The STAR Center of Jackson, Tennessee
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The STAR Center is a model demonstration, resource and training center dedicated to ensuring that all individuals with disabilities or other special needs maximize their potential for independence and achieve their personal goals of employment, effective learning and independent living through assistive technology, assistive aids and support services. When their two youngest children lost
their sight in the late 1980's, Margaret Doumitt and her husband Chuck searched
exhaustively for local services to help their children cope with their
blindness. Finding none, they resolved to ensure that not only would their children
have those services, but that every other child and adult within their reach would have them also.
Months later, The STAR Center was founded and has grown from an all-volunteer group of
parents into a training facility with a professional staff numbering more
than 60.
The STAR Center provides access to life changing technology services, creative therapy services, employment services, and support services. The STAR Center serves children and adults with disabilities, regardless of their age or ability to pay, as well as parents, employers, and professionals in health, education, and rehabilitation.
The STAR Center opens new windows of opportunities to children and adults with disabilities that are many times considered impossible, and never turns anyone away due to their disability. The highly specialized staff provides individualized solutions to help achieve the personal goals of children and adults with disabilities, and
is a place where limitations turn into limitless possibilities, a place of hope and new horizons.
Browse our site to learn more about the phenomenal growth of this
organization and the impact it has had on people with disabilities
throughout West Tennessee.
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