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2. 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 ...

3. Willowbrook State School - Wikipedia

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   Information. 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.

4. 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 ...

5. Normalization (people with disabilities) - Wikipedia

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   Disability. "The normalization principle means making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society." [1] Normalization is a rigorous theory of human services that can be applied to disability services. [2]

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

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   1889 – Ugly laws were enacted in Denver, Colorado and Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889. 1894 – An ugly law was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. 1891 – An ugly law was enacted for the state of Pennsylvania in 1891. This law contained language applying to cognitive disability as well as physical disability.

7. 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 ...