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2. Willowbrook State School - Wikipedia

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   Opened. 1947. Closed. 1987. Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000.

3. New York City Department of Education - Wikipedia

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   The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (more commonly known as New York City Public Schools) is the largest school system in the United States (and among the largest in the world), with ...

4. SINAI Special Needs Institute - Wikipedia

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   SINAI Special Needs Institute. Coordinates: 40.90181°N 73.99892°W. SINAI Schools is an organization based in the New York metropolitan area that provides education for children and young adults with special needs. SINAI is the only Jewish day school for children with special needs that has received accreditation from the Middle States ...

5. New York Institute for Special Education - Wikipedia

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   999 Pelham Parkway. The New York Institute for Special Education is a private nonprofit school in New York City. The school was founded in 1831 as a school for blind children by Samuel Wood, a Quaker philanthropist, Samuel Akerly, a physician, and John Dennison Russ, a philanthropist and physician. The school was originally named New York ...

6. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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   1975 – The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, PL 94-142, (renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990) became law in the U.S., and it declared that disabled children could not be excluded from public school because of their disability, and that school districts were required to provide special services to meet the ...

7. YAI: Seeing Beyond Disability - Wikipedia

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   4000. Website. www.yai.org. YAI, previously known as the Young Adult Institute, is an organization serving people with Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the United States. YAI launched as a pilot program at a small school in Brooklyn, New York, in February 1957. [1] The pilot program was run by co-founders Bert MacLeech and ...

8. New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities

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   The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is an executive agency in the state of New York, whose mission is to provide services and conduct research for those with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It is one of New York State’s largest agencies, with a mandate to provide ...

9. Aaron School - Wikipedia

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   Aaron School is a K–12 private special education school for children with learning disabilities, sensory and social challenges, located in New York City, United States, for students with average or above average cognitive ability. It provides a small, structured classroom setting with a multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary and strengths approach ...