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Easterseals provides programs designed to help children and adults learn—and often re-learn—basic functions, master skills needed to develop and thrive, and be sharp and active as they age.

Making Our Lives Accessible

Accessibility means breaking down barriers in our communities -- and the wider world -- to ensure everyone has opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their community.

If you don't have a disability, you may not think twice about the curb cuts you cross on your way to work, closed captions that appear on your favorite TV shows, or signs marked “handicap accessible,” but to people with disabilities and their families, these are accessibility features that are vital for full inclusion in society.

Learn more about accessibility and the ways in which we're building a more accessible world. Our national website has information on accessibility in employment, public spaces, transportation, healthcare, technology, housing, and safety tips for emergencies and evacuations.

In New York State, we provide educational services to children with disabilities at several locations

Resources for caregivers, including for military families, are also available here.

FERPA - The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FERPA is the federal law that gives parents the right to access their child’s education records, the right to have their child’s education record amended and some control over the release of personally identifiable information found in the child’s education record. When the child turns 18 years or enters post-secondary education, these rights transfer to the child. 
View the full policy.

Educational Services in New York

 Throughout New York State, we offer educational services to children with disabilities. See the web page for each location for more details.

Our Bronx Child Development Center provides preschool special education to close to 200 young children with disabilities. At the Bronx Child Development Center, children ages 3-5 receive Individualized Education Plans and customized speech, physical, occupational, and play therapies to ensure their continued development.

Project Discovery in Port Jervis offers a fully integrated educational program for preschoolers which includes special education services, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and counseling within an integrated educational environment for children with special needs as well as those without.

Project Explore in Valhalla focuses on Cognitive Development, Social Development and Language Development through the After School, Integrated Preschool and Inclusive Child Day Care Programs.

Project Excel in Monticello offers integrated preschool classes with “push-in services” for children ages 2.9 years to 5 years of age.

The Kessler Center in Rochester is an approved private special education (853) school offering both residential (CRP) and day placements for students with developmental disabilities.

Project Soar in Carmel offers an educational program for preschoolers which includes special education services, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and counseling within an integrated educational environment for children with special needs as well as those without.






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