OCCUPATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER

The Occupational Development Center is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1948, eventually being renamed the Child Development School (1950) and the the Child Development Center (1951). The concept for establishing the Child Development Center, was to provide tutorial instruction to children with developmental disabilities in an attempt to assimilate them into the community culture. The founders were Marian R. Headrick, whose son had developmental disabilities, and Olivia Stoner, whose nephew also had developmental disabilities. These two women rejected the agonizing alternative of institutionalizing these children, while also refusing to believe that the boys were "uneducable."... Here at the Occupational Development Center we are in the business of providing independence. We do this by providing vocational training and employment services to Lancaster County adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). When one of our Program Participants […]... In..

Primary location: Lancaster United States