead teachers and supervisors to go out-of-state for conferences and seminars to keep up with training.”
Tiffany is a certified early intervention special education teacher in the State of Maine. Tiffany is also a Certified DIR (Developmenal Individual-Difference Relationship) Professional. Tiffany's philosophies include Applied Behavior Analysis, DIR, Floortime, Sensory Integration and cognitive techniques.
